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| ID |
5467 |
| Text |
Historiae (565 - 580) Agathias of Myrina |
| Quotation |
Περόζης (...) ἀπίλωλε δὴ οὖν κατὰ τῶν Νεφθαλιτῶν ἐπιστρατεύσας, οὐτοσοῦτον, οἶμαι, τῇ ῥώμῃ τῶν δυσμενῶν, ὁπόσον τῇ οἴκοθεν ἀκοσμίᾳ· δέον γὰρ αὐτὸν ξὺν τῷ ἀσφαλαῖ κατὰ τὴν πολεμίαν πορεύεσθαι τὰς ἀδήλους ἐπιβουλὰς προδιασκοποῦντα καὶ φυλαττόμενον, ὁ δὲ λέληθεν ἑαυτὸν ἐνέδραις ἀθρόον περοπεςὼν καὶ βόθροις καὶ διώρυξιν, ἒπὶ μήκιστον τοῦ μεδίου πρὸς τὸ ἀπατηλὸν μεμηχανημέναις, αὐτοῦ τε ξὺν τῇ στρατιᾷ διεφθάρη τετάρτῳ καὶ εἰκοστῷ τῆς βασιλείας ἐνιαυτῷ, καὶ καταλύει τὸν βίον ἀκλεῶς, | ἅτε δὴ ὑπὸ τῶν Οὔννων κατεστρατηγμένος· Οὐννικὸν γὰρ γένος οἱ Νεφθαλῖται. |
| Translation |
4.27.3-4 (p. 130) Peroz (...) lost his life in an expedition against the Ephthalites not so much, I imagine, through the strength of his opponents as through his own recklessness. Though he should have taken all the necessary precautions and reconnaissance measures to safeguard his advance into enemy territory against ambush he fell straight into a trap, a series of carefully camouflaged pits and trenches that stretched over the plain for a very great distance. He perished there together with his army in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, outmanoeuvred by the Huns – an ignominious way of ending his life. The Ephthalites are in fact a Hunnic people. |
| Summary |
Death of the Sasanian king Peroz I during an expedition against the Ephthalites, explained by his own negligence. |
| Quotation source |
Δ.27.3-4 (pp. 157.27-158.6) |
| Temporal Coverage |
484 - 484 |
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