[Footnote 214: Absit (said the Catholic to the vizier of
Bagdad) ut pari loco habeas Nestorianos, quorum praeter
Arabas nullus alius rex est, et Graecos quorum reges
amovendo Arabibus bello non desistunt, &c. See in the
Collections of Assemannus (Bibliot. Orient. tom. iv. p. 94 -
101) the state of the Nestorians under the caliphs. That of
the Jacobites is more concisely exposed in the Preliminary
Dissertation of the second volume of Assemannus.]