Note 269 — Chapter XVI · YEZDEGIRD SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE OF PERSIA.—BATTLE OF CADESIYA. A.H. XIV. A.D. 635.

The battle lasted three days, and each day, it will be observed, had a different name. The first, Armâth; the second, Aghwâth (alluding, as some think, to the succour brought that day by the Syrian contingent); the third, Ghimâs; the final night,Harîr (noise or clangour). The last is the only name which clearly has a meaning, as we shall see. The others may have been taken from names of places. See C. de Perceval, vol. iii. p. 484. Gibbon (ch. li.), ignoring the first day, translates the other three as signifying Succour, Concussion, and Barking.