Among these were a purple robe from Cashmere, or some other remote province of India, of so brilliant a hue that the ordinary purple of the imperial robes could not compare with it, and a chariot like to those in which the Persian monarch was himself wont to be carried.

Aurelian accepted these gifts; and it would seem to follow that he condoned Varahran's conduct, and granted him terms of peace.

Hence, in the triumph which Aurelian celebrated at Rome in the year A.D.

274, no Persian captives appeared in the procession, but Persian envoys were exhibited instead, who bore with them the presents wherewith their master had appeased the anger of the emperor.
A full year, however, had not elapsed from the time of the triumph when the master of the Roman world thought fit to change his policy, and, suddenly declaring war against the Persians, commenced his march towards the East.

We are not told that he discovered, or even sought to discover, any fresh ground of complaint.