e a man of courage,
or else she sware by the gods of their royal family that she would
certainly dissolve her marriage with him. Upon which, partly because he
could not bear the daily trouble of her taunts, and partly because he
was afraid of her insolence, lest she should in earnest dissolve their
marriage, he unwillingly, and against his inclinations, got together
again as great an army as he could, and marched along with them, as
himself thinking it a thing not to be borne any longer, that he, a
Parthian, should owe his preservation to the Jews, when they had been
too hard for him in the war.

7. But as soon as Anileus understood that Mithridates was marching with
a great army against him, he thought it too ignominious a thing to tarry
about the lakes, and not to take the first opportunity of meeting
his enemies, and he hoped to have the same success, and to beat their
enemies as they did before; as also he ventured boldly upon the like
attempts. Accordingly, he led out his army, and a great many more joined
themselves to that army, in order to betake themselves to plunder the
people, and in order to terrify the enemy again by their numbers. But
when they had marched ninety furlongs, while the road had been through
dry [and sandy] places, and about the midst of the day, they were become
very thirsty; and Mithridates appeared, and fell upon them, as they were
in distress for want of water, on which account, and on account of the
time of the day, they were not able to bear their weapons. So Anileus
and his men were put to an ignominious rout, while men in despair were
to attack those that were fresh and in good plight; so a great slaughter
was made, and many ten thousand men fell. Now Anileus, and all that
stood firm about him, ran away as fast as they were able into a wood,
and afforded Mithridates the pleasure of having gained a great victory
over them. But there now came in to Anileus a conflux of bad men,
who regarded their own lives very little, if they might but gain some
present ease, insomuch that they, by thus coming to him, compensated the
multitude of those that perished in the fight. Yet were not these men
like to those that fell, because they were rash, and unexercised in war;
however, with these he came upon the villages of the Babylonians, and
a mighty devastation of all things was made there by the injuries that
Anileus did them. So the Babylonians, and those that had already been
in the war, sent to Ne