 The name of Shapur is known in other languages as; Greek "Sapur", "Sabour" and "Sapuris"; Latin "Sapores" and "Sapor"; Arabic "Sābur" and "Šābur"; New Persian "Šāpur", "Šāhpur", "Šahfur".When Hormizd II died in 309, he was succeeded by his son Adur Narseh, who, after a brief reign which lasted few months, was killed by some of the nobles of the empire.They then blinded the second, and imprisoned the third (Hormizd, who afterwards escaped to the Roman Empire).