Book 19
9.1
But the Persians, since the rapidly approaching end of autumn and the rising of the unfavourable constellation of the KidsThree stars in the constellation Auriga; they rise at the beginning of October and bring stormy weather; cf. Horace, Odes, iii. 1, 28. prevented them from marching farther inland, were thinking of returning to their own country with their prisoners and their booty.
9.2
But in the midst of the slaughter and pillage of the destroyed city Count Aelianus and the tribunes, by whose efficient service the walls had been so long defended and the losses of the Persians increased, were shamefully gibbeted; Jacobus and Caesius, paymasters of the commander of the cavalry, and other officers of the bodyguard, were led off with their hands bound behind their backs; and those who had come from across the TigrisI.e. Persian deserters. were hunted down with extreme care and butchered to a man, highest and lowest without distinction.
9.3
But the wife of Craugasius, who retained her chastity inviolate and was honoured as a woman of rank, grieved that she was likely to see another part of the world without her husband, although from present indications she had reason to hope for a loftier fortune.
