[Footnote 49: The Shah Nameh, or Book of Kings, is perhaps
the original record of history which was translated into
Greek by the interpreter Sergius, (Agathias, l. v. p. 141,)
preserved after the Mahometan conquest, and versified in the
year 994, by the national poet Ferdoussi. See D'Anquetil
(Mem. de l'Academie, tom. xxxi. p. 379) and Sir William
Jones, (Hist. of Nadir Shah, p. 161.)]