THIS city, after the fall of Ninive, was long the capital of Adiabene,
in Assyria, and was one bishopric with Hazza, anciently called Adiab.
Arbeta, now called Irbil, was famous for the victory of Alexander; but
received far greater lustre from the martyrdom of St. Abraamius, its
bishop, who sealed his faith with his blood, after having suffered
horrible torments, which were inflicted by order of an arch magian, in
the fifth year of king Sapor's persecution, that is, of Christ 348. See
Sozomen, l. 2, c. 12 and the Greek Menaea and Synaxary.