Note 85 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
Ammianus, xxiii. 5, 2: Cercusium ... Diocletianus exiguum ante hoc et suspectum muris turribusque circumdedit celsis, ... ne vagarentur per Syriam Persae ita ut paucis ante annis cum magnis provinciarum contigerat damnis. Comp. Procopius de aed. ii. 6. Perhaps this place is not different from the Φάλγα or Φάλιγα of Isidorus of Charax (mans. Parth. 1; Stephanus Byz. s. v.) and the Philiscum of Pliny (p. 94, note).