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to take possession of the things there. But the king Sabbourarsakios, suspecting that the emperor of the Romans, Julian, was coming through Nisibis, rushed against him with his entire multitude. But when it was reported to him that 331 the emperor of the Romans, Julian, was behind him, having taken the Persian territories, and that the generals of the Romans and many multitudes were meeting him in front, and realizing that he was surrounded, he fled to Persarmenia, having sent by deceit two of his senators, whom he had also mutilated on their noses by his own will, to Julian, the emperor of the Romans, in order to deceive him, so that he might not be pursued and overtaken. The Persians whose noses had been cut off came to the emperor of the Romans, wanting, he says, to betray the king of the Persians, as one who had punished them. But being deceived by them as they swore oaths, the same emperor Julian followed them with his own army; and they led him into the desert and waterless land for 150 miles, having led them astray, on the twenty-fifth of the month Daisios, which is also June. And finding there the ancient fallen walls of a city called Boubion, and another place, whose buildings were standing but which was deserted, which was called Asia; there the emperor Julian and the whole army of the Romans encamped. But being in these places, they were lacking provisions, and not even for the beasts was there fodder; for it was a wilderness; and the whole Roman army, realizing that the emperor, having been deceived, had led them astray and brought them into deserted places, turned to great disorder. On the next day, the 26th of the month of June, he brought forward the Persians who had deceived him and examined them; and they confessed, saying that for the sake of our country and our king, so that 332 he might be saved, we gave ourselves over to death and led you astray; behold, we, your servants, have died. And he received them, not killing them, but giving them a commission to lead the army out of the desert country. And around the second hour of the same day, the emperor Julian, while passing by the army and imploring them not to behave in a disorderly manner, was wounded by an unknown hand; and entering his own tent, he died during the night, as the aforementioned Magnus set forth. But Eutychianus the chronographer, the Cappadocian, being a soldier and a vicarius of his own unit of the Primoarmenicani, and being present himself in the war, wrote that the same emperor Julian, having gone down for 15 stages to the Persian territories, entered by way of the Euphrates and, becoming victorious and conquering all, he took possession as far as the city called Ctesiphon, where the king of the Persians was residing, he having fled to the regions of the Persarmenians, and intending with his own senate and his army to set out for Babylon the next day and take it by night. And as he was sleeping, he saw in a vision a certain perfect man clothed in a coat of mail, who entered to him into his tent near the city of Ctesiphon in a city called Asia and struck him with a spear; and terrified he awoke, crying out; and the eunuch cubicularii and spatharii and the army guarding the tent arose, and entered to him with royal torches; and having 333 noticed himself slaughtered under the armpit, Julian the emperor asked them, What is the name of the village where my tent is? And they told him that it is called Asia. And immediately he cried out, O Sun, you have destroyed Julian. And having shed his blood, he gave up his spirit at the fifth hour of the night, in the year 411 according to the era of Antioch the Great. And immediately the army, before the Persian enemies knew, went to the tent of Jovian, who held the rank of count of the domestics and magister militum; and though he was unaware they led him to the imperial

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