The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 7
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 7
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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tiveor pretence of a Roman W2ff(i36); the Huns and Arabs marched under the Perfiatk fiandard, and the fortifications of Annenis and Mefopotamia were, at that time, in a rui- nous or imperfed: condition. The emperor returned his thanks to the governor and peo- ple of Marty rc^x)lis, .for the prompt furrendo: of a city which could not be fucc^fefuliy de- fended, and the conflagration of Theodc^o- polis might juftify the conduft of their pru- . dent neighbours. Amida fuflained a loqg and defbrudiv...e fiege : at the end of three months^ the lofs of fifty thoufand of the foldiers of Cabades was not balanced by any profpeft of fuccefs, and it was in vaiii that the Magi de- duced (135) See the fate of PhJrouz or Perezes, and its confeqnences, in Procopim (Perfic. I. i. c. ^•'^.)y who may be compared with the fragments of oriental hiftory (d'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient, p. 35 1, sfnd Texeira, Hiftory of Perfia, tranflated or abridged by Srevens, 1, i.e. 3a. p. 130^— 13^.)- The cha-onoiogy is ably sJcertained by Af- feman (Bibliot.
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