arzema

Updated: July 26, 2025

The indignation and fears of the Persians suspended for a moment their intestine divisions. By the unanimous sentence of the priests and nobles, their queen Arzema was deposed; the sixth of the transient usurpers, who had arisen and vanished in three or four years since the death of Chosroes, and the retreat of Heraclius.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5