According to some of them, his temper was mild, and his conduct irreproachable.

Others say that he was a hard man, and so neglected the duties of his station that he would not even read the petitions or complaints which were addressed to him.

It would seem that there must have been some ground for these latter representations, since it is generally agreed that the cause of his death was a revolt of his troops, who surrounded him and shot at him with arrows.

One shaft, better directed than the rest, struck him in a vital part, and he fell and instantly expired.

Thus perished, in A.D.399, the third son of the Great Sapor, after a reign of eleven years..