He was repelled by miracle: his elephant would not advance, but knelt down before the sacred place; Abrahah fled, discomfited and mortally wounded, to Sana--M.] [Footnote 100: The revolutions of Yemen in the sixth century must be collected from Procopius, (Persic.l.i.c.19, 20,) Theophanes Byzant., (apud Phot.cod.lxiii.p.

80,) St.Theophanes, (in Chronograph.

p.
144, 145, 188, 189, 206, 207, who is full of strange blunders,) Pocock, (Specimen Hist.Arab.p.62, 65,) D'Herbelot, (Bibliot.

Orientale, p.
12, 477,) and Sale's Preliminary Discourse and Koran, (c.

105.) The revolt of Abrahah is mentioned by Procopius; and his fall, though clouded with miracles, is an historical fact.