[Footnote 21: The Greeks only describe her as a Roman by
birth, a Christian by religion: but she is represented as
the daughter of the emperor Maurice in the Persian and
Turkish romances which celebrate the love of Khosrou for
Schirin, of Schirin for Ferhad, the most beautiful youth of
the East, D'Herbelot, Biblioth. Orient. p. 789, 997, 998.]