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“In the seventy-three days during which he had been blockading Amida, he had lost thirty thousand soldiers” Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus · observation
Ammianus contrasts Antoninus and Craugasius and shifts to Sapor’s private dread after the fall of Amida, including figures for Persian and Roman losses over a 73-day siege.
"Longo proximus intervallo."[107] 8. For Antoninus was eminent both for genius and experience in affairs, and had useful counsels for every enterprise that could be proposed, while Craugasius was of a less subtle nature, though also very celebrated. And all these events took place within a short time after the fall of Amida. 9. But the king, though showing no marks of anxiety on his countenance, and though he appea…