A.D.

470), been tormented with the feeling that he had suffered degradation and disgrace.

He had, perhaps, plunged into the Armenian and other wars in the hope of drowning the recollection of his shame, in his own mind as well as in the minds of others.

But fortune had not greatly smiled on him in these struggles; and any credit that he obtained from them was quite insufficient to produce forgetfulness of his great disaster.

Hence, as time went on, he became more and more anxious to wipe out the memory of the past by a great and signal victory over his conquerors.