sters, and made a gallant
resistance to the mounted cuirassiers.

3. Then the legions of the Jovii and Victores coming up to aid their
comrades, who were in distress, also slew two elephants and a great
number of the enemy's troops. And on our left wing three most gallant
men were slain, Julian, Macrobius, and Maximus, all tribunes of the
legions which were then the chief of the whole army.

4. When they were buried as well as circumstances permitted, as night
was drawing on, and as we were pressing forward with all speed towards a
fort called Sumere, the dead body of Anatolius was recognized and buried
with a hurried funeral. Here also we were rejoined by sixty soldiers and
a party of the guards of the palace, whom we have mentioned as having
taken refuge in a fort called Vaccatum.

5. Then on the following day we pitched our camp in a valley in as
favourable a spot as the nature of the ground permitted, surrounding it
with a rampart like a wall, with sharp stakes fixed all round like so
many swords, with the exception of one wide entrance.

6. And when the enemy saw this they attacked us with all kinds of
missiles from their thickets, reproaching us also as traitors and
murderers of an excellent prince. For they had heard by the vague report
of some deserters that Julian had fallen by the weapon of a Roman.

7. And presently, while this was going on, a body of cavalry ventured to
force their way in by the Praetorian gate, and to advance almost up to
the emperor's tent. But they were vigorously repulsed with the loss of
many of their men killed and wounded.

8. Quitting this camp, the next night we reached a place called Charcha,
where we were safe, because the artificial mounds of the river had been
broken to prevent the Saracens from overrunning Armenia, so that no one
was able to harass our lines as they had done before.

9. Then on the 1st of July we marched thirty furlongs more, and came to
a city called Dura, where our baggage-horses were so jaded, that their
drivers, being mostly recruits, marched on foot till they were hemmed in
by a troop of Saracens; and they would all have been killed if some
squadrons of our light cavalry had not gone to their assistance in their
distress.

10. We were exposed to the hostility of these Saracens because Julian
had forbidden that the presents and gratuities, to which they had been
accustomed, should be given to them; and when they complained to him,
they were only to