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 ��of Nerseh and Hirahat the Camsaracans, whom he immediately seized and sent to his camp ; directing them to be guarded with a]l suitable respect, and forbidding any violence to be at* tempted on their purity ; as he conceived that their husbands, for their sakes, would at least make some sacrifices, and return to obedience to the Persian power. Just after this event Haza* ravukht received an order from king Phiroz to march with his army into Georgia. He therefore was obliged to leave Armenia, after appointing one Shapuh, of the family of Mihran, prefect of that country ; and leaving him in the district of Basen with 3,000 Persians, and Gu- dihon, chief of the Seunies, with his followers, to secure his government, and preserve it from any future attacks of Vahan and his party.

��CHAPTER X.

��Further acts of the Vahanians against Shapuh the

Prefect.

Shapuh the Mihranian, immediately after a,d.4» the departure of Hazaravukht, commenced his prefecture by endeavouring to conciliate the two Camsaracans, Nerseh and Hirahat. For this purpose he placed their wives, who as it will be recollected had been made prisoners, in a

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