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 REIGNS OF ARMENAC AND HARMA. Page 12

tain he gave the singular appellation of the Foot of Armenac. Here he fixed the seat of his government, and lived in peace until his death, which happened 46 years after he had assumed the government of his nation. According to the computation of the Septuagint, this prince held the supreme authority over the Haics for a period of 96 years. It is said that Armenac had 12 brothers and 24 sisters, who, by some curious caprice or predilection were called, the former by the names of the months of the year, the latter by those of the hours of the day.

Manavaz the brother of Armenac, who with Core, had continued to reside in Harc, was the founder of the distinguished race of the Manavazians. The Buznoonians, of whom we shall frequently have occasion to speak hereafter, were descended from his son Buz, who about this period settled near the north-west shore of the sea of Akhthamar. Core is the ancestor of the powerful tribe of the Corcoreans, many of whom, as will hereafter appear, contributed greatly by their actions to spread the renown of Armenian virtue and valour through Asia.

Aramais, the son of Armenac, after the death of his father, succeeded to the vacant sovereignty. He built a city of hewn stones on a small eminence in the plain of Aragaz, and near the