Roman-tigris crossing

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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · nisibis · mesopotamian retreat · jovian’s rule · empire and the rule of provinces · battle and tactics

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 secondary

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)
Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To > Chapter XXIV: The Retreat And Death Of Julian.—Part V. (6/11)

After Jovian’s treaty, Romans cross the Tigris despite shortages and danger, suffer extreme thirst and hunger in Mesopotamian plains, and finally rest near Nisibis as Jovian secures command and allegiance for his rule.

115 (return) [ The *Cyropædia* is vague and languid; the *Anabasis* circumstance and animated. Such is the eternal difference between fiction and truth.] As the price of his disgraceful concessions, the emperor might perhaps have stipulated, that the camp of the hungry Romans should be plentifully supplied; 116 and that they should be permitted to pass the Tigris on the bridge which was constructed…