Note 111 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

So Zosimus, i. 44, narrates the course of events with which Zonaras, xii. 27 and Syncellus, p. 721, in the main agree. The report in the life of Claudius, c. 11, is more displaced than properly contradictory; the first half is only indicated by the naming of Saba; the narrative begins with the successful attempt of Timagenes to ward off the attack of Probus (here Probatus). The view taken of this by me in Sallet (Palmyra, p. 44) is not tenable.