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

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HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
A. D. 53.
an ambitious eye on the crown of his uncle, hereturned
to his father, and communicated to him
a project for dispossessing Mithridates of his
kingdom.
Pharsman approving of his designs,
Hiramizd set out with an army for the invasion
of Armenia. Mithridates, terrified at the approach
of his nephew, fled, but was pursued and
taken with the whole of his family.
Hiramizd,
disregarding every feeling of kindred, put Mithridates
and his queen to death, by suffocating
them between thick cloths. He also murdered
their sons, after making them witness the
tragical end of their parents.
In the meantime
Darius, king of Persia, hearing the occurrences
that had recently taken place in Upper Armenia,
thought this a convenient opportunity for asserting
his claim to the controul of that kingdom.
He assembled a large army and entered Armenia,
from which he soon compelled Hiramizd to
flee. He then appointed his own brother
Tirithus king, in the city of Artashat, who waswillingly
received by the Armenians, in consequence
of his being a descendant of the
Arsacidae.
After the king of Persia had retired
from Armenia, Hiramizd returned, and endeavoured
to expel Tirithus, but the latter had so
much gained the affections of the people, that
they all took up arms in his defence, and
attacking the troops of Hiramizd, totally routed