Tacitus, Cornelius
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Annals 15.3
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Perseus Eng1
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When
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Corbulo
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had heard all this from messengers he could trust, he sent two legions under
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Verulanus Severus
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and
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Vettius Bolanus
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to the support of
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Tigranes
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, with secret instructions that they were to conduct all their operations with deliberation rather than despatch, as he would prefer to sustain rather than to make war. And indeed he had written to the emperor that a general was wanted specially for the defence of
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Armenia
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, and that
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Syria
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, threatened as it was by
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Vologeses
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, was in yet more imminent peril. Mean-
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while he posted his remaining legions on the bank of the
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Euphrates
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, armed a hastily collected force of provincials, and occupied with troops the enemy's approaches. And as the country was deficient in water, he established forts to guard the wells, and concealed some of the streams with heaps of sand.
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