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

120 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
of the battle we have described, pushed forward
one half of his army to Artashat, to begin the
siege by annoying the inhabitants with incessant
discharges of arrows, and the next day
followed with the remainder.
The inhabitants
of the capital, terrified by the ravages the Roman
army had committed in other parts of the
kingdom, surrendered at discretion, thereby
expecting to experience milder treatment.
Corbulo,
aware of his inability to keep the city,
set
it on fire, and totally destroyed it. He however
spared the lives of the citizens.
A. D.59. Corbulo prosecuted his conquests ; and after
some resistance in a few places, particularly at
the city
of Aparan, otherwise Tigranakert, the
whole country submitted. In the meanwhile,
Tirithus had gathered a few troops from the
Medesand other nations, and attempted to make
head against the Romans. Corbulo, however,
in possession of all the important places in the
kingdom, and at the bead of an army flushed
with victory, appearing on the frontiers, pre*
vented even the entrance of Tirithus into the
country. The latter, broken in spirit, retreated
into Persia to his brother Darius. The whole of
Armenia now exhibiting no further scenes of
contest, Corbulo returned to Assyria, after having
apppointed to the government Tigranes the
Little, nephew of the first Tigranes the Little.