Straightway, then, they fell upon them feasting and unarmed. And the Romans did not withstand their onset, nor did they once think of resistance, but they began to flee as each one could; and some of them were captured and slain, while others climbed the hill which rises there and threw themselves down the cliff in panic and much confusion. And they say that not a man escaped from there; but Patricius and Hypatius had succeeded in getting away at the beginning of the onset.
Edition :
Procopius: De Bellis; in: Procopius. History of the Wars, Volume I-V. ed. and transl. H. B. Dewing, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914-1928.
Remark :
source: The quote extends into 1.8.19.
Notes :
For the entry focusing on the Persian attack, see: "The army of Cavades I. ambushes a Roman army under Patricius and Hypatius while they were feasting, killing or capturing everyone except the generals."
