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of the battle we have described, pushed forward one half of his army to Artashat, to begin the siege by annoying the inhabitants with inces- sant 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. Cot^ bulo, aware of bis 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 Medes and 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 head 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 hav* ing apppointed to the government Tigranes the Little, nephew of the first Tigranes the little.

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