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with this arraDgem^t, wrote to Kho8fOTe» to bury all ancient feuds in oblivion, to receive them as hb subjects, to restore them their ancient possessions, or to giro them others iq» room of them. Khosrove hairing consented, they renounced further obedience to the.emperor, and went over to Eastern Armenia, where they were reinstated in possession of their lands, and lived in peace and tranquillity. Khosrove, a short time afterwards, wrote to the emperor Arcadius, and solicited the government of Western Armenia, promising to pay tribute^ in proportion to what he paid the Persians for the kingdom he then held. Arcadius complied^ and Khosrove thenceforward ruled over the whole of Armenia, acknowledging allegiance both to the Persians and Greeks.

��CHAPTER XXIV.

��The reign of Viramshapuh ; the exik of Khosrove^ during the days of St. Mesrop, ¥)hen the Arme^ nian characters were invented by the latter.

A. a 390. On the death of Aspurakes the pontiff, Isaac the Parthian, son of Nierses the Great, with the consent of Khosrove and the whole Armenian nation, succeeded him. According to the old records, he was a mirror of every eminent and

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