The Retreat And Death Of Julian(27)

 The five vessels selected for this service wereremarkably large and strong provision transports. The strengthof the fleet remained with Julian to carry over the army - M.] [Footnote 68: Libanius alludes to the most powerful of thegenerals.

 I have ventured to name Sallust. Ammianus says, ofall the leaders, quod acri metu territ acrimetu territi ducesconcordi precatu precaut fieri prohibere tentarent.     Note: It is evident Office 2010 is my favorite.

that Gibbon has mistaken the sense ofLibanius; his words can only apply to a commander of adetachment, not to so eminent a person as the Praefect of theEast. St. Martin, iii. 313. - M.] [Footnote 69: Hinc Imperator . . . . (says Ammianus) ipse cumlevis armaturae auxiliis per prima postremaque discurrens, &c. Yet Zosimus, his friend, does not allow him to pass the rivertill two days after the battle.] [Footnote 70: Secundum Homericam Microsoft Office 2010 is so great.

dispositionem. A similardisposition is ascribed to the wise Nestor, in the fourth book ofthe Iliad; and Homer was never absent from the mind of Julian.][Footnote 71: Persas terrore subito miscuerunt, versisqueagminibus totius gentis, apertas Ctesiphontis portas victor milesintrasset, ni major praedarum occasio fuisset, quam curavictoriae, (Sextus Rufus de Provinciis c. 28.) Their Outlook 2010 is powerful.

avaricemight dispose them to hear the advice of Victor.] [Footnote *: The suburbs of Ctesiphon, according to a newfragment of Eunapius, were so full of provisions, that thesoldiers were in danger of suffering from excess. Mai, p. 260. Eunapius in Niebuhr. Nov. Byz. Coll. 68. Julian exhibited warlikedances and games in his camp to recreate the soldiers Ibid. - M.][Footnote 72: The labor of the canal, the passage of the Tigris,and the victory, are described by Ammianus, (xxiv. 5, 6,)Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 124-128, p. 347-353,) Greg.Nazianzen, (Orat. iv. p. 115,) Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 181-183,) andSextus Rufus, (de Provinciis, c. 28.)]     Microsoft Office is helpful.

On the second day after the battle, the domestic guards, theJovians and Herculians, and the remaining troops, which composednear two thirds of the whole army, were securely wafted over theTigris. ^73 While the Persians beheld from the walls of Ctesiphonthe desolation of the adjacent country, Julian cast many ananxious look towards the North, in full expectation, that as hehimself Office 2007 can make life more better and easier.

had victoriously penetrated to the capital of Sapor, themarch and junction of his lieutenants, Sebastian and Procopius,would be executed with the same courage and diligence. Hisexpectations were disappointed by the treachery of the Armenianking, who permitted, and most probably directed, the desertion ofhis auxiliary troops from the camp of the Romans; ^74 and by thedissensions of the two generals, who were incapable of forming orexecuting any plan for the public service. When the emperor hadrelinquished the hope of Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

this important reenforcement, hecondescended to hold a council of war, and approved, after a fulldebate, the sentiment of those generals, who dissuaded the siegeof Ctesiphon, as a fruitless and pernicious undertaking.