eisaisi keleuthois
Nauten epeirou, pezoporon pelagous.+

_Thus translated in Bohn's 'Greek Anthology,' p. 25_:--

Him, who reversed the laws great Nature gave,
Sail'd o'er the continent and walk'd the wave,
Three hundred spears from Sparta's iron plain
Have stopp'd. Oh blush, ye mountains and thou main!

[141] The probability is that all these names are corrupt. Ammianus's
ignorance of the relative bearings of countries makes it difficult to
decide what they ought to be. If the proper reading of the last name be,
as Valesius thinks, Sarbaletes, that is the name given by Ptolemy to a
part of the Red Sea. A French translator of the last century considers
the Gulf of Armenia a portion of the Caspian Sea.

[142] The Ebro.

[143] The Guadalquivir.

[144] Ammianus seems to distinguish between the Hyrcanian and Caspian
Sea, which are only different names for the same sea or inland lake.

[145] A name not very unlike Nejid, to this day the most celebrated Arab
breed.

[146] There is evidently some corruption here; there is no such Greek
word as Machagistia.

[147] Il. xiii. 10.

[148] A kind of gladiator.

BOOK XXIV.

ARGUMENT.

I. Julian invades Assyria with his army; receives the surrender of
Anatha, a fort on the Euphrates, and burns it.--II. Having made
attempts on other fortresses and towns, he burns some which were
deserted, and receives the surrender of Pirisabora, and burns
it.--III. On account of his successes, he promises his soldiers one
hundred denarii a man; and as they disdain so small a donation, he
in a modest oration recalls them to a proper feeling.--IV. The town
of Maogamalcha is stormed by the Romans, and rased to the
ground.--V. The Romans storm a fort of great strength, both in its
situation and fortifications, and burn it.--VI. Julian defeats the
Persians, slays two thousand five hundred of them, with the loss of
hardly seventy of his own men; and in a public assembly presents
many of his soldiers with crowns.--VII. Being deterred from laying
siege to Ctesiphon, he rashly orders all his boats to be burnt, and
retreats from the river.--VIII. As he was neither able to make
bridges, nor to be joined by a portion of his forces, he determines
to return by Corduena.

I.

A.D. 363.

Sec. 1. After having ascertained the alacrity of his army, which with
ardour and unanimity declared wi