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Sarus may refer to:
Germanic culture
- Sarus (Sörli), a son of the Norse mythological king, Jonakr
- Sarus (Serila), a semi-historic figure who, in the fourth century, on behalf of his sister Svanhildr, attacked Ermanaric, king of the Ostrogoths
- Sarus the Goth, a blood enemy and leading rival of Ataulf, king of the Visigoths, in the early fifth century
Other uses
- Sarus, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Sarus River, the ancient name of the Seyhan River in Adana Province (Cilicia), Turkey
- Sarus crane (Grus antigone), a large non-migratory crane
- Battle of Sarus, a battle fought in 625 between the East Roman (Byzantine) army, led by Emperor Heraclius, and the Persian general Shahrbaraz
- Aerocopter Sarus, a "mono-tilt-rotor rotary-ring" VTOL aircraft under development by Aerocopter Inc.
- Balázs Sarus (born 1988), Hungarian football player
Usage examples of "sarus".
Sarus, bred a generous race of horses, renowned above all others in the ancient world for their majestic shape and incomparable swiftness.
He attacked Sarus at an unguarded moment, when he was accompanied only by eighteen or twenty of his valiant followers.
His indignation was kindled by the report, that a rival chieftain, that Sarus, the personal enemy of Adolphus, and the hereditary foe of the house of Balti, had been received into the palace.
Ma at that Comana in a Cappadocian valley between the upper Sarus and the upper Pyramus Rivers.
When the boy king who was the son of Mithridates asserted his right to rule aloneno doubt supported by his fatherGordius intended to make sure that he was given the temple kingdom of Ma at that Comana in a Cappadocian valley between the upper Sarus and the upper Pyramus Rivers.
The valor of Sarus, his fame in arms, and his personal, or hereditary, influence over the confederate Barbarians, could recommend him only to the friends of their country, who despised, or detested, the worthless characters of Turpilio, Varanes, and Vigilantius.
He had imprudently received into his service one of the followers of Sarus.
In the double city of Mopsuestia, which is divided by the River Sarus, two hundred thousand Moslems were predestined to death or slavery, ^115 a surprising degree of population, which must at least include the inhabitants of the dependent districts.
I thus conjectured, with Rim, and Marlenus, that Sarus of Tyros, leader of the enemy, held some ninety-six men.