Book 25
9.11
In fact, the ancient records teach us that treaties made in extreme necessity with shameful conditions, even when both parties had taken oath in set terms, were at once annulled by a renewal of war. For example, when in days of old our legions were sent under the yoke at the Caudine Forks in SamniumCf. Val. Max. ii. 8, 4 an ; when Albinus in Numidia devised a shameful peaceSee Sallust, Jug. 38. ; and when Mancinus, the author of a disgracefully hasty treaty, was surrendered to the people of Numantia.See xiv. 11, 32; Florus, i. 34, 4 ff.
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So then, after the inhabitants had been withdrawn, and the city had been handed over, the tribune Constantius was sent to deliver the strongholds, with the surrounding country, to the Persian grandees. Then Procopius was sent with the remains of Julian, in order to inter him, as he had directed when still alive,Cf. xxiii. 2, 5. in the suburb of Tarsus.
9.13
Procopius set out to fulfil his mission,Or perhaps, on the analogy of exsequiae, on his mournful errand, or for the funeral. but immediately after burying the body he disappeared and in spite of the most careful search could not be found anywhere,He perhaps wished to escape the fate of Jovianus; see 8, 18. until long afterwards he suddenly appeared at Constantinople, clad in the purple.
