Kitap 25
8.5
Relieved now from this anxiety and hastening on by forced marches, we approached Hatra, an old city lying in the midst of a desert and long since abandoned. The warlike emperors TrajanDio. lxviii. 31, 2. and Severus tried at various times to destroy it, but almost perished with their armies; I have related these acts also in telling of their careers.
8.6
Here we learned that on a plain extending for seventy miles through dry regions only water that was salt and ill-smelling could be found, and nothing to eat except southernwood, wormwood, dragonwort and other plants of the most wretched sort. Therefore the vessels which we carried with us were filled with fresh water, and by killing camels and other pack animals we provided ourselves with food, unwholesomeBüchele thinks the text means which eventually cost us dear, since they lost the use of these animals. though it was.
