History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

HISTORY OF ARMENIA. 73
he would deliver them from the power of Antiochus,
who was then upon the throne.
hereupon advanced against
Tigranes
Antiochus and defeated
him, to the great joy of the Seleucians,
whom he thenceforward governed. He also
subdued the whole of Assyria, with the exception
of a few unimportant places. On his leaving
Seleucia he appointed a viceroy over it, of the
name of Mazdat, a native of Antioch. lie afterwards
made an incursion into Palestine, whence,
on his return to Nisibis, he brought a number of
Jews, to whom he gave the village of Vardkes,
near the riverCasakh, at whichplace they settled.
On the death of Cornelius Sylla, the cele- -^f-,^'
brated Roman general, the treaty made by him
with Mithridates was revoked by the Roman
Senate, and war again declared between them
and him. Mithridates having informed Tigranes
of the rupture, the latter, by a forced march of
his army, entered Cappadocia unexpectedly,
and subdued the whole country, out of which he
drew 30,000 of the population, and sent them to
Armenia, where they had villages and towns
allotted to them for settling in. He then returned
to his own kingdom, after having dispatched
to Mithridates a large body of Basenian troops
reinforce his army. A considerable detachment
of Armenians was previously in the army of this
prince.
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