He is the best of Sapors.

Meats have no sapor, nor digestion fair play, in a crowd.

Sapor defied Rome herself, and dragged the Emperor Valerian in disgraceful captivity to Ctesiphon, his capital.

Sapor II. was the conqueror of the Emperor Julian, and Chrosroes was an equally formidable adversary.

sapor et sapientia non est: Omnis et in paruis bene qui scit desipuisse, Saepe supercilijs palmam sapientibus aufert.

Know you the sapor pontic?

sapor stiptic, Or what is homogene, or heterogene?" Lines like the following show that Jonson's acute mind had grasped something of the principle of evolution: "...'twere absurd To think that nature in the earth bred gold Perfect in the instant: something went before.

[Footnote 7: "De' frutti a lui del Paradiso diero, Di tal sapor, ch'a suo giudizio, sanza Scusa non sono i due primi parenti, Se pur quei fur si poco ubbidienti.

Such a one was Jupiter Menecrates, Maximinus, Jovianus, Dioclesianus Herculeus, Sapor the Persian king, brother of the sun and moon, and our modern Turks, that will be gods on earth, kings of kings, God's shadow, commanders of all that may be commanded, our kings of China and Tartary in this present age.

"Valerian is taken by Sapor and flead alive, A. D. 260."Lempriere's Chron.

"Valerian was taken by Sapor and flayed alive, A. D. 260."Lempriere cor.

He relates how Sapor, king of Persia, besieged the strong city of Atrae, in the desert of Mesopotamia, for several years without being able to take it.

Now it fell out that, while she tarried there, Sapor saw her and loved her, and she loved him; for he was a handsome man and she a lovely maid.

And Sapor did as she bade him, and the city fell down in a heap, and he stormed it and slew Daizan on the spot.[207]