sarbar

Updated: May 22, 2025

Sarbar, the general of the third army, penetrated through the provinces of Asia to the well-known camp of Chalcedon, and amused himself with the destruction of the sacred and profane buildings of the Asiatic suburbs, while he impatiently waited the arrival of his Scythian friends on the opposite side of the Bosphorus.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

For yourselves, I shall permit you to depart, each with an under-garment and a shirt; and, at my entreaty, my friend Sarbar will not refuse a passage through his lines.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

The Persians unanimously declared, that Chosroes had forfeited the sceptre; a separate treaty was concluded with the government of Constantinople; and if some considerations of honor or policy restrained Sarbar from joining the standard of Heraclius, the emperor was assured that he might prosecute, without interruption, his designs of victory and peace.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

The despatches were transmitted to Sarbar himself; and as soon as he read the sentence of his own death, he dexterously inserted the names of four hundred officers, assembled a military council, and asked the cadarigan whether he was prepared to execute the commands of their tyrant.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

Sarbar still maintained the important station of Chalcedon; but the jealousy of Chosroes, or the artifice of Heraclius, soon alienated the mind of that powerful satrap from the service of his king and country.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4