Kitap 24
5.2
There was also in that same region an extensive round tract, enclosed by a strong fence and containing the wild beasts that were kept for the king’s entertainment: lions with flowing manes, boars with bristling shoulders, and bears savage beyond all manner of madness (as they usually are in Persia), and other choice animals of enormous size; our cavalry burst the fastenings of the gates and butchered them all with hunting-spears and showers of missiles.
5.3
This district is fruitful in fields of grain and in cultivation.The text is very uncertain. There was probably a lacuna between qui and bus. Not far from it is Coche, which they call Seleucia; there a camp was hastily fortified, and the entire army because of the convenience of water and fodder rested for two days. But the emperor went on ahead with some light-armed skirmishers, in order to visit a deserted city destroyed in former days by the emperor CarusM. Aurelius Carus, emperor from 282-283. Cf. Eutro. pius, ix. 8. ; in this there is an ever flowing spring forming a great pool which empties into the Tigris. There he saw the impaled bodies of many kinsmen of the man who (as I have already said)Cf. 2, 21, above. had surrendered the city of Pirisabora.
