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Often appears with: siege and fortification · political legitimacy and consent · nisibis · jovian’s camp outside the city · execution by stoning-down the well · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1)
Fame outruns the couriers, Nisibis fears losing its city, then Jovian plants a camp outside Nisibis and refuses to lodge in the palace; after a hostile turn, Jovian’s secretary is killed at the siege.
his own inclination or from being won over by their prayers, the emperor might consent to keep their city in its existing state, as the strongest bulwark of the east. 15. While different reports were flying about of what had taken place, the scanty supplies which I have spoken of as having been brought, were consumed, and necessity might have driven the men to eat one another, if the flesh of the animals slain had n…