Sapor

This heroic chief escaped the power of a foe who might either have honored or punished his obstinate valor; but many thousands of his fellow-citizens were involved in a general massacre, and Sapor is accused of treating his prisoners with wanton and unrelenting cruelty.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The coronation of the mother of Sapor is likewise mentioned by Snikard, (Tarikh.p. 116,) and D’Herbelot (Bibliotheque Orientale, p. 703.)] * The author of the

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

In the meantime the Persians have woken up under Sapor and attempt to conquer Mesopotamia but make only modest gains.

Gibbon Chapter XIX

Sapor I, a Sassanid shah, chose to humiliate his captured foe, the Roman emperor Valerian, in 259 AD by forcing the emperor to kneel and act as a footstool so Sapor could mount his horse: the shah then had Valerian executed.

The Earliest Horse Whisperers

Alexander the Great and preceded Sapor caused some seventy books to be composed, amongst which were the Liber Maruc, Liber Barsínas,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

Valerian stomped in, Sapor snapped his fingers and Valerian ended up a live trophy, dragged around in chains through every city in the Persian empire till his purple robes were shreds.

BUSH DUMB ENOUGH TO ATTACK IRAN

Sapor ordered the slaves to cook a big banquet, bring out the best silverware -- and had his troops hide in the banquet hall till he gave the signal.

BUSH DUMB ENOUGH TO ATTACK IRAN

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.

Anatomy of Melancholy

Valerian figured a little proactive salesmanship would settle things, so he demanded a meeting with the Persian emperor, Sapor -- who couldn't believe his luck.

BUSH DUMB ENOUGH TO ATTACK IRAN

Shapur I (Sapor) had been co-ruler with his father, Ardashir, since 240.

b. Ardashir I to Shapur II