133. The evidence of Ammianus is original and decisive
(xxvii. 12). Moses of Chorene (1. iii. c. 17, p. 249, and c.
34, p. 269) and Procopius (de Bell. Persico,1. i. c. 5, p.
17, edit. Louvre [tom. i. p. 29, ed. Bonn]) have been
consulted; but those historians, who confound distinct
facts, repeat the same events, and introduce strange
stories, must be used with diffidence and caution.