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

HrSTORY or ARMENIA. 155
the Hagarites seized the government. Khosrove,
having previously taken up the cause of the
deceased king of Persia, on the death of the
latter, marched into Pema, to dispossess the
usurper Artashir of the crown. Several years
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elapsed in this war, until at length Artashir,
being defeated, was obliged to quit Persia, and
flee into India. Khosrove then returned to
Atropatia and built a city in that country,
which he called Davrej, that is, built to
perpetuate the remembrance of the vengeance
he had taken on Artashir. After finishing
this work he went into the country of Uti.
Artashir the Sasanian seeing that whilst Khos-
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rove was in existence he could nt>t hope to
reign over Persia, determined to endeavour
to destroy his enemy by treachery. For this
purpose he offered a great sum of money to any
of his chiefs who would undertake to assassinate
the Armenian monarch.
A chief of the name of
Anak, of the tribe of the Surenian Pahlavies,
tempted by the rich reward, accepted the commission,
and immediately prepared to execute it.
Pretending to be hostile to the interests of
Artashir, he, with his family, came and settled
in Armenia. He first arrived in the province
of Artaz, and resided for a short time in the
very place
where the remains of St. 'I'haddeus
the apostle lie. Here it was that Ogoht-y the
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