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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · zeuxis · xenoetas · tamsapor · supply, logistics, and encampment · sisauranum fortress · siege of seleucia · siege logistics · molon revolt · marsyas gorge · john of cappadocia
Usually: narrative (4) · betrayal (2) · crisis of belief (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
A Roman defector, Antoninus, buys a farm near the Tigris to evade soldiers, crosses at night into Persian territory, and joins secret talks with Tamsapor to aid Sapor’s war plans.
devoted to the interests of his adversary; he conceived the audacious design of crossing over to the Persians with his wife and children, and his whole numerous family of relations. 3. And to elude the observation of the soldiers at their different stations, he bought for a small price a farm in Hiaspis, a district on the banks of the Tigris. And, relying on this pretext, since no one would venture to ask why a land…
Antiochus III shifts from the Coele-Syria plan to confronting Molon, sending the Achaean Xenoetas, marching through Apameia and the Marsyas gorge, and withdrawing when Xenoetas is defeated.
[Sidenote: Molon takes up arms.] +45.+ Being masters, then, of a territory of proportions worthy of a kingdom, his great power had made Molon from the first a formidable enemy: but when the royal generals appeared to have abandoned the country to him, and his own forces were elated at the successful issue of their first hopes, the terror which he inspired became absolute, and he was believed by the Asiatics to be ir…
Antiochus marches through winter to Libba, counsels on routing to confront Molon near Babylon, adopts Zeuxis’ plan to cross the Tigris, and proceeds toward Apollonia.
[Sidenote: B.C. 221-220. Antiochus advances through Mesopotamia.] +51.+ When Antiochus had reached the Euphrates, and had taken over the force stationed there, he once more started on his march and got as far as Antioch, in Mygdonia, about mid-winter, and there remained until the worst of the winter should be over. Thence after a stay of forty days he advanced to Libba. Molon was now in the neighbourhood of Babylon:…
Antonina and Photius’s conflict escalates while Rome’s East politics unfold: after Antonina deceives John of Cappadocia through repeated oaths, Belisarius retreats near the Roman frontier due to Antonina’s arrival, narrowing his strategic campaign.
Belisarius should swear fidelity to him by the most sacred oaths known to Christians, and they bound themselves never to abandon each other, even at the cost of their lives. For the present, they both agreed that it would be unwise to make any attempt; and they resolved to wait until Antonina had left Byzantium to join them, and Theodosius had returned to Ephesus, which would give Photius the opportunity of going th…