. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. nt of the same taxes ; and the arrears of asimple citizen, the treasurer of Damascus, were commuted to a fine of onehundred thousand pieces of gold. The loss of two hundred thousandsoldiers who had fallen by the sword, was of less fatal importance than thedecay of arts, agriculture, and population, in this long and destructive war:and although a victorious army had been formed under the standard ofHeraclius, the unnatural e
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. nt of the same taxes ; and the arrears of asimple citizen, the treasurer of Damascus, were commuted to a fine of onehundred thousand pieces of gold. The loss of two hundred thousandsoldiers who had fallen by the sword, was of less fatal importance than thedecay of arts, agriculture, and population, in this long and destructive war:and although a victorious army had been formed under the standard ofHeraclius, the unnatural effort appears to have exhausted rather than exer-cised their strength. While the emperor triumphed at Constantinople orJerusalem, an obscure town on the confines of Syria was pillaged by theSaracens, and they cut in pieces some troops who advanced to its relief : anordinary and trifling occurrence, had it not been the prelude of a mightyrevolution. These robbers were the apostles of Mohammed ; their fanaticvalour had emerged from the desert; and in the last eight years of hisreign Heraclius lost to the Arabs the same provinces which he had rescuedfrom the Persians.^. CHAPTER VI. HERACLIUS AND HIS SUCCESSORS [610-717 ] Everyone who reads the history of Heraclius, says Bury,& is met bythe problems: how did the great hero of the last Persian War spend the firstten years of his reign ; and why did he relapse into lethargy after his finaltriumph ? Many explanations have been attempted to account for the actions of thisman, who first built up an empire, and then allowed it to crumble under hisfeet. Burys explanation is the assumption that his will was naturally weakand his sensibilities strong, and that for a time he was raised above himself,as it were, by an inspired enthusiasm. When in later years this cloak of en-thusiasm was withdrawn, the weakness of his true character was laid The reign of Heraclius is one of the most remarkable epochs, both in thehistory of the empi
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