5/29 550.) Marcellinus, in his Chronicle, uses the style of Medes and Persians.] [Footnote 58: Procopius, Persic.l.i.c. 26.] [Footnote 59: Almondar, king of Hira, was deposed by Kobad, and restored by Nushirvan. His mother, from her beauty, was surnamed Celestial Water, an appellation which became hereditary, and was extended for a more noble cause (liberality in famine) to the Arab princes of Syria, (Pocock, Specimen Hist.Arab.p.69, 70.)] [Footnote 60: Procopius, Persic.l.ii.c.1. We are ignorant of the origin and object of this strata, a paved road of ten days' journey from Auranitis to Babylonia. |