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 HISTORY OF ARMENIA. Page 25

30th; eighteen of which he had ruled over Armenia.

Anushavan, on the defeat and death of his father, fell into the hands of the victor Ninyas, who retained him captive in his palace. At the time of this unfortunate event, Anushavan was but 14 years of age. When he attained maturity, some of the Assyrian nobles, with whom he had ingratiated himself by his amiable disposition and manners, interceded on his behalf with Ninyas, and procured his release and restoration to a part of his hereditary dominions, on condition that he should pay homage for them to the Assyrians. Anushavan, on agreeing to this condition, assumed the royal dignity in that portion of Armenia which had been restored to him. He proved a prince of eminently great qualities, and by the alternate use of arms and policy, eventually recovered the whole kingdom. He enjoyed a long reign; and died 63 years after the fall of Cardus.