Book 27
12.9
This unexpected treachery and the unforeseen slaughter of the Persians aroused reasons for frightful hatred between ourselves and Sapor, which was made still worse because Papa, son of Arsaces,See § 3, above. at the persuasion of his mother, had departed with a few followers from the fortified townArtogerassa; see § 5, above. and been received by the emperor Valens, who advised that he stay a while at Neocaesarea, a wellknown city of Pontus Polemoniacus,A Roman province, a division of the Diocese of Pontus; see Map 1, Vol. I. where he was to receive liberal support and education. This act of clemency encouraged Cylaces and Arrabannes to send envoys to Valens to ask that he aid them and give them the said Papa as their king.
12.10
The aid, however, was denied them for the time, but Papa was sent back to Armenia through the general Terentius,Cf. xxx. 1, 2, 4. that he might rule the land for a time, but without any emblems of royal rank; a condition which was complied with for a legitimate reason, namely, that we might not be charged with breaking the treaty and violating the peace.
