Quas ob res omisso vano incepto, hiematurus Antiochiae redit in Syriam, aerumnosa perpessus et gravia; nec enim levia erant damna quae Persae intulerant, sed atrociora diuque deflenda.
Therefore abandoning his fruitless attempt, he returned to Syria, purposing to winter in Antioch, having suffered severely and grievously; for the losses which the Persians had inflicted upon him were not slight but terrible and long to be lamented.
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