schirin

Updated: June 6, 2025

The beauty of Sira, or Schirin, her wit, her musical talents, are still famous in the history, or rather in the romances, of the East: her own name is expressive, in the Persian tongue, of sweetness and grace; and the epithet of Parviz alludes to the charms of her royal lover.

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