About the same time Kobad found his strength insufficient for active warfare, and put the command of his armies into the hands of his sons.

The struggle continued in Lazica, but with no decisive result.

At Daras, Belisarius, apparently, stood on the defensive.

It was not till A.D.528 had set in that he resumed operations in the open field, and prepared once more to measure his strength against that of Persia.
Belisarius was stirred from his repose by an order from court.

Desirous of carrying further the policy of gaining ground by means of fortified posts, Justinian, who had recently restored and strengthened the frontier city of Martyropolis, on the Nymphius, sent instructions to Belisarius, early in A.D.528, to the effect that he was to build a new fort at a place called Mindon, on the Persian border a little to the left of Nisibis.