[Footnote 50: In the fifth century, the name of Restom, or
Rostam, a hero who equalled the strength of twelve
elephants, was familiar to the Armenians, (Moses
Chorenensis, Hist. Armen. l. ii. c. 7, p. 96, edit.
Whiston.) In the beginning of the seventh, the Persian
Romance of Rostam and Isfendiar was applauded at Mecca,
(Sale's Koran, c. xxxi. p. 335.) Yet this exposition of
ludicrum novae historiae is not given by Maracci, (Refutat.
Alcoran. p. 544 - 548.)]