Kitap 25
6.10
We found these Saracens hostile for the reason that they had been prevented by Julian’s order from receiving pay and numerous gifts,To buy peace from them and prevent their raids. as in times past, and when they complained to him, had received the simple reply that a warlike and watchful emperor had steel and not gold.
6.11
In this place the persistence of the Persians delayed us for four days. For when we began to march, they followed us, and by frequent onsets forced us to turn back; if we halted to do battle with them, they little by little retired and harassed us by continual delays. But now (since to those who are in fear of the worst even false reports are commonly welcome) the rumour was circulated that the frontiers of our possessions were not far distant; whereupon the army, with mutinous bluster, demanded that they be allowed to cross the Tigris.
6.12
The emperor, as well as the generals, opposed them, and pointing to the river, which was in flood, since the dog-star had already risen, begged them not to trust themselves to the dangerous currents, declaring that very many could not swim, and adding that scattered bands of the enemy had beset the banks of the swollen stream in various places.
