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

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HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
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more magnificent scale, surrounding- it with two
immensely thick walls.
He placed a statue of
himself in the middle of the city, holding in one
hand a piece of money, thereby indicating that
in the rebuilding of the city his
much exhausted that only one piece
treasury was so
of money
remained m it. The remainder of his life
Sanatruk passed in ease and pleasure, and at
len^rth died through a wound he received at a
hunting party, from the hand of one of his
attendants, whose arrow, discharged at one of
the beasts they had enclosed, unfortunately
struck the king. The reign of this monarch
lasted 34 years, during four of which the kingdom
was divided between him and Ananey the
son of Abgar.
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CHAPTER IX.
Events which happened among the Kings of Upper
Armenia.
On the reduction of Upper Armenia by .-^gro;
Antony, he had made it over, as we stated above,
to the king of the Medes, from whom it came
into the possession of Arshavir, the king of
Persia: he, as was before related, appointed
Artashias his viceroy, whose government was so
grievous that the people were obliged to apply
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