Note 098
From Chapter 52 of the Decline & Fall


He changed the old name of Sumera, or Samara, into the fanciful title of Sermen-raï, that which gives pleasure at first sight, (D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p. 808. D'Anville, l'Euphrate et le Tigre p. 97, 98.)

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