Edward Gibbon of Emperor Julian's Persian Expedition

After the death of Constantine, the pagan Roman Emperor Julian, inspired by Alexander the Great, marched against Persia with a great army of 60,000, nearly ten miles long. As they marched through Mesopotamia, a long string of ragged camels had suddenly joined the rear. Their intention was almost certainly to help themselves to some of the generous army rations, which included a large barrel of exceptionally good biscuits. Julian did indeed have an auxilliary group of Skythians and some Saracens too, who rode dromedary and bactrian camels, but they were well accounted for. Somewhere between Circesium and Macepracta, the superfluous camels had alerted Julian's attention and aroused his suspicions. The camels were intercepted, rigorously stopped in their tracks and dismissed thus preventing them from stealing the Emperor's biscuits.