"Comites Sagittarii (Household mounted archers)" . . "Siege of Amida"@en . . . "Legions fromGaulloyal toMagnentius" . . "Legio X Fretensis" . . "Most defenders, some citizens, some refugees from countryside" . . . "Legio V Parthica (garrison force)" . . . "Sassanid Empire" . "Legio XXX Ulpia" . "The Siege of Amida took place when the Sassanids (Persian: \u0633\u0627\u0633\u0627\u0646\u064A\u200E\u200E), under Shah Shapur II (Persian: \u0634\u0627\u067E\u0648\u0631 \u062F\u0648\u0645\u200E\u200E) besieged the Roman city of Amida in 359.In this battle Ammianus Marcellinus, a historian of Greek origin from Antioch, was a Roman army officer; he described the siege in his work (Res Gestae)."@en . "DecisiveSassanidvictory" . . "Gelani" . "Superventores," . "Praeventores" . "Segestani" . . "Albani" . "Roman Empire" . "Xionites" . . "Sassanid army" .