ʿIyâd's last stand

Michael the Syrian set our fun little tale of rapine between "958 des Grecs, 25 des Taiyâyê, 5 de Constans" and AG 9?8; he adds that Titus fled to Âmid. The 1234 Chronicle puts this story between AG 951 and AG... 950; in the AG 951 account hero ʿIyâd dies in... Âmid. Either way the story belongs to Âmid; Dionysius of Telmahre told it after, perhaps, a general account of ʿIyâd in the Mesopotamía. ʿIyâd has supposedly returned home to Damascus so has been called upon to ride out like a Western gunslinger.

The 1234 considers Âmid as a city that did not resist the Tayyaye as had Dara and Tella. Although, ʿIyâd died violently therein. Also the other "peaceful" region here is the Mardîn-ReshʿAyna complex and there are those who might, at the time, dispute this eirenic view.

Chabot's Titus avec ses gens assumes something like Titus erat des gens de ... which Michael's Syriac doesn't offer. 1234 supplies: With them was a certain Titus, a Syrian by race, who commanded a company from one of the cities. That is: one of the cities in that earlier list as had not surrendered to ʿIyâd's Arabs just yet. It may or may not be Âmid; Titus may (by then) have become more comfortable offering his now-neutral troops to an Arab-aligned town.

I don't know Bet-Maʿde or Bemaʿda or whatever, sadly. If I look East, I find at least three Mʿarê, or Mʿarrê (#76=Mar ʿAbda). Assuming Dionysius misdotted this consonant then this particular Bet seems of the Edessa region, as befits a meeting of Greek and Armenian.