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Several of the Armenians who accompanied the Persians came to the emperor at night and said: ‘Chosroes with his elephants and his own army is encamped five miles on this side of the palace called Dastagerd, in a place called Barasroth, and he has given instructions that his forces should assemble there and fight you.
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For who had expected that Chosroes would flee before the Roman emperor from his palace at Dastagerd and go off to Ctesiphon, when, for twenty-four years, he would not suffer to behold Ctesiphon, but had his royal residence at Dastagerd?
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The emperor celebrated at Dastagerd the feast of the Epiphany; he gladdened and restored his army while he destroyed the palaces of Chosroes.
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As for the emperor, he set out from Dastagerd on 7 January and, after marching three days, encamped twelve miles from the river Narbas, where the Persian camp lay and where they had 200 elephants.
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Twenty-four years earlier, when he besieged Daras in the days of the Roman emperor Phokas, he had been given an oracle by his magicians and astrologers, namely that he would perish at the time he went to Ctesiphon; and although he would not suffer to go one mile in that direction from Dastagerd, he now went to Ctesiphon as he fled.
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So the emperor sent one half of his army to Dastagerd, while he himself went by a different road to another palace called Bebdarch.
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In his palace of Dastagerd the Roman army found 300 Roman standards which the Persians had captured at different times.
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Constantinople was fortified, and with a gigantic effort, worthy of the great conquerors of the world's history, Heraclius drove back the Persians, cutting them off in Celicia, and forcing them finally to make an abject appeal for mercy in the very royal palace of Dastagerd itself.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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From the palace of Dastagerd, he pursued his march within a few miles of Modain or
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The discovery of his flight agitated with terror and tumult the palace, the city, and the camp of Dastagerd: the satraps hesitated whether they had most to fear from their sovereign or the enemy; and the females of the harem were astonished and pleased by the sight of mankind, till the jealous husband of three thousand wives again confined them to a more distant castle.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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