Quae loca pinguia satis et cultu, quibus Coche (quam Seleuciam nominant) haut longius disparatur, ubi vallatis opere tumultuario castris, et exercitu omni per aquarum et pabuli opportuna biduo recreato, antegressus cum procursatoribus princeps, et civitatem desertam collustrans, a Caro principe quondam excisam, in qua perpetuus fons stagnum ingens eiectat, in Tigridem defluens, corpora vidit suflixa patibulis multa necessitudinum eius, quem prodidisse civitatem Pirisaboram rettulimus supra.
This district is fruitful in fields of grain and in cultivation. Not far from it is Coche, which they call Seleucia; there a camp was hastily fortified, and the entire army because of the convenience of water and fodder rested for two days. But the emperor went on ahead with some light-armed skirmishers, in order to visit a deserted city destroyed in former days by the emperor Carus; in this there is an everflowing spring forming a great pool which empties into the Tigris. There he saw the impaled bodies of many kinsmen of the man who (as I have already said) had surrendered the city of Pirisabora.
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