Civitas inexpugnabilis, facinus audax et importunum.
Ammianus, xxiv. 7. His fellow-soldier, Eutropius, turns aside from the difficulty:
Assyriamque populatus, castra
apud Ctesiphontem stativa aliquandiu habuit: remeansque
victor, etc., x. 16 [8]. Zosimus is artful or ignorant, and Socrates inaccurate.