macepracta

Updated: May 8, 2025

These preliminaries of the expedition of Julian appear to have employed about fifteen days; and we may compute near three hundred miles from the fortress of Circesium to the wall of Macepracta.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

The fertile province of Assyria, which stretched beyond the Tigris, as far as the mountains of Media, extended about four hundred miles from the ancient wall of Macepracta, to the territory of Basra, where the united streams of the Euphrates and Tigris discharge themselves into the Persian Gulf.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

But the Barbarians were finally repulsed; the country became every day less favorable to the operations of cavalry; and when the Romans arrived at Macepracta, they perceived the ruins of the wall, which had been constructed by the ancient kings of Assyria, to secure their dominions from the incursions of the Medes.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2