Note 97 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The tradition according to which Mareades (so Ammianus, xxiii. 5, 3; Mariades in Malalas, 12, p. 295; Mariadnes in contin. of Dio, fr. 1), or, as he is here called, Cyriades, had himself proclaimed as Augustus (Vit. trig. tyr. 1) is weakly attested; otherwise there might doubtless be found in it the occasion why Sapor caused him to be put to death.