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a neighboring shelter. But the emperor Trajan, having heard these things, praised the manliness of the Antiochene citizens; and when the ships of his army arrived from Seleucia, they went up to sacred Daphne to pray and offer sacrifice at the temple of Apollo. And he made known to the Antiochenes from Daphne, ordering that the remains of the slain Persians be taken up from the city and, having been cast out some distance from the city, be burned, and that the whole city be purified and that pyres of laurel trees be made at each place and gate of the same city, and that much frankincense of bay leaves be thrown on the fire and that throughout the whole city they should beat bull-hide drums to drive away the unjust spirits of the slaughtered Persians; and it was done so. And the same emperor Trajan came down from Daphne and entered Antioch of Syria through the so-called Golden Gate, that is the Daphnitic Gate, wearing on his head a crown of olive branches, in the month of Audynaios, which is also January, on the seventh day, the 5th day of the week, at the 4th hour of the day. And he ordered the bull-hide drums 273 to be beaten for 30 days every night, ordering this also, that it should happen annually at the same time in memory of the destruction of the Persians. These things Domninus the chronicler wrote down. And while the same emperor Trajan was staying in Antioch of Syria planning the affairs of the war, Tiberianus, governor of the first province of Palestine, informed him of these things. To the victorious emperor, most divine Caesar Trajan. I have grown weary of punishing and killing the Galileans of the sect of the so--called Christians according to your decrees; and they do not cease from reporting themselves in order to be put to death. Wherefore I have toiled in advising and threatening them not to dare to report to me that they belong to the aforesaid sect; and being driven away they do not cease. Therefore deign to decree for me what seems best to your trophy-bearing power. And the same Trajan commanded him to cease from killing the Christians. And likewise he commanded the governors everywhere this: not to kill the so-called Christians from now on. And there was a small respite for the Christians. And the same Trajan went out from Antioch the great, having stirred up war against the Persians; and he conquered them by force in this manner. Having learned that Parthemaspates, his own cousin, was envied by Sanatruces, king of the Persians, emperor Trajan sent 274 to him and suborned him, promising to give him the kingdom of the Persians, if he would ally with him. And having been suborned, he came to him by night; and the same most divine Trajan, taking him to his own side with his multitude, rushed against Sanatruces, king of the Persians; and when many Persians had fallen, he captured Sanatruces, king of the Persians, as he was fleeing; and he killed him. And in his place the same Trajan, according to the agreements, made a man named Parthemaspates, son of Osroes, king of the Persians for the remaining Persians who had submitted to him, writing to the senate in Rome that "We are not able to administer so much boundless land and immeasurable distances remote from Rome, but let us provide for them a king subject to the power of the Romans." And the senate from Rome wrote back to him to do all things as he wished and he himself saw fit for the Roman state. And Parthemaspates became king of the Persians. And the most wise Arrian the chronicler set forth the war and the victory over the Persians of the most divine Trajan, having recorded and written down all things accurately. And the same emperor also made Amida a metropolis, calling the province Mesopotamia, having divided it from Osroene, and giving it a governor and the right of a metropolis. He also made 275 another province in the

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Σκεπινὴν γειτονίαν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Τραϊανὸς ἀκούσας ταῦτα ἐπῄνεσε τὸ ἀνδρεῖον τῶν Ἀντιοχέων πολιτῶν· καὶ τῶν δὲ πλοίων τοῦ στρατοῦ αὐτοῦ καταφθασάντων ἀπὸ Σελευκείας, ἀνῆλθον ἐπὶ τὴν ἱερὰν ∆άφνην εὔξασθαι καὶ θυσιάσαι εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος. καὶ ἐδήλωσε τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσιν ἀπὸ ∆άφνης κελεύσας ἐπαρθῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως τὰ λείψανα τῶν φονευθέντων Περσῶν καὶ ἀπὸ διαστήματος τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐκβληθέντα καυθῆναι, ἁγνισθῆναι δὲ καὶ τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν καὶ γενέσθαι πυρὰς κατὰ τόπον καὶ πυλῶνα τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως δαφνίνων δένδρων, καὶ βάλλεσθαι ἐν τῷ πυρὶ τῶν φυλλοδαφνῶν λίβανον πολὺ καὶ κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν ταυρέας ἐκτυπεῖν πρὸς τὸ ἀποδιωχθῆναι τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἄδικα τῶν σφαγέντων Περσῶν· καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως. καὶ κατῆλθεν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Τραϊανὸς ἀπὸ ∆άφνης καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας διὰ τῆς χρυσέας τῆς λεγομένης, τοῦτ' ἔστι τῆς ∆αφνητικῆς, φορῶν ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ κεφαλῇ στέφανον ἀπὸ ἐλαιοκλάδων, μηνὶ αὐδηναίῳ τῷ καὶ ἰανουαρίῳ ἑβδόμῃ ἡμέρᾳ εʹ, ὥρᾳ ἡμερινῇ δʹ. τὰς δὲ ταυρέας 273 ἐκέλευσε βάλλεσθαι ἄχρι ἡμερῶν λʹ καθ' ἑκάστην νύκτα, κελεύσας καὶ τοῦτο, ὥστε κατ' ἔτος τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ γίνεσθαι μνήμης χάριν τῆς τῶν Περσῶν ἀπωλείας. ἅτινα ∆ομνῖνος ὁ χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο. Ἐν τῷ δὲ διατρίβειν τὸν αὐτὸν Τραϊανὸν βασιλέα ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας βουλευόμενον τὰ περὶ τοῦ πολέμου ἐμήνυσεν αὐτὸν Τιβεριανός, ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πρώτου Παλαιστινῶν ἔθνους, ταῦτα. Αὐτοκράτορι νικητῇ Καίσαρι θειοτάτῳ Τραϊανῷ. ἀπέκαμον τιμωρούμενος καὶ φονεύων τοὺς Γαλιλαίους τοὺς τοῦ δόγματος τῶν λεγομένων χριστιανῶν κατὰ τὰ ὑμέτερα θεσπίσματα· καὶ οὐ παύονται ἑαυτοὺς μηνύοντες εἰς τὸ ἀναιρεῖσθαι. ὅθεν ἐκοπίασα τούτοις παραινῶν καὶ ἀπειλῶν μὴ τολμᾶν αὐτοὺς μηνύειν μοι ὑπάρχοντας ἐκ τοῦ προειρημένου δόγματος· καὶ ἀποδιωκόμενοι οὐ παύονται. θεσπίσαι μοι οὖν καταξιώσατε τὰ παριστάμενα τῷ ὑμετέρῳ κράτει τροπαιούχῳ. καὶ ἐκέλευσεν αὐτῷ ὁ αὐτὸς Τραϊανὸς παύσασθαι τοῦ φονεύειν τοὺς χριστιανούς. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τοῖς πανταχοῦ ἄρχουσι τοῦτο ἐκέλευσε, μὴ φονεύειν τοῦ λοιποῦ τοὺς λεγομένους χριστιανούς. καὶ ἐγένετο ἔνδοσις μικρὰ τοῖς χριστιανοῖς. Καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης πόλεμον κατὰ Περσῶν κινήσας ὁ αὐτὸς Τραϊανός· καὶ ἐνίκησεν αὐτοὺς κατὰ κράτος τῷ τρόπῳ τούτῳ. μαθὼν ὅτι διαφθονεῖται τῷ Σανατρουκίῳ, βασιλεῖ Περσῶν, ὁ ἴδιος αὐτοῦ ἐξάδελφος Παρθεμασπάτης, πέμ 274 ψας πρὸς αὐτὸν ὑπενόθευσεν αὐτὸν Τραϊανὸς βασιλεύς, ταξάμενος δοῦναι αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλείαν Περσῶν, ἐὰν συμμαχήσῃ αὐτῷ. καὶ ὑπονοθευθεὶς ἦλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν νυκτός· καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον αὐτοῦ μέρος μετὰ τοῦ πλήθους αὐτοῦ ὁ αὐτὸς θειότατος Τραϊανός, ὥρμησε κατὰ τοῦ Σανατρουκίου, βασιλέως Περσῶν· καὶ πολλῶν Περσῶν πεσόντων συνελάβετο τὸν Σανατρούκιον, βασιλέα Περσῶν, φεύγοντα· καὶ ἐφόνευσεν αὐτόν. καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀντ' αὐτοῦ βασιλέα Περσῶν τοῖς ὑπολειφθεῖσι καὶ προσπεσοῦσιν αὐτῷ Πέρσαις ὁ αὐτὸς Τραϊανὸς κατὰ τὰς συντάξεις ὀνόματι Παρθεμασπάτην, υἱὸν Ὀσδρόου, γράψας τῇ συγκλήτῳ τῇ ἐν Ῥώμῃ ὅτι τοσαύτην καὶ ἄπειρον γῆν καὶ ἄμετρα διαστήματα ἀφεστηκότα τῆς Ῥώμης διοικεῖν οὐκ ἀντεχόμεθα, ἀλλὰ παράσχωμεν αὐτοῖς βασιλέα ὑποτεταγμένον τῷ τῶν Ῥωμαίων κράτει. καὶ ἀντέγραψεν αὐτῷ ἡ σύγκλητος ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἅπαντα ποιῆσαι ὡς δ' ἂν βούληται καὶ αὐτὸς συνίδῃ συμφέρειν τῇ Ῥωμανίᾳ. καὶ ἐβασίλευσε Περσῶν ὁ Παρθεμασπάτης. τὸν δὲ πόλεμον καὶ τὴν κατὰ Περσῶν νίκην τοῦ θειοτάτου Τραϊανοῦ ὁ σοφώτατος Ἀρειανὸς ὁ χρονογράφος ἐξέθετο, ἱστορήσας καὶ συγγραψάμενος πάντα ἀκριβῶς. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐποίησε καὶ τὴν Ἄμιδαν μητρόπολιν, καλέσας ἐπαρχίαν Μεσοποταμίαν, ἀπομερίσας αὐτὴν ἀπὸ Ὀσδροηνῆς, δοὺς καὶ ἄρχοντα αὐτῇ καὶ δίκαιον μητροπόλεως. ἐποίησε 275 δὲ καὶ ἄλλην ἐπαρχίαν εἰς τὸν