Note 52 — Notes on the Woodcuts.

Then Heraclius made war against Chosroes, and meeting with a Persian army under one of the sons of that monarch, it was agreed that, in order to prevent a useless effusion of blood, the two commanders should fight it out between them, and whoever was vanquished should submit.52 The duel was fought on a bridge over the Danube, and Heraclius vanquished and killed the son of Chosroes.53 The Persian army then made their submission,54 and the penance imposed upon them by the conqueror was that they should all be baptized, which was duly done.