The vast empire with which sapor had almost made up his mind to contend was partitioned out into three moderate-sized kingdoms. |
It appears that sapor took offence at the tone of the communication, which was not sufficiently humble to please him. |
Sapor had formed the resolution to renew the contest terminated so unfavorably forty years earlier by his grandfather. |
But, though the savour bee so base, the sapor is so excellent, that no meat, no sauce, no vessell pleases the Guzurats pallat, save what relishes of it. |
Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor? |
He accordingly quitted Armenia and made his way to the court of sapor, where he was immediately seized and blinded. |