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 more magnificent scale, surrounding it with two immensely thick walls. He placed a statue of himself in the middle of the city, holding in one hand a piece of money, thereby indicating that in the rebuilding of the city his treasury was so much exhausted that only one piece of money remained in it. The remainder of his life Sanatruk passed in ease and pleasure, and at length died through a wound he received at a hunting party, from the hand of one of his attendants, whose arrow, discharged at one of the beasts they had enclosed, unfortunately struck the king. The reign of this monarch lasted 34 years, during four of which the king- dom was divided between him and Ananey the son of Abgar.

��CHAPTER IX.

��Events which happened among the Kings of Upper

Armenia.

On the reduction of Upper Armenia by 3970 ; Antony, he had made it over, as we stated above, to the king of the M edes, from whom it came into the possession of Arshavir, the king of Persia: he, as was before related, appointed Artashias his viceroy, whose government was so grievous that the people were obliged to apply

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