reciprocally delivered to secure the performance of the conditions.
[111]

[Footnote 109: Sextus Rufus (de Provinciis, c. 29) embraces a poor
subterfuge of national vanity. Tanta reverentia nominis Romani fuit, ut
a Persis primus de pace sermo haberetur. ---He is called Junius by John
Malala; the same, M. St. Martin conjectures, with a satrap of Gordyene
named Jovianus, or Jovinianus; mentioned in Ammianus Marcellinus, xviii.
6.--M.]

[Footnote 109a: The Persian historians couch the message of Shah-pour
in these Oriental terms: "I have reassembled my numerous army. I am
resolved to revenge my subjects, who have been plundered, made captives,
and slain. It is for this that I have bared my arm, and girded my loins.
If you consent to pay the price of the blood which has been shed, to
deliver up the booty which has been plundered, and to restore the city
of Nisibis, which is in Irak, and belongs to our empire, though now in
your possession, I will sheathe the sword of war; but should you refuse
these terms, the hoofs of my horse, which are hard as steel, shall
efface the name of the Romans from the earth; and my glorious cimeter,
that destroys like fire, shall exterminate the people of your empire."
These authorities do not mention the death of Julian. Malcolm's Persia,
i. 87.--M.]

[Footnote 109b: The Paschal chronicle, not, as M. St. Martin says,
supported by John Malala, places the mission of this ambassador before
the death of Julian. The king of Persia was then in Persarmenia,
ignorant of the death of Julian; he only arrived at the army subsequent
to that event. St. Martin adopts this view, and finds or extorts support
for it, from Libanius and Ammianus, iii. 158.--M.]

[Footnote 110: It is presumptuous to controvert the opinion of Ammianus,
a soldier and a spectator. Yet it is difficult to understand how the
mountains of Corduene could extend over the plains of Assyria, as low
as the conflux of the Tigris and the great Zab; or how an army of sixty
thousand men could march one hundred miles in four days. Note: *
Yet this appears to be the case (in modern maps: ) the march is the
difficulty.--M.]

[Footnote 110a: Sapor availed himself, a few years after, of the
dissolution of the alliance between the Romans and the Armenians. See
St. M. iii. 163.--M.]

[Footnote 111: The treaty of Dura is recorded with grief or indignation
by Ammianus, (xxv. 7,) Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 142, p. 364,)
Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 190,