s, (Persic. l. i. c. 3--6,) who may be compared
with the fragments of Oriental history, (D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p.
351, and Texeira, History of Persia, translated or abridged by Stephens,
l. i. c. 32, p. 132--138.) The chronology is ably ascertained by
Asseman. (Bibliot. Orient. tom. iii. p. 396--427.)]

[Footnote 1351: When Firoze advanced, Khoosh-Nuaz (the king of the Huns)
presented on the point of a lance the treaty to which he had sworn,
and exhorted him yet to desist before he destroyed his fame forever.
Malcolm, vol. i. p. 103.--M.]

[Footnote 136: The Persian war, under the reigns of Anastasius and
Justin, may be collected from Procopius, (Persic. l. i. c. 7, 8, 9,)
Theophanes, (in Chronograph. p. 124--127,) Evagrius, (l. iii. c. 37,)
Marcellinus, (in Chron. p. 47,) and Josue Stylites, (apud Asseman. tom.
i. p. 272--281.)]

[Footnote 1361: Gibbon should have written "some prostitutes." Proc
Pers. vol. 1 p. 7.--M.]

[Footnote 137: The description of Dara is amply and correctly given by
Procopius, (Persic. l. i. c. 10, l. ii. c. 13. De Edific. l. ii. c. 1,
2, 3, l. iii. c. 5.) See the situation in D'Anville, (l'Euphrate et le
Tigre, p. 53, 54, 55,) though he seems to double the interval between
Dara and Nisibis.]

[Footnote 1371: The situation (of Dara) does not appear to give
it strength, as it must have been commanded on three sides by the
mountains, but opening on the south towards the plains of Mesopotamia.
The foundation of the walls and towers, built of large hewn stone, may
be traced across the valley, and over a number of low rocky hills which
branch out from the foot of Mount Masius. The circumference I conceive
to be nearly two miles and a half; and a small stream, which flows
through the middle of the place, has induced several Koordish and
Armenian families to fix their residence within the ruins. Besides the
walls and towers, the remains of many other buildings attest the former
grandeur of Dara; a considerable part of the space within the walls is
arched and vaulted underneath, and in one place we perceived a large
cavern, supported by four ponderous columns, somewhat resembling the
great cistern of Constantinople. In the centre of the village are the
ruins of a palace (probably that mentioned by Procopius) or church, one
hundred paces in length, and sixty in breadth. The foundations, which
are quite entire, consist of a prodigious number of subterraneous
vaulted chambers, entered by a na