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| | Hormizd II of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hormizd II, king of Persia, son of Narseh, reigned for seven years and five months, 302-309. |
 | | After his death his oldest son Adarnases was killed by the grandees after a very short reign, as he showed a cruel disposition; another son, Hormizd, was kept a prisoner, and the throne reserved for the child with which a concubine of Hormizd II was pregnant and which received the name Shapur II. |
 | | In 363, Hormizd served in the army of Julian against Persia; his son, with the same name, afterwards served in the Roman government as a proconsul (Ammianus Marcellinus 26. |
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