Kitap 28
6.9
The envoys came to the court, and being given audience with the emperor, stated orally what they had suffered; and they presented decrees, containing a full account of the whole affair. Since the emperor, after reading these, neither believed the communication of the marshal, who countenanced the misdeeds of Romanus, nor the envoys, who gave contrary testimony, a full investigation was promised, but it was put off, in the way in which supreme powersCf. xxix. 5, 2, end. are usually deceived among the distractions to which the powerful are liable.
6.10
While the people of Tripolis were long in astate of anxiety and suspense, looking for some aid from the emperor’s military support, the hordes of barbarians again came up, given confidence by what had happened before; and after overrunning the territory of Lepcis and OeaModern Tripoli. with death and devastation, went away again, laden with vast heaps of booty; a number of decurionsLocal magistrates and officials. were put to death, among whom the former high-priest Rusticianus and the aedile Nicasius were conspicuous.
6.11
But the reason why this inroad could not be prevented was that, although at the request of the envoys the charge of military affairs also had been entrusted to the governor Ruricius,Cf. xxvii. 9, 3. it was soon afterwards transferred to Romanus.
