Dara continued more than sixty years to fulfil the wishes of its founders, and to provoke the jealousy of the Persians, who incessantly complained, that this impregnable fortress had been constructed in manifest violation of the treaty of peace between the two empires.

[1371] [Footnote 1321: Firouz the Conqueror--unfortunately so named.

See St.
Martin, vol.vi.p.

439 .-- M.] [Footnote 1322: Rather Hepthalites .-- M.] [Footnote 133: They were purchased from the merchants of Adulis who traded to India, (Cosmas, Topograph.Christ.l.xi.p.

339;) yet, in the estimate of precious stones, the Scythian emerald was the first, the Bactrian the second, the Aethiopian only the third, (Hill's Theophrastus, p.