The power and ambition of Chosroes cemented the union of the Turks and Romans, who touched his dominions on either side: but those distant nations, regardless of each other, consulted the dictates of interest, without recollecting the obligations of oaths and treaties.
While the successor of Disabul celebrated his father's obsequies, he was saluted by the ambassadors of the emperor Tiberius, who proposed an invasion of Persia, and sustained, with firmness, the angry and perhaps the just reproaches of that haughty Barbarian.

"You see my ten fingers," said the great khan, and he applied them to his mouth.

"You Romans speak with as many tongues, but they are tongues of deceit and perjury.

To me you hold one language, to my subjects another; and the nations are successively deluded by your perfidious eloquence.

You precipitate your allies into war and danger, you enjoy their labors, and you neglect your benefactors.