| Sapor had formed the resolution to renew the contest terminated so unfavorably forty years earlier by his grandfather. |
| The vast empire with which sapor had almost made up his mind to contend was partitioned out into three moderate-sized kingdoms. |
| He accordingly quitted Armenia and made his way to the court of sapor, where he was immediately seized and blinded. |
| 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. |
| For it seems certain that the return of sapor across the Euphrates was not effected without considerable loss and difficulty. |
| Mani, who had fled from sapor, ventured to return to Persia on the accession of his son, and was received with respect and favor. |
