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Rh rious prince, wasting his time in the most frivolous occupations, by which the country suffered a variety of evils, the territory being repeatedly invaded, and many provinces entirely conquered by the Assyrians.

The succeeding monarch, Scavordee, however, by his wisdom and valour, repaired all the injuries the kingdom had suffered under the weak and impotent sway of Pharnak. He succeeded in wresting from the Assyrians the conquests they had made in Armenia, and by the prudence of his administration rendered his people as happy as they had ever been under any of his predecessors. He died universally regretted, after a brilliant reign of 17 years, during which period Romulus laid the foundation of the city of Rome.

CHAPTER V.

Up to this time, those monarchs who ruled over Armenia, although they possessed all the power of absolute princes, had never undergone the ceremony of a public coronation. Indeed