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 334 HISTOHYOF ARHEITTA.

He implored him to give his unfortanatQ countrymen a little rest, and called to his re*» collection the guarantee of no future molestation, which one of his predecessors, Valarsh, had givea the Armenians in the tin^ of Vaban the Ma^ miconian; forbidding, at the same time, hy a

A.D.552. decree, the revocation of that act by any of m7! 1^18 successors on the throne of Persia. Khosrove, acknowledging the justice of the pontiflTs remonstrance, recalled Densbapuh, in the fourth year of his prefecture, and sent in his room Yishnas Vahram, who, immediately on assuming his authority, prohibited the Magi from further molesting the people. A son of the chief Magi, however, named Makhoj, having become aeon* vert to Christianity, on which occasion he took the name of Hiztibught, the new prefect was prevailed upon by the ministers of his religion to martyr him. This was the only act of severity that he committed during his prefecture, which lasted six years, during the whole of which

^ Hakan ^^™^ Armenia tasted the delights of peace. He •^^' was superseded by Varazdat, a Persian, who remained in the prefecture six years, and was replaced by SurenC hihr Vishnaspuhen, arelation of Khosrove the Persian monarch. This indi- vidual, immediately after assuming the govern- ment, renewed the old persecution ; compelling many to worship the sun and fire, and filling the

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