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

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HISTORY OF ARMENTA*
Persian in the neighbourhood, and totally demo*
lished the edifice, which, as we have before observed,
had been built there by Hazkert.
They
then dispatched ambassadors to the kings of the
Aluans and the Huns, with whom they established
a covenant of peace, confirmed by an oath.
But
while one portion of the Armenians was engaged
in such gallant exploits, Vasak the Seunian having
separated himself from the christian church,
together with some others, again introduced
into Armenia the worship of fire. They again
commenced the same scene of blood and torture
which had before disgraced the country: many
churches were demolished, the priests of which
were tortured,
and more than one village wa?s
totally destroyed. The sons of the chiefs were
seized and sent to Persia, and a new agreement
was formed with Hazkert, Mihrnerseh, and
the chief Magi,
to bring the whole of the inhabitants
to the worship of fire.
Vasak theSeuniaft,
with his unworthy coadjutors, also wrote to the
Greeks, and other nations, accusing Vardan of
having rebelled from the king of Persia and
from them.
The division
of Armenia under the Greeks
was at that time ruled by one Vasak a Mamiconian.
To him also Vasak wrote privately,
calumniating the Vardanians, upon which he,
no less wicked than his adviser, wrote to the
emperor, and by his representations rendered