Qua iniquitate percitus qui audiebatur, Etsi me inquit despicit imperator, negotii tamen ea est magnitudo, ut non nisi iudicio principis nosci possit et vindicari; sciat tamen velut quodam praesagio, quod dum maeret super his quae apud Amidam gesta amendata didicit fide, dumque ad spadonum arbitrium trahitur, defrustandae Mesopotamiae proximo vere ne ipse quidem cum exercitus robore omni, opitulari poterit praesens.
The accused, exasperated at this injustice, said: Although the emperor despises me, the importance of the present business is such, that it cannot be examined into and punished, except by the judgement of the prince; yet let him know, as if from the words of a seer, that so long as he grieves over what he has learned on no good authority to have happened at Amida, and so long as he is swayed by the will of eunuchs, not even he in person with all the flower of his army will be able next spring to prevent the dismemberment of Mesopotania.
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