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 HISTORT or ARMENIA.

��worship of fire. In most parts, however, the greatest disgust was exhibited, and many publicly resisted their proceedings. Tumult and uneasiness pervaded the whole nation. When Vahan beheld the renewal of those persecutions which had so often afflicted his unhappy country, he became extremely uneasy, and meditated a revolt from the Persian sway. Having joined with other chiefs, and procured troops, he attacked the^ governor and his army, and put them all to the sword, including the magistrate who had ac- companied them. When Cavat heard of this, a.d.49C he was furiously enraged, and longed for an opportunity to wreak his vengeance on the Armenians. Being, however, engaged in an enterprize against Greece, he suppressed his feelings, and made peace with them, consenting to leave them in the quiet exercise of their religion. It was, however, stipulated that they should not assist the Greeks, but that Yard, at the head of their army, should accompany him in his expedition against that people. All this being settled, Cavat ^marched to that part of Armenia belonging to the Greeks, and took the city of Amid. He also captured several cities in Mesopotamia, and then returned to Persia.

The Greeks, however, shortly after, having recovered the places they had lost, made peace with the Persians. Samuel the pontiff died

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