PERSABO´RA
PERSABO´RA (
Πηρσαβῶπα, Zosim. 3.17), a very strong place in Mesopotamia, on the W.. bank of the Euphrates, to which the emperor Julian came in his march across that country. Zosimus, who gives a detailed account of its siege, states that it was in size and importance second only to Ctesiphon. Ammianus, speaking of the same war, calls the place Pirisabora (24.100.2); and Libanius Soph. mentions a city of the same name as the then ruling king of Persia, evidently supposing that it derived its name from Sapor (or
Shahpúr). (
Orat. Fun. p. 315.) Forbiger has conjectured that it is represented by the present
Aubar, and that it was situated near the part of the river Euphrates whence the canal
Nahr-sares flows, and no great distance from the Sipphara of Ptolemy (
5.18.7).
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