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7.8
If the emperor, before letting these envoys go, had used this space of time to withdraw gradually from the enemy’s territories, he could surely have reached the protection of Corduena,Cf. xviii. 6, 20; the distance was fourteen geographic, or nautical, miles. a rich region belonging to us, and distant only a hundred miles from the spot where all this took place.
7.9
Now the king obstinately demanded the lands which (as he said) were his and had been taken from him long ago by Maximianus; but, in fact, as the negotiations showed, he required as our ransom five provinces on the far side of the Tigris: Arzanena,In Armenia. Moxoëna,In Armenia. and Zabdicena,In Mesopotamia. as well as RehimenaUnknown. and Corduena with fifteen fortresses, besides Nisibis,A strong city thrice vainly besieged by the Persians. SingaraCf. xviii. 5, 7; xx. 6. and Castra Maurorum,xviii. 6, 9. a very important stronghold.
7.10
And whereas it would have been better to fight ten battles than give up any one of these, the band of flatterers pressed upon the timid emperor, harping upon the dreaded name of Procopius,Julian had named Procopius as his successor; see xxiii. 3, 2. and declaring that if he returnedHe was in hiding, probably at Chalcedon; cf. xxvi. 6, 3-5. on learning of the death of Julian, he would with the fresh troops under his command easily and without opposition make himself emperor.
