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Bk. IV. Ch. VI. doubtful. The building is rich, and so interesting that it is to be hoped that its history and peculiarities will before long be investigated. With the accession of the Sassanians, a. d. 223, Persia regained

much of that power and stability to which she had been so long a stranger. The capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian by the 2d king of the race, a. d. 260, the conquest of Armenia and victories over Galerius by the 7th (296), and the exploits of the 14tli, Bahram Gaur,