Note 118 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 3)

The reconquest of Mesopotamia is reported only by the biographer, c. 8; but at the outbreak of the Persian war under Diocletian it is Roman. There is mention at the same place of internal troubles in the Persian empire; also in a discourse held in the year 289 (Paneg. iii. c. 17) there is mention of the war, which is waged against the king of Persia—this was Bahram II.—by his own brother Ormies or rather Hormizd adscitis Sacis et Ruffis (?) et Gellis (comp. Nöldeke, Tabarî, p. 479). We have altogether only some detached notices as to this important campaign.