03-25-2014, 05:37 PM
For his Persian campaign in AD363, Julian assembled a fleet of 1100 ships to sail down the Euphrates and then, via the Naarmalcha canal, into the Tigris. Of these, 1000 were transports carrying provisions, weapons and siege equipment, 50 were warships and 50 were for making bridges (Amm. 23.3.9). Nearing the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, he ordered the strongest of the transports to be unloaded and shipped 80 soldiers on each (octogenis - Rolfe, in the Loeb edition, translates this as 800!)(Amm. 24.6.4).
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
