Original: The Persian King Shapur II , having failed on the battlefield , now proposed to Valens in 375 that Armenia which he called the perpetual source of trouble , be evacuated or that Roman forces be withdrawn from the Western part of Caucasian Iberia ruled by Sauromaces .
Simplified: Shapur II , having failed on the battlefield , now proposed to Valens in 375 that Armenia be divided between the two powers .