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6.8
Nevertheless, since scouts, and deserters agreeing with them, most persistently declared that the enemy were pushing all their preparations with hot haste, while the manikinSabinianus: see xviii. 5, 5; 7, 7; and for his small size, 6, 7, above. His inaction is vividly expressed by oscitante. yawned, we hastily marched to Nisibis,A city of Mesopotamia, in Mygdonia, surrendered to the Persians in the time of Jovian; modern Nisibin. to prepare what was useful, lest the Persians, masking their design of a siege, might surprise the city when off its guard.
6.9
And while within the walls the things that required haste were being pushed vigorously, smoke and gleaming fires constantly shone from the Tigris on past Castra MaurorumSee also xxv. 7, 9. It lay north of Nisibis and was called by the Arabic geographers by a name meaning pagus mororum, or the place of mulberries, of which Maurorum seems to be a corruption. Sisara is a neighbouring fortress. and Sisara and all the neighbouring country as far as the city, in greater number than usual and in a continuous line, clearly showing that the enemy’s bands of plunderers had burst forth and crossed the river.
