mardia

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Licinius passed through that city, and breaking down the bridge on the Save, hastened to collect a new army in Dacia and Thrace. In his flight he bestowed the precarious title of Cæsar on Valens, his general of the Illyrian frontier. Part IV. The plain of Mardia in Thrace was the theatre of a second battle no less obstinate and bloody than the former.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1