the sentence of his own death,
he dexterously inserted the names of four hundred officers, assembled
a military council, and asked the cadarigan whether he was prepared to
execute the commands of their tyrant. The Persians unanimously declared,
that Chosroes had forfeited the sceptre; a separate treaty was concluded
with the government of Constantinople; and if some considerations
of honor or policy restrained Sarbar from joining the standard of
Heraclius, the emperor was assured that he might prosecute, without
interruption, his designs of victory and peace.

[Footnote 98: The power of the Chozars prevailed in the viith, viiith,
and ixth centuries. They were known to the Greeks, the Arabs, and under
the name of Kosa, to the Chinese themselves. De Guignes, Hist. des Huns,
tom. ii. part ii. p. 507--509. * Note: Moses of Chorene speaks of an
invasion of Armenia by the Khazars in the second century, l. ii. c. 62.
M. St. Martin suspects them to be the same with the Hunnish nation
of the Acatires or Agazzires. They are called by the Greek historians
Eastern Turks; like the Madjars and other Hunnish or Finnish tribes,
they had probably received some admixture from the genuine Turkish
races. Ibn. Hankal (Oriental Geography) says that their language was
like the Bulgarian, and considers them a people of Finnish or Hunnish
race. Klaproth, Tabl. Hist. p. 268-273. Abel Remusat, Rech. sur les
Langues Tartares, tom. i. p. 315, 316. St. Martin, vol. xi. p. 115.--M]

[Footnote 99: Epiphania, or Eudocia, the only daughter of Heraclius and
his first wife Eudocia, was born at Constantinople on the 7th of July,
A.D. 611, baptized the 15th of August, and crowned (in the oratory of
St. Stephen in the palace) the 4th of October of the same year. At this
time she was about fifteen. Eudocia was afterwards sent to her Turkish
husband, but the news of his death stopped her journey, and prevented
the consummation, (Ducange, Familiae Byzantin. p. 118.)]

[Footnote 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]

Deprived of his firmest support, and doubtful of the fidelity of his
subjects, the greatness of Chosroes was still conspicuous in its ruins.
The number of five hundred thousand may be interpreted as an Oriental
metaphor, to describ