[Footnote 1: Missis qui ... reposcerent ... veteres Persarum
ac Macedonum terminos, seque invasurum possessa Cyro et post
Alexandro, per vaniloquentiam ac minas jaciebat. Tacit.
Annal. vi. 31. Such was the language of the Arsacides. I
have repeatedly marked the lofty claims of the Sassanians.]