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When Valens had returned thence by rapid marches to Ancyra and learned that LupicinusAppointed commander of the infantry (magister militum) by Jovian in the Orient, probably the man mentioned in xx. 1, 2; 4, 3, 9; 9, 9. He did good service against Procopius and was made consul in the following year. with a force not to be despised was drawing near from the Orient, his hopes for better success were aroused, and he sent his best general ArintheusCf. xxv. 5, 2; 7, to attack the enemy.
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When Arintheus reached Dadastana, the station where, as we have said,Cf. xxv. 10, 12. Jovian died, he suddenly saw Hyperechius and his forces opposed to him; he had before been merely in charge of the commander’s supplies (that is, a servant of his belly and gullet), but Procopius had entrusted him as a friend with the command of a band of auxiliaries. And scorning to overcome in battle so despicable a man, relying on his authority and his imposing stature, Arintheus ordered the enemy themselves to put their leader in irons; and thus this shadow of a commander was taken prisoner by the hands of his own men.
