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called the Tetrapylon of the Elephants, near the Regia. And going out through the Cyrrhestica he went away against the Persians; and passing through Cyrrhus, the city in the country, he saw a crowd standing at the cave of Saint Dometius and being healed by him. and he asks some people who that gathered crowd is; and he learned that in the cave of the mountain is a monk and to him the standing crowd gathers, wishing to be healed and to be blessed by him. And the emperor Julian declared these things to Saint Dometius through a Christian referendarius: Because you wished to please your God you entered the cave; do not wish to please men, but be alone. And Saint Dometius declared back to him that: Having given my soul and my body to God a long time ago, I shut myself in this cave; but the crowd coming to me in faith I am not able to drive away. And the emperor Julian ordered the cave to be blocked up with large stones and the righteous man to be inside. And from this Saint Dometius was perfected. And the same emperor Julian, going down against Sabbourarsakes, king of the Persians, arrived in Hierapolis; and having sent he had 329 boats constructed in Samosata, a city of Euphratensis, some of wood and others of hides, as the most wise Magnus the chronographer of Carrhae, who was with him, the emperor Julian, wrote. And going out from Hierapolis he came to Carrhae the city; and from there he found two roads, one leading to the city of Nisibis, once belonging to the Romans, and another to the Roman fort called Circesium, situated in the middle of the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Abboras; which Diocletian, emperor of the Romans, built. And having divided the army, the same emperor sends to Nisibis sixteen thousand armed men with two exarchs, Sebastianus and Procopius. And the same Julian arrived at the fort of Circesium; and having left in the fort of Circesium as many garrison soldiers as he found, six thousand, adding to them also another four thousand armed men with two exarchs, Accameus and Maurus. And he went out from there and passed the Abboras river by the bridge, the boats having reached the Euphrates river; of which boats the number was one thousand two hundred fifty. And having gathered his own army, having with him Anatolius the magister and Salutius the praetorian prefect and his generals, having ascended a high tribunal he himself addressed the army, praising them and urging them to fight eagerly and prudently against the Persians. And immediately he permitted them to embark 330 on the boats, the emperor himself also having entered the boat prepared for him, and he ordered brave men, scouts, from the number of the lanciarii and mattiarii, one thousand five hundred, to go before them, having ordered his own standards to be carried and the count Lucian, a most warlike man, to be with him. who also sacked many Persian forts lying along the Euphrates and being on islands in the middle of the waters and killed the Persians who were in them. And he appointed Victor and Dagalaifus to be behind the rest of the boats and to guard the multitudes. and the emperor went down with the whole army through the great canal of the Euphrates which joins with the Tigris river; and he entered the same Tigris river, where the two rivers mix and form a great lake. And he came into Persian territory in the land of the so-called Mauzanitae, near the city of Ctesiphon, where the Persian palace was; and having become victorious, the emperor Julian encamped in the plain of the same city of Ctesiphon, wishing with his own senate both to enter as far as Babylon and

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λεγόμενον Τετράπυλον τῶν ἐλεφάντων πλησίον τῆς Ῥηγίας. Καὶ ἐξελθὼν διὰ τῶν Κυρηστικῶν ἀπῆλθε κατὰ Περσῶν· παρερχόμενος δὲ διὰ Κύρου τῆς πόλεως ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ εἶδεν ὄχλον ἑστῶτα ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ τοῦ ἁγίου ∆ομετίου καὶ ἰώμενον παρ' αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐρωτᾷ τινας τίς ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος ὁ συναγόμενος ὄχλος; καὶ ἔμαθεν ὅτι ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ τοῦ ὄρους ἐστὶ μοναχὸς καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν συνάγεται ὁ ἑστὼς ὄχλος, θέλων ἰαθῆναι καὶ εὐλογηθῆναι παρ' αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐδήλωσε τῷ ἁγίῳ ∆ομετίῳ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰουλιανὸς διὰ ῥεφερενδαρίου χριστιανοῦ ταῦτα· ∆ιὰ τὸ ἀρέσαι τῷ θεῷ σου εἰς τὸ σπήλαιον εἰσῆλθες· ἀνθρώποις μὴ θέλε ἀρέσκειν, ἀλλὰ ἰδίαζε. καὶ ἀντεδήλωσεν αὐτῷ ὁ ἅγιος ∆ομέτιος ὅτι Ὡς τῷ θεῷ ἐκδόσαντός μου τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἐκ πολλοῦ χρόνου ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ τούτῳ ἐμαυτὸν ἀπέκλεισα· τὸν δὲ πρός με ἐρχόμενον ὄχλον ἐν πίστει ἀποδιώκειν οὐ δύναμαι. καὶ ἐκέλευσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰουλιανὸς ἀναφραγῆναι τὸ σπήλαιον λίθοις μεγάλοις καὶ εἶναι αὐτὸν τὸν δίκαιον ἔσω. καὶ ἐκ τούτου ἐτελειώθη ὁ ἅγιος ∆ομέτιος. Καὶ κατιὼν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ἰουλιανὸς κατὰ Σαββουραρσάκου, βασιλέως Περσῶν, κατέφθασεν ἐν Ἱεραπόλει· καὶ πέμψας κα 329 τεσκεύασε πλοῖα ἐν Σαμοσάτοις, πόλει τῆς Εὐφρατησίας, τὰ μὲν διὰ ξύλων τὰ δὲ διὰ βυρσῶν, ὡς ὁ σοφώτατος Μάγνος ὁ χρονογράφος ὁ Καρηνός, ὁ συνὼν αὐτῷ Ἰουλιανῷ βασιλεῖ, συνεγράψατο. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἱεραπόλεως ἐξελθὼν ἦλθεν ἐν Κάραις τῇ πόλει· κἀκεῖθεν εὗρε δύο ὁδούς, μίαν ἀπάγουσαν εἰς τὴν Νίσιβιν πόλιν, οὖσάν ποτε Ῥωμαίων, καὶ ἄλλην ἐπὶ τὸ Ῥωμαϊκὸν κάστρον τὸ λεγόμενον Κιρκήσιον, κείμενον εἰς τὸ μέσον τῶν δύο ποταμῶν τοῦ Εὐφράτου καὶ τοῦ Ἀββορᾶ· ὅπερ ἔκτισε ∆ιοκλητιανός, βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων. καὶ μερίσας τὸν στρατὸν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς πέμπει ἐπὶ τὴν Νίσιβιν ὁπλίτας ἄνδρας μυρίους ἑξακισχιλίους μετὰ δύο ἐξάρχων Σεβαστιανοῦ καὶ Προκοπίου. καὶ κατέφθασεν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰουλιανὸς τὸ Κιρκήσιον κάστρον· καὶ ἐάσας καὶ ἐν τῷ Κιρκησίῳ κάστρῳ ὅσους εὗρεν ἐγκαθέτους στρατιώτας ἑξακισχιλίους, προσθεὶς αὐτοῖς καὶ ἄλλους ὁπλίτας ἄνδρας τετρακισχιλίους μετὰ ἐξάρχων δύο Ἀκκαμέου καὶ Μαύρου. καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν καὶ παρῆλθε τὸν Ἀββορὰν ποταμὸν διὰ τῆς γεφύρης, τῶν πλοίων φθασάντων εἰς τὸν Εὐφράτην ποταμόν· ὧντινων πλοίων ὑπῆρχεν ὁ ἀριθμὸς χιλίων διακοσίων πεντήκοντα. καὶ συναθροίσας τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ στρατόν, ἔχων μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ Ἀνατόλιον μάγιστρον καὶ Σαλούστιον ἔπαρχον πραιτωρίων καὶ τοὺς στρατηλάτας αὐτοῦ, ἀνελθὼν ἐν ὑψηλῷ βήματι δι' ἑαυτοῦ προσεφώνησε τῷ στρατῷ, ἐπαινῶν αὐτοὺς καὶ προτρεπόμενος προθύμως καὶ σωφρόνως ἀγωνίσασθαι κατὰ Περσῶν. Καὶ εὐθέως ἐμβαίνειν 330 εἰς τὰ πλοῖα ἐπέτρεψεν, εἰσελθὼν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸ εὐτρεπισθὲν αὐτῷ πλοῖον, καὶ προηγεῖσθαι αὐτῶν προσκουλκάτορας προσέταξεν ἄνδρας γενναίους ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν λαγκιαρίων καὶ ματτιαρίων χιλίους πεντακοσίους, κελεύσας βαστάζεσθαι καὶ τὰ σίγνα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν κόμητα Λουκιανόν, ἄνδρα πολεμικώτατον, εἶναι σὺν αὐτῷ. ὅστις καὶ πολλὰ κάστρα Περσικὰ παρὰ τὸν Εὐφράτην κείμενα καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ὑδάτων ἐν νήσοις ὄντα ἐπόρθησε καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτοῖς ὄντας Πέρσας ἀνεῖλε. Βίκτορα δὲ καὶ ∆αγαλάϊφον κατέταξεν ὄπισθεν τῶν λοιπῶν πλοίων εἶναι καὶ φυλάττειν τὰ πλήθη. καὶ κατῆλθεν ὁ βασιλεὺς μετὰ τοῦ στρατοῦ παντὸς διὰ τῆς μεγάλης διώρυγος τοῦ Εὐφράτου τῆς μισγούσης τῷ Τίγρητι ποταμῷ· καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν Τίγρητα ποταμόν, ὅπου μίγνυνται οἱ δύο ποταμοὶ καὶ ἀποτελοῦσι λίμνην μεγάλην. καὶ παρέβαλεν εἰς τὰ Περσικὰ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν λεγομένων Μαυζανιτῶν, πλησίον Κτησιφῶντος πόλεως, ἔνθα ὑπῆρχε τὸ Περσικὸν βασίλειον· καὶ ἐπικρατὴς γενόμενος Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν τῇ πεδιάδι τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως Κτησιφῶντος, βουλόμενος μετὰ τῆς ἰδίας συγκλήτου καὶ ἕως Βαβυλῶνος εἰσελθεῖν καὶ