402) and Greece, (Procop.Persic.l.i.c.

5.)] [Footnote 40: He offered his own wife and sister to the prophet; but the prayers of Nushirvan saved his mother, and the indignant monarch never forgave the humiliation to which his filial piety had stooped: pedes tuos deosculatus (said he to Mazdak,) cujus foetor adhuc nares occupat, (Pocock, Specimen Hist.Arab.p.

71.)] [Footnote 4011: St.Martin questions this adoption: he urges its improbability; and supposes that Procopius, perverting some popular traditions, or the remembrance of some fruitless negotiations which took place at that time, has mistaken, for a treaty of adoption some treaty of guaranty or protection for the purpose of insuring the crown, after the death of Kobad, to his favorite son Chosroes, vol.viii.p.

32.

Yet the Greek historians seem unanimous as to the proposal: the Persians might be expected to maintain silence on such a subject .-- M.] [Footnote 41: Procopius, Persic.l.i.c.11.