Note 660 — Chapter XI · THE STATE (B) STATE AND HISTORY
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
F. Cumont, Mysterien des Mithra (1910), pp. 74, et seq. The Sassanid government, which about A.D. 300 changed from the feudal union to the aristocratic State, was in all respects the pattern for Byzantium in ceremonial, in the knightly character of its Empire, in administrative management, and above all in the type of its Ruler. Cf. also A. Christensen, L’Empire des Sassanides, le peuple, l’état, la cour (Copenhagen, 1907).