They handed over to the Persians a thousand pounds' weight of gold, and received in exchange the captured city and territory.

A treaty was signed by which the contracting powers undertook to remain at peace and respect each other's dominions for the space of seven years.

No definite arrangement seems to have been made with respect to the yearly payment on account of the fortress, Birapa-rach, the demand for which had occasioned the war.

This claim remained in abeyance, to be pressed or neglected, as Persia might consider her interests to require.
The Ephthalite war, which compelled Kobad to make peace with Anastasius, appears to have occupied him uninterruptedly for ten years.

During its continuance Rome took advantage of her rival's difficulties to continue the system (introduced under the younger Theodosius) of augmenting her own power, and crippling that of Persia, by establishing strongly fortified posts upon her border in the immediate vicinity of Persian territory.