His Rejection by Sapor.

Sapor's Death.

His Character._ [Illustration: CHAPTER-4] Artaxerxes appears to have died in A.D.240.

He was succeeded by his son, Shahpuhri, or Sapor, the first Sassanian prince of that name.
According to the Persian historians, the mother of Sapor was a daughter of the last Parthian king, Artabanus, whom Artaxerxes had taken to wife after his conquest of her father.

But the facts known of Sapor throw doubt on this story, which has too many parallels in Oriental romance to claim implicit credence.