[Footnote 107: On the first rumor of the death of Chosroes,
an Heracliad in two cantos was instantly published at
Constantinople by George of Pisidia, (p. 97 - 105.) A priest
and a poet might very properly exult in the damnation of the
public enemy but such mean revenge is unworthy of a king and
a conqueror; and I am sorry to find so much black
superstition in the letter of Heraclius: he almost applauds
the parricide of Siroes as an act of piety and justice.]