1. Richard N. Frye, The History of Ancient Iran (1983), p. 309; Muhammed ibn Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari, vol. 5 (1999), pp. 51–52.

2. al-Tabari, History, vol. 5, pp. 54–55.

3. Ibid., pp. 52–53.

4. T. D. Barnes, «Constantine and the Christians of Persia». The Journal of Roman

Studies, 75 (1985), p. 132; also see Eusebius, Life of Constantine, 4.8

5. al-Tabari, History, vol. 5, p. 155.

6. Vahan M. Kurkjian, A History of Armenia (1958), pp. 119–120.

7. Schaff and Wace, Select Library, vol. 13, p. 244; Barnes, p. 128; Aphrahat, «Demonstration XXI: Of Persecution», in Schaff and Wace, Select Library, vol. 13, p. 519.

8. Barnes, p. 132; Eusebius, Life of Constantine, 4.56–57.

9. Scarre, p. 221; Eusebius, Life of Constantine, 4.75.

10. Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, p. 310.

11. Christopher S. Mackay, Ancient Rome (2004), p. 316.

12. Ibid., p. 317.

13. Frye, History of Ancient Iran, p. 310.

14. Ammianus Marcellinus, The History of Ammianus Marcellinus, (1982), vol. 1, 18.6.21–22.

15. Ibid., 18.8

16. Ibid., 19.3