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but encamped outside the walls. But Junius the Persian satrap, having entered the city by order of the king, placed a Persian standard on one of the towers, since the emperor of the Romans had ordered all the citizens down to the last one to depart with all their belongings. And Silvanus, a comes by rank and a magistrate of the same city, went out to him and fell before the emperor himself, begging him not to betray the city to the Persians; and he did not persuade him. For he said, it is reported, that he had sworn an oath and did not wish to have a reputation for perjury among all. And having walled a town outside the wall of the city of Amida, calling the village Nisibis, there he made all those from the 337 country of Mygdonia to dwell, and Silvanus the magistrate. And having crossed over to Mesopotamia, he immediately restored all things belonging to the Christians and entrusted affairs to Christians, and he promoted Christian rulers and exarchs throughout the whole east. And having left the east, the same emperor Jovian, after making a peace treaty with the Persians for a short time, set out for Constantinople in haste with his army because of the winter; for it was severe. and as he was travelling up, he reached the country of the Galatians; and he died a natural death in a village called Dadastana, being 60 years old. After the reign of Jovian, Valentinian the severe reigned in the city of Nicaea for 16 years. and he was a Christian. He was promoted by the senate and was crowned emperor by Salutius the praetorian prefect, who had chosen him and compelled him to reign. For this same emperor Valentinian, Julian the emperor, the apostate, had sent to Salabria, as he was a staunch Christian, having made him tribune of a numerus; for he knew in a vision that he would reign after him. But the prefect Sa 338 lutius sent and brought him from Salabria, and said to the army that no one is fit to be emperor of the Romans like this man. As soon as he became emperor, he immediately dismissed the same prefect Salutius, and having placed him under bond, he set up a proclamation against him, so that if anyone had been wronged in any way by him, he might approach the emperor. And no one came forward against Salutius; for he was most pure. The same emperor Valentinian built many things in Antioch the great. He campaigned against the Persians, sending his own brother Valens, having made him Caesar, on the first of the month of April; and this same Valens did not wage war, but having gone down he made a peace treaty; for he had full authority in the person of his own brother, since the Persians came down and asked for peace. So this same Valens, being in Antioch of Syria with the multitude of the military force on the tenth of the month of November, in the 14th indiction, lingered there for the purpose of making the peace treaty with the Persians; and he made the treaty for seven years, with the Persians asking for peace and ceding half of Nisibis. And he built in the same city of the Antiochians, delighted with the location and the climate and the waters, first the forum, undertaking a great construction, having torn down the basilica formerly called the Caesarium, which was near the horologion and the public bath of Commodus, which is now the praetorium of the consular governor of Sy 339 ria, as far as the so-called Plethrium, and having renewed its apse and having constructed arches over the so-called Parmenius, a torrent river, coming down from the mountain through the middle of the city of Antioch. And having made another basilica opposite the bath of Commodus and having adorned the four basilicas with large columns from Salona, and having coffered the ceilings and having beautified them with paintings and various marbles and mosaic-work, and having faced with marble the retaining walls of the torrent, the whole central court he completed his forum, and having bestowed various virtues on the four basilicas and having set up statues, and in the

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ἀλλ' ἔξω τῶν τειχέων κατεσκήνωσεν. ὁ δὲ Ἰούνιος ὁ τῶν Περσῶν σατράπης εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν πόλιν κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ βασιλέως, εἰς ἕνα τῶν πύργων σημεῖον Περσικὸν ἔθηκε, τοῦ βασιλέως Ῥωμαίων κελεύσαντος τοὺς πολίτας πάντας σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς διαφέρουσιν αὐτοῖς ἕως ἑνὸς ἐξελθεῖν. καὶ ἐξελθὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν Σιλουανὸς κόμης τῇ ἀξίᾳ καὶ πολιτευόμενος τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως προσέπεσεν αὐτῷ τῷ βασιλεῖ δεόμενος αὐτοῦ μὴ προδοῦναι τὴν πόλιν Πέρσαις· καὶ οὐκ ἔπεισεν αὐτόν. ὀμωμοκέναι γάρ, φησίν, ἔφασκε καὶ μὴ βούλεσθαι δόξαν ἐπίορκον παρὰ πᾶσιν ἔχειν. καὶ τειχίσας πόλιν ἔξω τοῦ τείχους τῆς πόλεως Ἀμίδης, καλέσας τὴν κώμην Νισίβεως, ἐκεῖ πάντας τοὺς ἐκ τῆς 337 Μυγδονίας χώρας οἰκεῖν ἐποίησε καὶ Σιλουανὸν τὸν πολιτευόμενον. Καὶ περάσας ἐπὶ τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν εὐθέως πάντα τὰ χριστιανῶν ἀνήγειρε καὶ χριστιανοῖς ἐνεχείριζε τὰ πράγματα καὶ ἄρχοντας χριστιανοὺς εἰς τὴν ἀνατολὴν πᾶσαν προηγάγετο καὶ ἐξάρχους. καὶ ἀπολιπὼν τὴν ἀνατολὴν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ἰοβιανὸς μετὰ τὸ ποιῆσαι πάκτα εἰρήνης μετὰ Περσῶν πρὸς ὀλίγον χρόνον ἐξώρμησεν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν σπουδαίως μετὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ στρατοῦ διὰ τὸν χειμῶνα· ἦν γὰρ βαρύς. καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀνιέναι αὐτὸν κατέφθασε τὴν Γαλατῶν χώραν· καὶ τελευτᾷ ἰδίῳ θανάτῳ ἐν κώμῃ λεγομένῃ ∆αδάστανα, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν ξʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Ἰοβιανοῦ ἐβασίλευσε Βαλεντινιανὸς ἐν Νικαίᾳ πόλει ὁ ἀπότομος ἔτη ιςʹ. ἦν δὲ χριστιανός. οὗτος δὲ ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου προήχθη καὶ ἐστέφθη βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ Σαλουστίου τοῦ ἐπάρχου τῶν πραιτωρίων, ἐπιλεξαμένου αὐτὸν καὶ καταναγκάσαντος αὐτὸν βασιλεῦσαι. τὸν γὰρ αὐτὸν βασιλέα Βαλεντινιανὸν Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ παραβάτης, ὡς χριστιανὸν πάνυ, ἔπεμψεν εἰς Σαλαβρίαν, ποιήσας τριβοῦνον ἀριθμοῦ· ἔγνω γὰρ ἐν ὁράματι ὅτι μετ' αὐτὸν αὐτὸς βασιλεύει. ὁ δὲ ἔπαρχος Σα 338 λούστιος πέμψας ἤνεγκεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ Σαλαμβρίας, καὶ εἶπε τῷ στρατῷ ὅτι οὐδεὶς ποιεῖ βασιλέα Ῥωμαίων ὡς οὗτος. Ἢ μόνον δὲ ἐβασίλευσεν, εὐθέως διεδέξατο τὸν αὐτὸν ἔπαρχον Σαλούστιον, καὶ ὑπὸ ἐγγύας ποιήσας ἔθηκε πρόθεμα κατ' αὐτοῦ, ἵνα εἴ τις ἠδικήθη τι παρ' αὐτοῦ, προσέλθῃ τῷ βασιλεῖ. καὶ οὐδεὶς προσῆλθε κατὰ Σαλουστίου· ἦν γὰρ ἁγνότατος. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Βαλεντινιανὸς ἔκτισεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ πολλά. ἐπεστράτευσε δὲ κατὰ Περσῶν, πέμψας τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ ἀδελφὸν Βάλεντα, ποιήσας αὐτὸν Καίσαρα, μηνὶ ἀπριλλίῳ πρώτῃ· καὶ οὐκ ἐπολέμησεν ὁ αὐτὸς Βάλης, ἀλλὰ κατελθὼν ἐποίησεν εἰρήνης πάκτα· εἶχε γὰρ πᾶσαν ἐξουσίαν εἰς πρόσωπον τοῦ ἰδίου ἀδελφοῦ· κατελθόντων Περσῶν καὶ αἰτησάντων εἰρήνην. Γενόμενος οὖν ὁ αὐτὸς Βάλης ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας μετὰ τοῦ πλήθους τῆς στρατιωτικῆς δυνάμεως μηνὶ νοεμβρίῳ δεκάτῃ, ἰνδικτιῶνι ιδʹ, διέσυρεν ἐκεῖ ἕνεκεν τοῦ ποιῆσαι μετὰ Περσῶν τὰ πάκτα τῆς εἰρήνης· καὶ ἐποίησε τὰ πάκτα ἐπὶ ἔτη ἑπτά, τῶν Περσῶν αἰτησάντων εἰρήνην καὶ παραχωρησάντων τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ Νιζτίβιος. καὶ ἔκτισεν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Ἀντιοχέων πόλει, τερφθεὶς τῆς τοποθεσίας καὶ τῶν ἀέρων καὶ τῶν ὑδάτων, πρῶτον τὸν φόρον, ἐπιβαλόμενος μέγα κτίσμα, λύσας τὴν βασιλικὴν τὴν λεγομένην πρῴην τὸ Καισάριον, τὴν οὖσαν πλησίον τοῦ ὡρολογίου καὶ τοῦ Κομμοδίου δημοσίου, τοῦ νυνὶ ὄντος πραιτωρίου ὑπατικοῦ Συ 339 ρίας ἄρχοντος, ἕως τοῦ λεγομένου Πλεθρίου, καὶ τὴν κόγχην ἀνανεώσας αὐτῆς καὶ εἰλήσας ἁψῖδας ἐπάνω τοῦ λεγομένου Παρμενίου χειμάῤῥου ποταμοῦ, κατερχομένου ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους κατὰ μέσον τῆς πόλεως Ἀντιοχείας. καὶ ποιήσας ἄλλην βασιλικὴν κατέναντι τοῦ Κομμοδίου καὶ κοσμήσας τὰς τέσσαρας βασιλικὰς κίοσι μεγάλοις Σαλωνιτικοῖς, καλαθώσας δὲ τὰς ὑποροφώσεις καὶ καλλωπίσας γραφαῖς καὶ μαρμάροις διαφόροις καὶ μουσώσει, μαρμαρώσας δὲ ἐπάνω τῶν εἰλημάτων τοῦ χειμάῤῥου πᾶν τὸ μέσαυλον ἐπλήρωσε τὸν φόρον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ταῖς τέτρασι βασιλικαῖς διαφόρους ἀρετὰς χαρισάμενος καὶ ἀνδριάντας στήσας, ἐν δὲ τῷ