Note 100 Elmcain (Hist. Saracen. p. 13 - 16) gives some curious and probable facts; but his numbers are rather too high - 300,000 Romans assembled at Edessa - 500,000 Persians killed at Nineveh. The abatement of a cipher is scarcely enough to restore his sanity]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 46