16. _alii per Caspia clustara
Armeniasque nives, inopino tramite ducti
Invadunt Orientis opes: jam pascua fumant
Cappadocum, volucrumque parens Argaeus equorum.
Jam rubet altus Halys, nec se defendit iniquo
Motlte Cilix; Syriae tractus vastantur amoeni
Assuetumque choris, et laeta plebe canorum,
Proterit imbellem sonipes hostilis Orontem.
Claudian, in Rufin. l. ii. 28-35.
See likewise, in Eutrop. 1. i. 243-251, and the strong
description of Jerom, who wrote from his feelings, tom. i.
p. 26, ad Heliodor. p. 200, ad Ocean. [p. 342 and 460 ed.
Vallars.]. Philostorgius (1. ix. c. 8 [17]) mentions this
irruption.