[1] Gurgenes can be identified with Vakhtang I of Iberia of the Georgian sources; and Peranius might have been his brother rather than a son as suggested by Procopius.
[1] They placed themselves under Roman protection and left for Constantinople where Peranius joined the Byzantine imperial army.
The Persian king Khosrow I (r. 531–579), demanded the surrender of Peranius and Peter on the grounds that they were his hereditary slave.
When a Sassanid contingent under Azarethes threatened to break into the city through one of the gates, Peranius led reinforcements of soldiers and citizens to the spot and averted the danger.
Soon after the end of the siege of Edessa, Peranius died of severe injuries sustained in a fall from his horse while hunting.