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event of a failure of his attempt to establish his independence, was taken prisoner by the vic^ torious troops* shortly after the discomfiture of his army. The weak monarch, as abject in ad* versity as he was inflated in prosperity, implored Terentius in the most humble language^ to spare his life. Terentius loaded him with chains and carried him to the emperor. When Theo- dosius saw Pap, he reproached him for hia ingratitude towards himself, his cruelty to that blessed servant of God, Nierses, and his unkind- ness to Terentius. He then ordered him to be put to death, which was done by the blow of a sabre. Thus perished king Pap, after a short reign of three years, or, according to other accounts, of seven years.

��CHAPTER XXIIL

The period between the reigns of Varazdat ofid Khosrove the Third; mid the pontificate of Zaven and Aspurakes.

A.D.384. Varazdat the Arsacian, who, at the time of the flight of the Armenian chiefs from the tyranny of Shapuh, took refuge in Greece; and who, as we have related, was appointed to a situation in the emperor's household, succeeded Pap on the throne of Armenia, by order of Theodosius. He

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