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Synopsis:\xa0 Zenobia orders her general Zabdas to capture Anatolia.\xa0 After subduing the Marcomanni and the Goths, Aurelian makes preparations to reclaim the East.\n\n\n\u201c(Aurelian) was naturally of a severe disposition.\xa0 A peasant and a soldier, his nerves yielded not easily to the impressions of sympathy, and he could sustain without emotion the sight of tortures and death.\xa0 Trained from his earliest youth in the exercise of arms, he set too small a value on the life of a citizen, chastised by military execution the slightest offences, and transferred the stern discipline of the camp into the civil administration of the laws.\u201d \u2013 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\n\u201cSince there were in the army two tribunes, both named Aurelian\u2026the soldiers game him the nickname of \u2018Sword-in-hand,\u2019 so that, if anyone chanced to ask which Aurelian had done anything or performed any exploit, the reply would be made \u2018Aurelian Sword-in-hand,\u2019 and so he would be identified.\u201d \u2013 The Historia Augusta\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices