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 king, giving credit to the tale, banished bis inno* cent nephew from Ararat. Gnelus took refuge in the province of Arberaney, whence he removed to AUovit, and fiQally took up his residence in the royal city of Zarishat. Tiran» seeing this a.d.3M. unjust persecution of his unoffending grandson, sent a message to Arsaces, severely reprehend- ing him for it. Upon which the unnatural king was so incensed, that he sent private direc- tions to the chamberlains of his father, to strangle him. Having executed the barbarous order, they buried him in the village where he had lived.

Some short time after this tragical event, Arsaces was bunting in the country surround- ing Mount Ararat, which is not far from S^alcote, and was so much elated by the sport, and the number of animals with which the mountain abounds, that he declared none of bis predecessors had enjoyed the diversion in such perfection as himself. Tirithus, and his minion Vardan, who were in the number of his attendants, and who still sought to injure Gne- lus, informed the king that his nephew had a greater number and variety of beasts on a mountain near Shahapivan, in the province of Zalcote, and possessed a more extraordinary way of hunting them, than any king of Armenia eter had. This excited the jealousy of Arsaces,

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