公元四二○年，东罗马帝国和波斯战争期间，七千波斯人被俘，送到阿米达。他们缺乏供给，困苦不堪。

In the year 420, during the war between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia, 7000 Persians were brought prisoners to Amida, where they suffered extreme want.

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从此起步，他很快开始了长期的战争叫嚣，与东罗马帝国首都君士坦丁堡和西罗马帝国首都拉汶纳进行谈判。

From that base he soon began a long series of saber-rattling negotiations with the capitals of the Roman Empire at Constantinople in the East and Ravenna in the West.

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There were always battles and wars going on, on the boundaries, the frontiers of the Roman Empire, but within the center of the empire there was an amazing period of peace.

战争永远都在进行，在边界，罗马帝国边境，但在帝国中心却是一派和平盛世。

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