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 PREFACE. XXXI

posed his work. It extends to the year of our Lord 1000. He is more explicit thanthe other historians in regard to chronology.

Akistakes Lastivertensis flourished in the eleventh century. His history commences with the reign of the Bagpratian king Gagik the First, and ends at the period of the capture of the city of Ani by Alphaslan, and the subsequent defeat of the emperor Diogenes, extending to the year 1071. His work is written in an elegant and pathetic style, abounding with lamentable reflections on the miseries that infested the country of Armenia.

Mathew Urhahensis the Abbot flourished in the twelfth century. He wrote a History of Armenia, from the reign of the Bagratian king Ashot the Third to that of Thorose and Leo the First the Reubeni an princes, extending to the year 1128.

Gregory the Priest flourished in the twelfth century. He wrote a continuation of the history of Mathew Urhahensis, narrating the events of his own time, or to the eighteenth year of the reign of Thorose the Second, A. D. 1161.

Samuel the Priest, of the city of Ani, flourished in the twelfth century. He wrote a short history from the creation of the world to the pontificate of Gregory, the brother of Nierses the Graceful, at whose desire it was composed. His work is also known by the ap- pellation of Chronicle or Chronology, extending to the year 1164, Haican era 613.

NiERSEs Clajensis, or Shinorhali (the Graceful) flourished in the twelfth century. He was the brother of

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