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

98 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
Arsliavir king Persia, for his late good offices,
and he appointed Artashias his viceroy over
that country, which from that period till the
time of Ervand remained under the controul of
foreign princes. On the news of the appointment
of Augustus to the
supreme command of
the Romans reachini^- the ears of Arsham, he
dispatched to Rome an ambassador, praying the
emperor to set at liberty his nephews the sons
of Artavazd. But Augustus, hearing of the
recent conduct of Arsham toward the
refused to grant his request
Romans,
Arsham again sent
to Rome, and offered to become tributary to the
Roman power, and to pay a sum annually in
token of it, through the medium of Herod, by
the countries of Mesopotamia and Cesarea, if the
emperor would liberate the Armenian princes.
Augustus acceded to this, and a treaty was in
consequence signed between the two powers.
Arsham then
his court at Nisibis.
came into Mesopotamia and kept
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Some time after this, Augustus visited Assyria
^'^'^for
the second time, and was met there with
great respect by the chiefs of Upper Armenia,
who complained grievously of the Persian yoke.
They besought him to deliver their country from
the hardship under which they laboured, and
offered to accept as their king, Tigranes, surnamed
the Little, son of the deceased Artavazd,