Note 121
The pompous language of Rome on the
submission of a Nestorian patriarch, is elegantly
represented in the viith book of Fra Paola, Babylon,
Nineveh, Arbela, and the trophies of Alexander, Tauris, and
Ecbatana, the Tigris and Indus.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 47