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 Neneh Shirakensis, son of Vahan the elder, the Ca ms a ra ca n. Nerseb was a man of talent and Uikuch reading. He caused the ecclesiastical Ustory of Socrates to be translated into the Armenian language, by Philon the monk. His fiither Yahan caused Gregory, bishop of the Ar s h a m nians, to make annotations on the book of the ecclesiastical ceremonies for the days of Lent.

��CHAPTER XIX,

��The period between the governments of Abdullah and Tilth, and the pontificates of Elias and Johannes the philosopher.

T^E Caliph of Pamascus was greatly exas- ^^^'' perated when he learned that the Armenians had «« ^^ again become subjeQt to the Greeks, He ar- dently desired to iovfule that country agaip, but was deterred by the large army which the emperor had stationed there for its protection. Tke Qrc^k troops hQwever were gntdually with- drawn from Armepia» and at the ex;piration of three years from their first appearance they hsid ftU departed. Th^ Caliph then opened negotiations with the Armeniaps, and by kind promises induced them to submit to his power. Hereupon he sent them a governor of the nanie

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