Absit (said the Catholic to the vizier of
Bagdad)ut pari loco habeas Nestorianos, quorum praeter
Arabas nullus alius rex est, et Graecos quorum reges
amovendo Arabibus bello non desistunt, etc.
See in the Collections of Assemannus (Bibliot. Orient. tom. iv. p. 94 - 101) the state of the Nestorians under the caliphs. That of the Jacobites is more concisely exposed in the Preliminary Dissertation of the second volume of Assemannus.