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

HISTORY OF ARMENIA. 135
covered by one of the soldiers of the young
prince, the man dashed out his brains with a
blow of his sabre. Artaces being informed of
it, ordered his remains to be buried with all the
pomp of a prince, his mother being of the race
of the Arsacidae.
a reign of twenty years.
Thus perished Erwand after
CHAPTER XT.
The rdgn of Artaces the Second,
Artaces the son of Sanatruk, bv the death of
a. D.88.
Erwand, was left in undisputed possession of
the kingdom of Armenia.
he distributed presents to the
After his coronation
Medes and Persians,
by whose means he had obtained his
crown, and sent them back to their own country.
To Sumbat, surnamed the Great, who had been
the principal instrument of his success, he gave
the rank of generalissimo of the Armenians, and
the military superintendence of the whole of his
dominions.
Ar^^am also experienced the gratitude
of the king. Artaces gave him the rank
and power of a viceroy, permitting him to wear
a crown set with rubies;
to place rings of gold
in his ears ; to wear on one of his feet a red