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[12] To these conditions there was added another which was destructive and impious, namely, that after the completion of these agreements, Arsaces, our steadfast and faithful friend 1 should never, if he asked it, be given help against the Persians. This was contrived with a double purpose, that a man who at the emperor's order 2 had devastated Chiliocomum might be punished, and that the opportunity might be left of presently invading Armenia without opposition. The result was that later this same Arsaces was taken alive, 3 and that the Parthians amid various dissensions and disturbances seized a great tract of Armenia bordering on Media, along with Artaxata.

1 Cf. note to xxiv. 7, 8.

2 Cf. xxiii. 3, 6.

3 Cf. xxvii. 12, 3.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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