_alii per Caspia claustra
Armeniasque nives, inopino tramite ducti
Invadunt Orientis opes: jam pascua fumant
Cappadocum, volucrumque parens Argaeus equorum.
Jam rubet altus Halys, nec se defendit iniquo
Motlte Cilix; Syriæ tractus vastantur amæni
Assuetumque choris, et laetâ plebe canorum,
Proterit imbellem sonipes hostilis Orontem. Claudian, in Rufin. l. ii. 28-35.
See likewise, in Eutrop. 1. i. 243-251, and the strong description of Jerom, who wrote from his feelings, tom. i. p. 26, ad Heliodor. p. 200, ad Ocean. [p. 342 and 460 ed. Vallars.]. Philostorgius (1. ix. c. 8 [17]) mentions this irruption.