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Updated: June 27, 2025
The terms, which are given at length by a writer of the succeeding generation, may be briefly expressed as follows: the Persians were to withdraw from Lazica, to give up all claim to it, and to hand over its possession to the Romans; they were in return to receive from Rome an annual sum of 30,000 pieces of gold, the amount due for the first seven years being paid in advance; the Christians in Persia were guaranteed the full and free exercise of their religion, but were forbidden to make converts from the disciples of Zoroaster; commercial intercourse was to be allowed between the two empires, but the merchants were restricted to the use of certain roads and certain emporia; diplomatic intercourse was to be wholly free, and the goods of ambassadors were to be exempt from duty; Daras was to continue a fortified town, but no new fortresses were to be built upon the frontier by either nation, and Daras itself was not to be made the headquarters of the Prefect of the East, or to be held by an unnecessarily large garrison; all disputes arising between the two nations were to be determined by courts of arbitration; the allies of the two nations were to be included in the treaty, and to participate in its benefits and obligations; Persia was to undertake the sole charge of maintaining the Caspian Gates against the Huns and Alans; the peace was made for a period of fifty years.
And purposing to make more speedy the robbery of what we have, behold, O King, what sort of a design they have formed; the supplies which are in excess among them they compel the Lazi to buy against their will, while those things which are most useful to them among the products of Lazica these fellows demand to buy, as they put it, from us, the price being determined in both cases by the judgment of the stronger party.
There was a short struggle at the Persian camp; but the Romans and Lazi captured it. Most of the Persians were here put to the sword; the few who escaped quitted Lazica and returned to their own country. Soon afterwards Dagisthseus was superseded by Bessas, and the siege of Petra was recommenced. The strength of the place had been considerably increased since the former attack upon it.
When this news was brought to the Persians, having been reduced to desperate straits by their ill success at Lazica, they feared that, if an army should cut them off in their critical position, they might all die of hunger amidst the crags and precipices of that inaccessible country.
According to them, Chosroes was bent upon holding Lazica in order to construct at the mouth of the Phasis a great naval station and arsenal, from which his fleets might issue to command the commerce or ravage the shores of the Black Sea. There is no doubt that the country was eminently fitted for such a purpose.
But when this river reaches the point which marks the termination of the Caucasus and of Iberia as well, there other waters also are added to it and it becomes much larger and from there flows on bearing the name of Phasis instead of Boas ; and it becomes a navigable stream as far as the so-called Euxine Sea into which it empties; and on either side of it lies Lazica.
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