Note 59 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

We still possess the remarkable report of the governor of Cappadocia under Hadrian, Flavius Arrianus, upon the mobilising of the Cappadocian army against the “Scythians” among his minor writings; he was himself at the Caucasus and visited the passes there (Lydus, de Mag. iii. 53).