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He found, when he came back to Persia, that the governors he had left in the cities had thought that he was sure to perish in India, and had plundered shamefully, so that he had to punish severely both Greeks and Persians; but then, to make the two nations friends, he held an immense wedding feast at Susa, when eighty Greek bridegrooms married eighty Persian brides.
And when he sat down with his knees near to theirs, actually trying to eat a large Italian apple himself simply because they had eaten one, and discussed with them the passage over the Mont Cenis, he began to think that Susa was, after all, a place in which an hour and a half might be whiled away without much cause for complaint.
"This is the man," they said, "who destroyed the Lacedæmonian dominion over sea and land, and who reduced to the little state at the foot of Taygetus by the Eurotas, that Sparta which a little while before went to war under Agesilaus with the Great King himself about Susa and Ecbatana."
Sometimes he laughed, loudly, immoderately and coarsely; but this was only when intoxicated, a condition which had long ceased to be unusual with him. He continued to retain an aversion to his wives; so much so that the royal harem was to be left behind in Susa, though all his court took their favorite wives and concubines with them on the campaign.
After a noble defence, Harmozan, the prince or satrap of Ahwaz and Susa, was compelled to surrender his person and his state to the discretion of the caliph; and their interview exhibits a portrait of the Arabian manners.
"I was talking to the king about it to-day. He had intended not to leave before the Massagetan war, and to go straight from Babylon into the field, but to-day's embassy has changed matters; it is probable that there may be no war, and then we shall go to Susa three days after the king's marriage that is, in one week from the present time." "To Susa?" cried the cup-bearer.
Sometimes he laughed, loudly, immoderately and coarsely; but this was only when intoxicated, a condition which had long ceased to be unusual with him. He continued to retain an aversion to his wives; so much so that the royal harem was to be left behind in Susa, though all his court took their favorite wives and concubines with them on the campaign.
They appreciated the merits of the action of which their general had spoken in such warm terms, and the fact that in point of military rank he was now above them concerned them in no way. It was a merry supper at the best hotel in Susa. "You see now, de Lisle," Chavigny said, "the advantage of taking a morning dip in snow water.
Gisela, d. of Hermann II, Duke of Swabia. | + HENRY III, 1039-1056, m. 1, Gunhilda, daughter of Cnut; 2, Agnes, daughter of William, Count of Poitiers. | + HENRY IV, 1056-1106, m. 1, Bertha, daughter of Otto, Marquis of Susa; | + HENRY V, 1106-1125, m. | Matilda, d. of Henry I of England. | + Agnes, m. 1, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia, 1080-1105; | + Frederick the One-eyed, Duke of Swabia, d. 1147, m. 1, Judith, daughter of Henry the Black. | + FREDERICK I, Barbarossa, 1152-1190. | | | + HENRY VI, 1190-1197, m. | | Constance of Sicily, d. 1198. | | | | | + FREDERICK II, 1214-1250, m. | | 1, Constance, d. of | | Alfonso II of Aragon; | | | | | + CONRAD IV, 1250-1254, m. | | | Elizabeth, daughter of | | | Otto II of Bavaria. | | | | | | | + Conradin, d. 1268. | | | | | + Manfred, d. 1266. | | | | 2, Iolande de Brienne; | | | | 3, Isabella, d. of | | John of England. | | | + PHILIP, 1198-1208, m. | Irene, d. of Isaac II, | Angelus, Eastern Emperor. | | | + Beatrix, m. | OTTO IV, 1208-1214, | d. 1218. | + CONRAD III, 1137-1152.
Of greater duration was the influence exercised over Elam by the kings of Ur, for bricks and contract-tablets have been found at Susa proving that Dungi, one of the most powerful kings of Ur, and Bur-Sin, Ine-Sin, and Oamil-Sin, kings of the second dynasty in that city, all in turn included Elam within the limits of their empire.
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