[Footnote 22: The whole series of the tyranny of Hormouz,
the revolt of Bahram, and the flight and restoration of
Chosroes, is related by two contemporary Greeks - more
concisely by Evagrius, (l. vi. c. 16, 17, 18, 19,) and most
diffusely by Theophylact Simocatta, (l. iii. c. 6 - 18, l.
iv. c. 1 - 16, l. v. c. 1 - 15:) succeeding compilers,
Zonaras and Cedrenus, can only transcribe and abridge. The
Christian Arabs, Eutychius (Annal. tom. ii. p. 200 - 208)
and Abulpharagius (Dynast. p. 96 - 98) appear to have
consulted some particular memoirs. The great Persian
historians of the xvth century, Mirkhond and Khondemir, are
only known to me by the imperfect extracts of Schikard,
(Tarikh, p. 150 - 155,) Texeira, or rather Stevens, (Hist.
of Persia, p. 182 - 186,) a Turkish Ms. translated by the
Abbe Fourmount, (Hist. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.
vii. p. 325 - 334,) and D'Herbelot, (aux mots Hormouz, p.
457 - 459. Bahram, p. 174. Khosrou Parviz, p. 996.) Were I
perfectly satisfied of their authority, I could wish these
Oriental materials had been more copious.]