Table of Contents  |  Headwords: Alphabetical - Frequency  |  Wordforms: Alphabetical - Frequency  |  About Headwords Alphabetical [ <<  >> ] Zubayr   1 Zupet   1 Zurarek   1 Zvartnots   1 a   8392 abandon   213 abase   2 abash   1 abate   2 Wordform a 7169 occurrence(s) Wordforms Alphabetical [ <<  >> ] - - - - a   7169 aaron   4 aba   1 abandon   85 abandoned   100 01Kor1    1:3 | an excellent man named Hovsep, a disciple of that person, as 01Kor1    2:4 | life, and the radiance of a marvelous life 01Kor1    2:6 | a third, because of his perfect 01Kor1    2:6 | righteousness has been preserved in a ship for a period of 01Kor1    2:6 | preserved in a ship for a period of one year on 01Kor1    2:6 | the god-sent scourge of a boundless, mountain-high sea, along 01Kor1    2:7 | a fourth, has been justified through 01Kor1    2:10 | revealed the names of but a few of them, omitting others 01Kor1    2:11 | He then records in a general manner the tribulations of 01Kor1    2:13 | A few are praised, moreover, for 01Kor1    2:20 | A perfect and upright man; one 01Kor1    2:24 | highly of the pouring of a little ointment and states that 01Kor1    2:26 | Christ, he was designated as a chosen vessel who could bear 01Kor1    2:29 | A few of them can be 01Kor1    2:29 | in the Holy Gospel, and a few others are found in 01Kor1    2:35 | be zealously affected always in a good thing.” He moreover, exhorts 01Kor1    3:1 | village of Hatsekats, son of a blessed man named Vardan 01Kor1    4:4 | would end in standing vigil, a night’s pleasant rest and much 01Kor1    4:4 | he did all this not a few times 01Kor1    4:5 | And having found a few persons, he caused them 01Kor1    4:6 | And thus, bearing with a courageous will all the temptations 01Kor1    5:2 | by the ruler of Goghtan, a pious man whose name was 01Kor1    5:2 | man whose name was Shabit, a gracious and hospitable man, who 01Kor1    5:2 | who devoutly served him in a manner worthy of an apostle 01Kor1    5:6 | to how he might find a solution to the problem 01Kor1    6:3 | Then as a boon from God the gracious 01Kor1    6:5 | The King told them of a man named Daniel, a Syrian 01Kor1    6:5 | of a man named Daniel, a Syrian bishop of noble lineage 01Kor1    6:6 | was needful. He then dispatched a man named Vahrij along with 01Kor1    6:6 | Vahrij along with messages to a priest called Habel, who was 01Kor1    6:12 | time were engaged in finding a solution 01Kor1    7:1 | Therefore, taking with him a group of young men, by 01Kor1    7:1 | blessed Mashtots took leave with a kiss of holiness, in the 01Kor1    8:4 | there in the same city, a Greek scribe, named Ropanos, by 01Kor1    9:7 | censure for our analogy between a very modest man and Moses 01Kor1    9:10 | assemblage of noble courtiers and a throng, came outside the city 01Kor1    11:2 | as to be inscribed in a book to be preserved for 01Kor1    11:3 | Take thee a great roll,” said He, “and 01Kor1    11:3 | and write in it with a scribe’s pen.” And elsewhere: “Now 01Kor1    11:3 | Now go, write it on a tablet, and inscribe it in 01Kor1    11:3 | tablet, and inscribe it in a book.” But David indicates even 01Kor1    11:7 | existed there thenceforth, and what a pleasant scene for the eyes 01Kor1    11:7 | scene for the eyes! For a land which had not known 01Kor1    12:3 | gushed forth for the Armenians a grace of God’s commandments. Here 01Kor1    12:3 | Prophet: “And there shall spring a fountain in the House of 01Kor1    13:5 | vardapet in the manner of a true son 01Kor1    14:3 | for them and instructed as a teacher, educated and advised them 01Kor1    14:3 | so well as to ordain a bishop overseer from among those 01Kor1    14:3 | barbarians, whose name was Ananias, a saintly, distinguished man, and a 01Kor1    14:3 | a saintly, distinguished man, and a father for the seminarians 01Kor1    14:4 | ordained that brave Vasak Siuni, a wise and ingenious, far-sighted 01Kor1    14:5 | evangelization. He showed obedience, as a son to his father, and 01Kor1    15:2 | it in order, and taking a few of his pupils, arrived 01Kor1    15:4 | And he found a Georgian translator by the name 01Kor1    15:4 | by the name of Jagha, a literate and devout man. The 01Kor1    15:7 | bishop, first among whom was a saintly and devout man by 01Kor1    16:4 | very outset of his journey a very sincere and amicable reception 01Kor1    16:6 | their supervisor one called Leontius, a loyal and pious man 01Kor1    16:7 | whose name was Gint, and a few of his pupils there 01Kor1    16:7 | his pupils there, and boarding a public transport and receiving much 01Kor1    16:9 | in the capital city for a definite period with the same 01Kor1    16:10 | obtained unassailable authorization, along with a sacred edict bearing the emperor’s 01Kor1    16:18 | it. And having acquired many a noble book by the church 01Kor1    16:23 | those regions, and remained there a few days to distribute spiritual 01Kor1    17:3 | the letters and ordered that a large number of youths be 01Kor1    17:8 | And he named a few of his pupils as 01Kor1    19:4 | After a while a few brethren came 01Kor1    19:4 | After a while a few brethren came to the 01Kor1    22:2 | monasteries he took with him a few pupils to retire into 01Kor1    22:15 | not as though He made a present of the knowledge 01Kor1    22:20 | was thus that they lived a long time, richly filled by 01Kor1    23:1 | books and inane traditions of a man named Theodore of Mopsuestia 01Kor1    24:5 | a saintly and devout man, who 01Kor1    24:6 | mentioned before, as well as a large group of saintly men 01Kor1    26:3 | And after an illness of a few days, on the [13th] day 01Kor1    26:4 | at the beginning; second, Tadik, a temperate man, most heedful to 01Kor1    26:6 | to heaven, there was seen a luminous vision resembling a cross 01Kor1    26:6 | seen a luminous vision resembling a cross over the dwelling where 01Kor1    26:7 | saints, love and unity as a legacy, blessed them that were 01Kor1    26:10 | build, with Christ-loving zeal, a marvelous church with finely hewn 01Kor1    26:12 | of his pupils named Tadik, a temperate and pious man, along 01Kor1    27:1 | second, another pupil named Hovhan, a truly saintly, truth-loving man 01Kor1    27:2 | in chains at Ctesiphon in a singlehanded combat against redoubled tyranny 01Kor1    27:4 | of Christ our God, becoming a true spiritual son of the 01Kor1    27:4 | fathers, was worthy of being a close participant in their life 01Kor1    28:3 | apostolic Acts. We set aside a multitude of the acts of 02Agat1    1:2 | son of Sasan, who was a certain [naxarar] lord from the district 02Agat1    1:10 | With a great grudge he vowed to 02Agat1    1:12 | There quickly arrived as support a vast multitude of vigorous and 02Agat1    1:23 | He also took a fifth of the grandest of 02Agat1    2:7 | derive from an undistinguished or a distinguished origin.” He promised as 02Agat1    2:7 | distinguished origin.” He promised as a reward to confer various kinds 02Agat1    2:8 | among the advisors there was a senior nahapet of the kingdom 02Agat1    2:10 | will glorify you by putting a crown on your head and 02Agat1    2:18 | an honor or, “diadem,” [pativ] of a royal kind and seated him 02Agat1    2:23 | He fell to the ground, a corpse 02Agat1    2:24 | became known, the crowd raised a lament. However, the killers by 02Agat1    2:29 | In a narrow part of the road 02Agat1    3:1 | On that day he celebrated a great feast and carried out 02Agat1    3:3 | of the Armenians. This was a small child named Trdat, who 02Agat1    3:7 | was nourished and educated by a certain count, who was named 02Agat1    3:13 | Trdat realized that Gregory was a member of the Christian faith 02Agat1    4:2 | ruler of the Goths sent a message with the following import 02Agat1    4:3 | come forth to you as a single combatant champion from my 02Agat1    4:3 | troops. We will go to a place of battle 02Agat1    4:5 | fight brigade against brigade in a normal fashion 02Agat1    4:10 | arriving, they happened to enter a narrow spot leading to the 02Agat1    4:11 | they noticed that there was a haystack in an ox-stall 02Agat1    4:16 | When Licinius observed such a demonstration of strength, he was 02Agat1    4:18 | in your court, there is a man who can deal with 02Agat1    4:20 | Then he gave a command and they brought Tiridates 02Agat1    4:24 | Trdat took a brigade of many troops and 02Agat1    4:26 | very grand gifts. He placed a crown on his head exalting 02Agat1    5:3 | When they had entered a tent there and were eating 02Agat1    5:5 | not worship - especially since you, a stranger and a foreigner, came 02Agat1    5:5 | since you, a stranger and a foreigner, came and attached yourself 02Agat1    5:38 | he died willingly and entered a tomb, which guards the bones 02Agat1    5:47 | will fit your cheeks into a bridle and bit, you who 02Agat1    5:50 | like animals. For ’they have a mouth and do not speak 02Agat1    6:5 | torments and I shall place a bridle on your cheeks, that 02Agat1    6:6 | This,” he said, “was a great courtesy on my part 02Agat1    6:7 | hands bound behind him, and a muzzle put in his mouth 02Agat1    6:7 | his mouth; and he had a block of salt hung on 02Agat1    6:7 | hung on his back and a noose placed round his chest 02Agat1    6:12 | you perceive that truly like a donkey or mule’ you took 02Agat1    6:12 | took on and carried such a great load and were stationary 02Agat1    7:9 | clothed in shameless glory for a garment in your garden in 02Agat1    7:10 | holy marriage and birth of a son to Enoch you raised 02Agat1    7:21 | trials and tribulations; they led a bitter life in the world 02Agat1    7:32 | dead images, he himself became a dead image on the cross 02Agat1    7:33 | made the cross appear as a hook, and he made his 02Agat1    7:35 | Lord: ’I shall become like a deaf man who does not 02Agat1    7:35 | does not hear, and like a mute, for he does not 02Agat1    7:37 | And you will become like a man in whose mouth there 02Agat1    7:39 | elevated cross as if climbing a high summit; and he showed 02Agat1    7:40 | the world saw him on a high place and rejoiced, worshiped 02Agat1    7:41 | fatted calf, I have prepared a meal’ 02Agat1    7:70 | is shrouded and buried, as a prediction of the resurrection of 02Agat1    7:93 | we may offer ourselves as a sacrifice to your divinity; that 02Agat1    7:95 | offered himself to you as a sacrifice for the sins of 02Agat1    7:95 | world, that he might be a reconciler and intercessor between you 02Agat1    7:101 | all to be slaughtered like a lamb [cf. Acts 8.32], and you made them 02Agat1    8:3 | Then he gave a command and they brought him 02Agat1    8:4 | have labored with me from a young age; or to die 02Agat1    8:7 | you to be tormented for a long time to prevent you 02Agat1    8:21 | head to be placed in a carpenter’s vice, and a reed 02Agat1    8:21 | in a carpenter’s vice, and a reed tube to be put 02Agat1    8:22 | he commanded and they brought a large sack of sheepskin and 02Agat1    8:22 | filled it with cinders from a furnace. They made it not 02Agat1    9:1 | upside down. And he had a funnel placed in his bottom 02Agat1    9:1 | and had water poured from a wine-skin into his belly 02Agat1    9:2 | Then he gave a command and they brought him 02Agat1    9:11 | He gave a command and they brought iron 02Agat1    10:3 | fourth day the king gave a command, and they brought him 02Agat1    10:9 | their bodies may flourish for a while, yet with that same 02Agat1    11:1 | to speak with him in a gentler fashion and to reply 02Agat1    11:3 | he is the son of a guilty man 02Agat1    11:5 | taken and shut up in a dungeon in the province of 02Agat1    11:11 | great strength, solid bones, and a large frame. He was brave 02Agat1    11:12 | He received a great renown for bravery, and 02Agat1    11:14 | Now there was a widow who lived in that 02Agat1    11:14 | pit. The woman had received a command in a dream that 02Agat1    11:14 | had received a command in a dream that every day she 02Agat1    11:14 | throw into that deep pit a loaf of bread which she 02Agat1    11:14 | was to prepare. In such a way was Gregory nourished by 02Agat1    12:7 | their worship of the gods. A stern command was issued by 02Agat1    12:10 | we also want to give a command that will concern itself 02Agat1    12:12 | the following items go as a reward to whomever uncovers them 02Agat1    13:1 | the emperor Diocletian was seeking a wife. Throughout all parts of 02Agat1    13:2 | came to Rome and found a convent of virgins who, having 02Agat1    13:3 | the daughters of someone from a pious and royal line 02Agat1    13:5 | portrait, he was filled with a crazed passion, since his extraordinary 02Agat1    13:5 | propelled him to lust. As a result, he specified a time 02Agat1    13:5 | As a result, he specified a time for the joyous wedding 02Agat1    13:7 | that the emperor had become a vessel of evil [cf. Jer. 51.34], and that 02Agat1    13:7 | had used the snake as a vehicle for causing the forgetting 02Agat1    13:7 | used the lawless emperor as a mask through which he could 02Agat1    13:18 | of our holiness to be a brothel for those obscene dogs 02Agat1    13:22 | companions decided to flee to a distant land in order to 02Agat1    13:23 | and gaining a place on the right-hand 02Agat1    14:6 | and crucified man, and adore a cross, and worship the bones 02Agat1    14:13 | I chanced to see a young and beautiful girl among 02Agat1    15:4 | After a few days, they were quickly 02Agat1    15:5 | nor for the light of a torch to be hidden under 02Agat1    15:5 | torch to be hidden under a bushel or under the shadow 02Agat1    15:5 | or under the shadow of a chair; but on candlesticks ornamented 02Agat1    15:7 | buys and treasures him like a precious pearl [cf. Matt. 13.46]; then he receives 02Agat1    15:12 | they had been discovered, by a legion of infantry. After two 02Agat1    15:13 | order to glimpse her beauty, a great and disorderly crowd gathered 02Agat1    15:17 | very next day, before dawn, a command was issued by the 02Agat1    15:18 | Immediately they sent a gold sedan chair with attendants 02Agat1    15:23 | cuirass [cf. I Thess. 5.8]. She cried out with a loud voice and stretched out 02Agat1    15:23 | arms in the form of a cross. And in a loud 02Agat1    15:23 | of a cross. And in a loud voice she began to 02Agat1    16:3 | Raising a cry, they loudly wept and 02Agat1    16:7 | Then there occurred a fearfully loud thundering from heaven 02Agat1    16:7 | terrified the whole throng, and a voice which said to them 02Agat1    16:9 | And so it thundered for a long while, until people were 02Agat1    16:22 | handmaid Susanna, delivering her from a double death, and destroyed her 02Agat1    16:22 | opprobrious death, and graciously set a glorious crown of righteousness on 02Agat1    17:5 | the Holy Spirit, battled like a beast and fought like a 02Agat1    17:5 | a beast and fought like a man. They fought starting with 02Agat1    17:5 | was defeated and worsted by a single girl, by the will 02Agat1    17:6 | weakened, went out and, putting a collar around her neck, had 02Agat1    17:25 | glorious altar of God as a handmaid of Christ. He who 02Agat1    17:25 | mercy and benevolence appeared in a revelation to us who piously 02Agat1    17:29 | still she did not deviate a single word in what she 02Agat1    17:36 | her companions. Then she went a long distance from the city 02Agat1    17:36 | city, to the northeast, to a sandy elevated area close to 02Agat1    17:39 | Spirit will lead us in a straight land’ [Ps. 142.10], who will bring 02Agat1    18:4 | the torches to her for a long time, burning and roasting 02Agat1    19:1 | had seemed as strong as a giant, showing there many deeds 02Agat1    19:1 | So, he, who was such a powerful soldier and strong of 02Agat1    19:1 | of God was defeated by a single girl 02Agat1    19:15 | that he would give Gayane a wicked death. He had the 02Agat1    19:15 | had been condemned to death, a swampy place near the moat 02Agat1    19:19 | we have been considered as a lamb for the slaughter. Arise 02Agat1    19:22 | cut off their heads with a sword 02Agat1    19:25 | September saint Rhipsime died with a class of thirty-three fellow 02Agat1    20:3 | exterior was transformed to resemble a wild pig and, like one 02Agat1    20:8 | Then it came about that a vision from God was visited 02Agat1    20:9 | describing the vision and saying: “ A vision appeared to me this 02Agat1    20:9 | appeared to me this evening. A man in the form of 02Agat1    20:14 | Then they quickly sent there a certain senior [naxarar] lord whose name 02Agat1    20:21 | The naxarar Otay shouted in a loud voice, calling out: “Gregorios 02Agat1    20:26 | soon as they saw from a distance that Gregory was coming 02Agat1    20:30 | the ground, saying: “I am a man like you, and have 02Agat1    20:30 | man like you, and have a body like yours. But you 02Agat1    20:39 | might be converted and find a way to repentance 02Agat1    20:40 | the grandee nobility together with a great mob of people, came 02Agat1    21:11 | nor did many tribulations make a single one of them lose 02Agat1    21:18 | became weakened in front of a single girl. For the power 02Agat1    21:22 | earlier about your error that a fog of thick and murky 02Agat1    21:29 | They made their death a faithful and firm seal of 02Agat1    21:35 | Or how could a man live for a single 02Agat1    21:35 | could a man live for a single day in that terribly 02Agat1    22:5 | And all the populace raised a cry and the king wept 02Agat1    22:5 | separated from him even for a moment because of the terrible 02Agat1    22:6 | ever went away from him a little, then the demons pounced 02Agat1    22:7 | did to me. How could a man endure so many tortures 02Agat1    22:7 | hour the mere sight of a snake from afar, let alone 02Agat1    22:7 | dwell in the midst of a mass of snakes for fifteen 02Agat1    22:10 | Was it really possible for a single young girl to resist 02Agat1    22:10 | single young girl to resist a giant, as you saw with 02Agat1    22:12 | as for me, was I a preacher to you not by 02Agat1    22:14 | pit every day I saw a vision with eyes wide open 02Agat3    1:7 | your debts, and grant you a share of the crown of 02Agat3    1:12 | mercy will be for you a strong fortress and mighty tower 02Agat3    2:3 | Like a wise doctor he tried to 02Agat3    2:3 | as patients, and he like a skilled physician might heal their 02Agat3    2:6 | They were gathered together in a numberless assemblage of men, jostling 02Agat3    2:6 | other and sitting as at a banquet, to give their attention 02Agat3    3:1 | they had been struck in a just judgment by the rod 02Agat3    3:2 | changed into the form of a wallowing pig. For his whole 02Agat3    3:5 | swinish form, cried out in a loud voice, he called out 02Agat3    3:5 | and in the likeness of a four-footed beast ran from 02Agat3    3:6 | But blessed Gregory prayed for a brief while, begging from the 02Agat3    3:12 | But he related to them a vision as follows 02Agat3    4:2 | and there appeared to me a divine, wonderful, and ineffable vision 02Agat3    4:5 | Suddenly there was a great sound, the thunder of 02Agat3    4:5 | sound, the thunder of lightning, a fearful noise like the sound 02Agat3    4:6 | of heaven was opened, and a man descended in the form 02Agat3    4:11 | was an awesome vision of a man, tall and fearful, who 02Agat3    4:11 | And in his hand was a great hammer of gold, and 02Agat3    4:12 | swiftly in the likeness of a fleet-winged eagle. And he 02Agat3    4:12 | was struck as level as a plain 02Agat3    4:13 | city, near the royal palace, a circular base of gold, as 02Agat3    4:13 | of gold, as great as a hill, and on it an 02Agat3    4:13 | and on top of that a capital of cloud, and on 02Agat3    4:13 | on top of that again a cross of light 02Agat3    4:16 | And above this I saw a canopy of cloud, wonderfully and 02Agat3    4:16 | constructed in the form of a dome 02Agat3    4:18 | of this edifice I saw a wonderful and divine throne of 02Agat3    4:20 | There was made a vast bluish sea, and the 02Agat3    4:21 | And I saw a numberless multitude of fiery altars 02Agat3    4:21 | multitude of fiery altars, and a column on each altar, and 02Agat3    4:21 | column on each altar, and a cross on each column. And 02Agat3    4:27 | And there arose a torrent of fire which bore 02Agat3    4:35 | were martyred here have made a road for these Northern regions 02Agat3    4:37 | sweet odor [cf. II Cor. 2.15], like that of a rose-colored flower, of the 02Agat3    4:44 | And that place will be a temple of God and a 02Agat3    4:44 | a temple of God and a house of prayer [cf. Matt. 21.13] for the 02Agat3    4:44 | of all the faithful, and a throne of the high priesthood 02Agat3    4:70 | preaching will be increased for a long time, and new, renewed 02Agat3    4:75 | be strong, be attentive. For a task has been put upon 02Agat3    6:1 | And he ordered that a repository should be made for 02Agat3    6:9 | baptism? Still, your willingness is a good sign for your salvation 02Agat3    6:10 | treasury until you are granted a shepherd and teacher by God’s 02Agat3    7:1 | entirely in the form of a pig, except that he could 02Agat3    7:1 | that he could speak like a human. The claws of his 02Agat3    7:1 | feet were like those of a pig; his face was like 02Agat3    7:1 | pig; his face was like a snout; he had big tusks 02Agat3    7:1 | he had big tusks like a huge boar, and his body 02Agat3    7:1 | over with thick bristles like a hog 02Agat3    7:2 | his face and head, wearing a hairshirt he had donned - and 02Agat3    7:2 | had donned - and presenting quite a sight to behold 02Agat3    7:5 | so that he might have a small share in the blessed 02Agat3    8:4 | the city, King Trdat prepared a place there for the blessed 02Agat3    8:6 | leave from saint Gregory for a seven-day journey so that 02Agat3    8:7 | which no individual or even a multitude of men could move 02Agat3    8:7 | the chapels, since he had a giant’s strength, like Hayk 02Agat3    8:8 | boulders he set up as a threshold, as though in exchange 02Agat3    8:9 | of his own hands, as a crown of victory 02Agat3    8:20 | honorably enclosed the place with a high wall and with doors 02Agat3    9:3 | people with the appearance of a pig, suddenly trembled and the 02Agat3    9:4 | became soft, like that of a newly-born infant. He was 02Agat3    10:1 | came to an agreement about a general peace. They agreed to 02Agat3    10:2 | the blessed Paul designated as a goal: “That united we may 02Agat3    10:5 | the Diwan secretary of Ormazd - a temple of learned instruction. They 02Agat3    10:6 | had taken the forms of a multitude of cavalry and a 02Agat3    10:6 | a multitude of cavalry and a brigade of infantry armed with 02Agat3    10:6 | with spears and flags. With a great cry they fled into 02Agat3    10:8 | Jesus, the son of Mary a daughter of man, has forced 02Agat3    10:13 | the suffering, and the needy, a portion of the accumulated treasures 02Agat3    10:18 | erected the same sign as a guard and a refuge for 02Agat3    10:18 | sign as a guard and a refuge for all to worship 02Agat3    11:2 | the village of Tordan, was a famous temple to the so 02Agat3    11:2 | gold and silver and gave a portion to the poor 02Agat3    11:3 | Church. They also erected there a copy of the all-saving 02Agat3    12:5 | disclosed these things, speaking in a loud voice in front of 02Agat3    12:6 | of life, which was of a foul, demonic, satanic, and monstrous 02Agat3    13:6 | baptism and renew us, as a teacher of the law by 02Agat3    13:8 | it happened after this, that a marvelous vision from God appeared 02Agat3    13:9 | God appeared to Gregory in a vision, so that he would 02Agat3    14:10 | one’s wisdom - with how great a love they loved their Lord 02Agat3    14:10 | that our king even became a pig and pastured with the 02Agat3    14:12 | because he was even more a martyr and an even greater 02Agat3    14:12 | given us by God as a leader 02Agat3    14:13 | He has even given us a clear command to appoint this 02Agat3    15:7 | They all held a feast of celebration and honored 02Agat3    15:12 | With great honor and a letter the Caesarean clerics sent 02Agat3    15:13 | They remained there for not a few days 02Agat3    15:14 | There Gregory found a multitude of clerical brothers whom 02Agat3    15:15 | and, being found to be a faithful martyr, has inherited the 02Agat3    16:1 | remained in the Taron country a temple to Vahagn, a temple 02Agat3    16:1 | country a temple to Vahagn, a temple with a large treasury 02Agat3    16:1 | to Vahagn, a temple with a large treasury, full of gold 02Agat3    16:1 | for Vahagn the Dragon-Reaper, a place of sacrifice for the 02Agat3    16:6 | When they had arrived at a distance of about two stadia 02Agat3    16:8 | of troops all together built a chapel and transferred the saints’ 02Agat3    16:8 | the saints’ relics there as a resting place 02Agat3    17:4 | At his words, a strong wind blew from the 02Agat3    17:10 | he laid the foundations of a church and erected an altar 02Agat3    17:10 | there that he first made a start to building churches 02Agat3    17:11 | of the Holy Trinity and a baptismal font, first baptizing the 02Agat3    17:13 | should assemble there joyfully making a feast-day to commemorate the 02Agat3    18:2 | remained there awaiting him for a month 02Agat3    19:3 | the royal camp to spend a month in fasting and prayer 02Agat3    19:5 | all-gracious God to produce a new and wonderful birth in 02Agat3    19:6 | laid the foundations and built a church, and it was there 02Agat3    19:6 | Lord’s house, that he gave a home to the relics he 02Agat3    20:2 | the Euphrates River for baptism, a marvelous sign appeared from God 02Agat3    20:3 | Then a bright light appeared in the 02Agat3    20:3 | appeared in the form of a luminous column and came and 02Agat3    21:3 | he had brought, declaring as a major holiday the days of 02Agat3    21:4 | and on the same day a feast for the great and 02Agat3    22:1 | district and from every region, a multitude of children should be 02Agat3    22:6 | Vagharshapat, also, Gregory had built a house of God in the 02Agat3    22:6 | and where he had built a church to Christ 02Agat3    23:7 | to time, ascended mountains for a retreat, making himself an example 02Agat3    23:10 | growth in the spirit and a preparation of their hearts with 02Agat3    23:12 | continuous in illuminating teaching with a view to progressive election to 02Agat3    24:3 | set their own virtue as a canon to their pupils, taking 02Agat3    25:1 | Like Moses, who suddenly became a teacher of the law to 02Agat3    25:2 | province and chose for himself a spot for repose in desert 02Agat3    25:7 | him down. He had made a rule for himself that all 02Agat3    25:8 | previously - while he was still a young man in the military 02Agat3    25:9 | was named Vrtanes, who led a secular life. However, subsequently he 02Agat3    25:10 | the mountains, hunger and thirst, a vegetarian life, being shut up 02Agat3    25:10 | shut up without light, wearing a hairshirt, and sleeping on the 02Agat3    26:1 | dwelling in the desert in a retreat of his own. However 02Agat3    26:4 | the district of Daranaghiq, in a retreat on the mountain called 02Agat3    26:5 | give to the king as a bishop his son, Aristakes, whom 02Agat3    26:15 | earlier ignorance when he was a pagan, might not be remembered 02Agat3    26:16 | the gospel. And thus, leading a reformed and sober and religious 02Agat3    27:2 | divine message they should become a perfect nation, glorifying the one 02Agat3    27:10 | over mankind, calling his kingdom a divinely-established kingdom. He became 02Agat3    28:15 | honors he exalted him as a confessor of Christ according to 02Agat3    28:16 | for king Trdat as for a dear brother, especially because of 02Agat3    29:3 | the assembly, leaving on earth a name for righteousness and establishing 02Agat3    30:1 | this as is suitable for a writer of chronicles, in this 02Agat3    30:2 | But we looked, as in a mirror [cf. I Cor. 13.12], at the divinely imposed 02Agat3    30:3 | given to other prophets: “Take a new and large sheet and 02Agat3    30:3 | elsewhere: “Write this vision on a tablet and establish it in 02Agat3    31:12 | from the virgin and became a perfect man. He truly became 02Agat3    31:12 | in the flesh and became a true man 02Agat3    31:19 | the Son; not created, not a servant, not a commandment-doer 02Agat3    31:19 | created, not a servant, not a commandment-doer but a commandment 02Agat3    31:19 | not a commandment-doer but a commandment-giver. For one is 03Buz3    1:3 | For there is a part of our history which 03Buz3    1:3 | which is the beginning, and a part which is the ending 03Buz3    1:4 | to complete the contents like a brick placed in the wall 03Buz3    1:4 | placed in the wall of a building we recorded 03Buz3    1:6 | As a result, sections are arranged in 03Buz3    2:1 | Gregory’s younger son Aristakes was a co-bishop with his father 03Buz3    3:6 | accordance with his constant custom, a mass of thanksgiving for the 03Buz3    3:10 | Vrtanes was going about with a few attendants to perform the 03Buz3    3:14 | was inside performing the service, a large number of troops on 03Buz3    3:22 | one Lord Jesus Christ, saying a great deal to them 03Buz3    3:24 | medicine of repentance. Vrtanes stipulated a time of atonement for them 03Buz3    4:1 | In that period a great agitation arose in the 03Buz3    4:1 | with great rancour stirred up a fight, warring with one another 03Buz3    4:8 | of the sparapetut’iwn of Armenia, a great general with his troops 03Buz3    4:9 | azgs and did not leave a single male child alive. Then 03Buz3    5:1 | Gregory. Aristakes, who had been a pure celibate from childhood, was 03Buz3    5:2 | married, but was childless. For a long time, he beseeched God 03Buz3    5:2 | him of the blessing of a son, a fruit of his 03Buz3    5:2 | the blessing of a son, a fruit of his own who 03Buz3    5:8 | pregnant after Yusik then still a lad entered her on the 03Buz3    5:9 | In a vision Yusik saw as though 03Buz3    5:11 | who had forced him as a lad to marry. But this 03Buz3    5:17 | was no longer tricked as a lad might be, but having 03Buz3    5:21 | angel appeared to him in a vision and note 03Buz3    5:25 | For where the foundation of a structure is, there the pinnacle 03Buz3    5:28 | unmoved in the faith, as a rock, and will conquer the 03Buz3    5:30 | made him worthy of such a revealed answer. And every day 03Buz3    6:1 | while he too was still a lad. He built and rennovated 03Buz3    6:2 | supplications and perfect faith. Like a heroic warrior he trained and 03Buz3    6:5 | the Mazkutk, the prince of a multitude of Honk’ troops. In 03Buz3    6:9 | of others, how will such a huge multitude of troops as 03Buz3    6:9 | to win their hearts with a myriad of goodly words, they 03Buz3    6:10 | will be unable to mount a horse according to the natural 03Buz3    6:12 | and changed his mind. Taking a wild horse, they bound the 03Buz3    7:1 | and Baghaschs and Egersuans, with a multitude of other rabble, a 03Buz3    7:1 | a multitude of other rabble, a countless army of nomadic troops 03Buz3    7:4 | some notable spot and held a review by brigade, banner, and 03Buz3    7:4 | ordered that each man carry a stone, bring it and place 03Buz3    7:4 | and place it to make a mound. However, many stones were 03Buz3    7:8 | to save them from such a bitter executioner. This they asked 03Buz3    7:9 | the entire country for about a year 03Buz3    7:11 | period, he had gone on a long journey to the Byzantine 03Buz3    7:12 | bravest of the naxarars, organized a very large brigade, and fell 03Buz3    7:12 | anyone alive, and returned with a multitude of captives 03Buz3    7:15 | places would serve them as a refuge. There was an extremely 03Buz3    7:16 | amount of blood coursed like a river, and there was no 03Buz3    7:21 | country relaxed in peace for a full year. Thus, was vengeance 03Buz3    7:21 | None of them survived. Not a single one 03Buz3    8:1 | Armenia had been calmed for a while, Xosrov, king of Armenia 03Buz3    8:5 | South of this in a reedy area they filled up 03Buz3    8:6 | the two areas joined by a road, the forests grew tall 03Buz3    8:10 | the Bznunik’, to call up a larger than usual number of 03Buz3    8:12 | when Databe arrived, he made a plan of unity with the 03Buz3    8:17 | royal fish-reservoir located on a small river 03Buz3    8:19 | destroyed and did not leave a single one of them living 03Buz3    8:21 | killed him by lapidation as a man who would betray his 03Buz3    8:22 | Aght’amar. Sparapet Vach’e got into a boat, crossed over to the 03Buz3    8:24 | with king Xosrov. He made a law that the grandee nobility 03Buz3    9:9 | However, a certain small son of Bakur 03Buz3    10:1 | the great bishop of Mcbin, a marvellous old man who loved 03Buz3    10:1 | named (Yakob) James of Nisibis, a man chosen by God, left 03Buz3    10:1 | district of Korduk’. He was a man full of Christ’s graces 03Buz3    10:4 | he had placed his head a fountain gushed forth, and he 03Buz3    10:6 | When he reached a difficult place near the summit 03Buz3    10:9 | to have been split from a large piece of wood by 03Buz3    10:11 | to say that he had a less significant thing than this 03Buz3    10:15 | expectations (for their return) from a long journey with good news 03Buz3    10:17 | was visited upon all species, a symbol of their fathers’ deeds 03Buz3    10:18 | as an Apostle of Christ, a heavenly angel, and surrounded him 03Buz3    10:18 | him their shepherd and as a man who had spoken with 03Buz3    10:21 | had heard that Manachirh was a wicked and unfeeling and crookedly 03Buz3    10:24 | hurled into the sea from a promontory. Having destroyed so many 03Buz3    10:28 | This was a lofty mountain named Enjak’isar from 03Buz3    10:30 | head upon the ground. And a fountain gushed forth from which 03Buz3    10:39 | the emperor Constantine was wearing a hair-cloth underneath his purple 03Buz3    10:42 | robe, the emperor was wearing a hair-cloth for the love 03Buz3    11:14 | great chief-priest Vrtanes promulgated a law throughout the land that 03Buz3    11:14 | be remembered every year on a specific day and he made 03Buz3    11:14 | specific day and he made a canon that the people who 03Buz3    11:16 | General Vache had a son who was a very 03Buz3    11:16 | had a son who was a very little boy, named after 03Buz3    11:17 | Artawazd was the son of a very meritorious individual, and of 03Buz3    11:17 | very meritorious individual, and of a very meritorious azg; and furthermore 03Buz3    12:13 | Though he was but a lad, he was robust and 03Buz3    12:14 | With a soul clean and radiant he 03Buz3    12:14 | things. Rather, he was like a brave warrior of Christ, like 03Buz3    12:14 | brave warrior of Christ, like a champion hero who, from his 03Buz3    12:15 | of the Holy Spirit like a sword fixed to his waist 03Buz3    12:16 | with knowledge with which, like a fountain, he irrigated the ears 03Buz3    12:20 | in years he was but a lad, in wisdom he displayed 03Buz3    12:21 | and reflected happy genius as a fragrant flower. For the sake 03Buz3    12:26 | of his life he waged a war of reproach against everyone 03Buz3    13:0 | country of Armenia remained without a patriarch after the death of 03Buz3    13:1 | was leaderless, and was like a blind person, groping 03Buz3    13:3 | frenzy, since they remained without a leader 03Buz3    13:7 | obligation, as though it were a human error, and not in 03Buz3    13:8 | faith, as is necessary. Only a few who were to some 03Buz3    13:9 | able to understand or remember a single word, half a word 03Buz3    13:9 | remember a single word, half a word, or any bit of 03Buz3    13:11 | nibbled at each other, and a man would betray his comrade 03Buz3    13:13 | Then one could have seen a man, thirsting for the blood 03Buz3    13:13 | thirsting for the blood of a comrade, drinking it, how people 03Buz3    13:26 | were indeed interested in finding a new katoghikos not for the 03Buz3    13:26 | for the sake of Truth, a shepherd, leader, or head of 03Buz3    13:29 | As a result, they were not chosen 03Buz3    14:1 | During this time a marvelous man, the aged great 03Buz3    14:2 | He was a student of the great Gregory 03Buz3    14:12 | He was a marvelous man who worked very 03Buz3    14:13 | walk on the water of a river wearing his shoes, without 03Buz3    14:15 | to go some distance, like a flash of lightning, he was 03Buz3    14:18 | He wore a single garment of fur and 03Buz3    14:18 | single garment of fur and a pair of sandals; he ate 03Buz3    14:18 | and did not even use a cane 03Buz3    14:21 | the great mountain called Tsul, a stone’s throw below where the 03Buz3    14:22 | the great Gregory had baptized a multitude of troops 03Buz3    14:24 | assembled in one place, held a meeting, and took counsel. They 03Buz3    14:25 | A certain, prince of the Saharunik 03Buz3    14:25 | prince of the Saharunik tohm [zvomn ishxann:] (“ a certain prince”), Artawan, prince of 03Buz3    14:46 | Now, as a result of so much of 03Buz3    14:48 | You will become sheep without a shepherd, and like a flock 03Buz3    14:48 | without a shepherd, and like a flock you will be betrayed 03Buz3    14:58 | did not heed them. Placing a rope around Daniel’s throat, the 03Buz3    14:60 | A multitude of people who recognized 03Buz3    14:61 | should take his body to a place which he himself commanded 03Buz3    16:1 | considered worthy of the katoghikosate a certain presbyter named Parhen from 03Buz3    16:1 | chapel of John the Baptist, a man who had earlier constructed 03Buz3    16:1 | of prayer and supplication as a repository for the saints 03Buz3    16:4 | occupied the patriarchal throne for a short while. Although he did 03Buz3    16:6 | in the district of Taron, a place where Parhen had lived 03Buz3    17:1 | people unitedly held counsel in a popular assembly [ashxarhoren xorhurd] to decide to 03Buz3    17:2 | tun of Gregory, they designated a certain Shahak from the tohm 03Buz3    17:9 | As a result, the Lord God grew 03Buz3    17:11 | kings of Armenia could find a friend among them, only enemies 03Buz3    18:1 | of Armenia, and they worked a myriad of diverse hostile deeds 03Buz3    18:4 | patiw of the great mardpetutiwn, a wicked-hearted, malicious malefactor 03Buz3    19:0 | how they were killed in a blessed place because of their 03Buz3    19:2 | eyes. They conducted themselves in a licentious way, in adultery, and 03Buz3    19:6 | appeared in the form of a bolt of lightning, striking the 03Buz3    19:12 | Atanagines was survived by a son from the king’s sister 03Buz3    19:13 | However, he had relations with a concubine from the district of 03Buz3    19:13 | missing Pap was survived by a son called Vrik 03Buz3    20:0 | was lost and how, in a period of peace, he was 03Buz3    20:2 | In the land of Atrpatakan a high-ranking individual named Shapuh 03Buz3    20:3 | agitation was stirred up as a result of some insignificant matter 03Buz3    20:3 | of some insignificant matter by a certain vile man who was 03Buz3    20:3 | who was not less than a demon [dew] in frenzy named Pisak 03Buz3    20:4 | the land of Atrpatakan as a border-guard 03Buz3    20:5 | that time king Tiran possessed a horse which everyone greatly marvelled 03Buz3    20:7 | he had become friendly. Taking a letter from him, he brought 03Buz3    20:9 | two kings, Tiran sought out a horse possessing the same color 03Buz3    20:9 | he could not find such a large horse anywhere. He found 03Buz3    20:9 | large horse anywhere. He found a horse of the same roan 03Buz3    20:11 | Iranian forces that to preserve a single hide, he concealed it 03Buz3    20:15 | mouthed Pisak, he immediately wrote a letter of accusation against the 03Buz3    20:21 | rich in game, nor make a great slaughter of game for 03Buz3    20:25 | and kill his lord. For a few days they made merry 03Buz3    20:28 | Tiran was alone except for a few attendants, keepers of the 03Buz3    20:29 | Iranian general had arrived with a dense brigade - he had some 03Buz3    20:31 | After a few days had passed the 03Buz3    20:31 | Iranians invited the king to a dinner, to honor him 03Buz3    20:32 | with him became quite drunk, a force which had been lying 03Buz3    20:34 | When they arrived at a village named Dalarik, the Iranian 03Buz3    20:37 | Coal instead of Dalarik as a clear sign in memory of 03Buz3    20:42 | Although they assembled and organized a brigade, ready to pursue Varaz 03Buz3    20:43 | But they took a part of the land of 03Buz3    20:43 | land, and turned it into a ruin 03Buz3    21:0 | and escaped to Iran by a hairsbreadth 03Buz3    21:1 | land of Armenia assembled in a larger meeting of unity. This 03Buz3    21:2 | They sent a delegation consisting of the great 03Buz3    21:7 | the main baggage, all in a great caravan, with a multitude 03Buz3    21:7 | in a great caravan, with a multitude of elephants, unlimited supplies 03Buz3    21:11 | army in the disguise of a shinakan cabbage-seller 03Buz3    21:16 | was able to escape by a hairsbreadth and go free as 03Buz3    21:16 | hairsbreadth and go free as a fugitive, thanks to a swift 03Buz3    21:16 | as a fugitive, thanks to a swift running pony. And he 03Buz3    21:19 | king of Iran went as a fugitive to his own country 03Buz3    21:21 | arisen over an insignificant matter, a malicious slander, that the frenzied 03Buz3    21:25 | emperor of Byzantium, Vaghes, wrote a hrovartak to the king of 03Buz3    21:34 | great chronicler-historian, who was a Greek chronicler, has ended 03Buz4    2:8 | of an eagle, emblazoned with a bird, the fearless, brave-hearted 03Buz4    3:2 | the attendees, that they select a leader from the tun of 03Buz4    3:6 | During his youth, leading a lay life, he had married 03Buz4    3:7 | At that time, he was a military official, the beloved chamberlain 03Buz4    3:8 | He was a tall man, of pleasing size 03Buz4    3:9 | very intelligent, unbiased, just, humble, a lover of the poor, proper 03Buz4    3:10 | in military matters he had a perfectly virtuous behavior. From his 03Buz4    3:11 | He never tired, with a zeal for God in his 03Buz4    3:12 | poor and afflicted and kept a watchful eye on them, to 03Buz4    3:13 | he was a helper and superintendent to the 03Buz4    3:14 | at the atean generally raised a shout, saying: “Let Nerses be 03Buz4    3:17 | came forward and began speaking a little bit falsely about himself 03Buz4    3:22 | The multitude of troops raised a cry saying: “It is just 03Buz4    3:31 | Who summoned him to such a calling, and placed the thought 03Buz4    3:33 | his ancestors, to Yusik, in a vision from God, that a 03Buz4    3:33 | a vision from God, that a man would be born to 03Buz4    4:8 | as he entered the church, a white dove descended over the 03Buz4    4:9 | priests with him entered, including a chief presbyter named Barsighios, the 03Buz4    4:24 | of Thaddeus flourish, and was a son like his fathers 03Buz4    4:27 | the plant to grow, becoming a co-worker of the seeders 03Buz4    4:27 | of the kingdom. He was a substitute and co-worker of 03Buz4    4:33 | this consensual assembly, and held a beneficial consultation to implement the 03Buz4    4:34 | country of Armenia became like a general community of monastics, except 03Buz4    4:59 | that it is easier for a thick rope to pass through 03Buz4    4:59 | pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich 03Buz4    4:59 | of a needle than for a rich greedy man to enter 03Buz4    4:68 | teaching and schooling everyone, like a very kind father, like a 03Buz4    4:68 | a very kind father, like a loving mother, inspiring everyone with 03Buz4    5:1 | send to the Byzantine empire a delegation regarding the treaty of 03Buz4    5:7 | from the Father, and not a creation, descended from the Father 03Buz4    5:7 | the very beginning He was a collaborator and co-creator with 03Buz4    5:7 | sky in the form of a vault (over it), Whose hands 03Buz4    5:7 | man from the earth as a reasonable, talking, wise (being) and 03Buz4    5:8 | from the Virgin an incarnation, a human image, Himself he humbled 03Buz4    5:8 | Himself he humbled himself, became a man, suffered by his own 03Buz4    5:10 | and confess the birth of a Son from the Father from 03Buz4    5:13 | his mighty paternal essence, as a perfect only Begotten, similar pairing 03Buz4    5:13 | appeared from this woman as a man. He was by nature 03Buz4    5:13 | flesh in the form of a servant 03Buz4    5:14 | master in the form of a servant to save us from 03Buz4    5:17 | and He was born of a Virgin in the form of 03Buz4    5:17 | Virgin in the form of a man, to establish peace in 03Buz4    5:18 | believes in Christ, he was a renewed being 03Buz4    5:22 | had, God was born as a man, that we, freed from 03Buz4    5:24 | And a little later he makes it 03Buz4    5:42 | their hearts and bodies, building a temple for the Holy Spirit 03Buz4    5:46 | now we see him in a prominent example, in the future 03Buz4    5:46 | have many merits and have a desire to show their glorious 03Buz4    5:46 | like those who endure for a long time, hoping for those 03Buz4    5:55 | the Lord) keeps them as a substance for fire 03Buz4    5:58 | the faith. Let this be a sign for you: if by 03Buz4    5:67 | wished to kill him with a sinister death. But the elders 03Buz4    5:67 | were sent for business from a foreign and distant country by 03Buz4    5:67 | foreign and distant country by a powerful king - these are deputies 03Buz4    5:67 | on our part, if not, a great war will begin between 03Buz4    5:67 | and the great Armenian king, a great enmity will break out 03Buz4    5:67 | break out, the life of a child or death did not 03Buz4    5:69 | It was a very difficult situation, the whole 03Buz4    5:72 | and this man is also a big and senior person and 03Buz4    5:73 | is loved, that he is a prominent person there 03Buz4    5:74 | told us that this is a relative and close one to 03Buz4    5:77 | and ruined us, he is a criminal and harmful right in 03Buz4    5:78 | should be responsible, he is a condemned man 03Buz4    5:79 | the Great Sea, to such a desolate place where there is 03Buz4    5:79 | drinking water, no food, only a desert to die of hunger 03Buz4    5:80 | all places and made up a large assembly 03Buz4    5:84 | And a great movement arose in all 03Buz4    5:85 | all believers in Christ suffered a kind of tribulation, all nations 03Buz4    5:87 | end of the prayers with a pilgrimage ask God that this 03Buz4    5:87 | persecuted, perhaps they will have a return from here 03Buz4    5:89 | of Armenia. He also wrote a letter of accusation to him 03Buz4    6:0 | Saint Nerses was exiled to a deserted island and how he 03Buz4    6:1 | wanted to betray him to a painful bitter death 03Buz4    6:3 | exiled to an island in a huge ocean-sea, to a 03Buz4    6:3 | a huge ocean-sea, to a desolate, arid place where there 03Buz4    6:6 | everywhere and drove them onto a ship and took them to 03Buz4    6:7 | set off and, thanks to a fair wind, reached the specified 03Buz4    6:9 | they stayed there for about a month, the weaker of them 03Buz4    6:10 | fruit in the form of a ram, and accepted Isaac as 03Buz4    6:10 | ram, and accepted Isaac as a living sacrifice, blessed Jacob in 03Buz4    6:10 | living sacrifice, blessed Jacob in a foreign land, saved Joseph from 03Buz4    6:10 | eat, and Christ himself, becoming a stone, wandered with them through 03Buz4    6:10 | future, he foreshadowed Moses with a rod, pierced a rock and 03Buz4    6:10 | Moses with a rod, pierced a rock and expelled water for 03Buz4    6:10 | himself fed the people with a small amount of bread in 03Buz4    6:12 | Well, are we asking for a sign 03Buz4    6:13 | No, a sign is needed for the 03Buz4    6:14 | evil generation is looking for a sign,” God forbid 03Buz4    6:17 | He can also send us a peaceful death and honor the 03Buz4    6:19 | ground three times and prayed, a strong wind rose in the 03Buz4    6:19 | sea and began to throw a large number of fishes onto 03Buz4    6:19 | formed there, as well as a lot of firewood 03Buz4    6:20 | firewood and piled it in a pile, they thought that they 03Buz4    6:20 | they thought that they needed a fire to light the firewood 03Buz4    6:22 | on the island, and there a spring of fresh water was 03Buz4    6:25 | this, he demands from us a little virtue, only that we 03Buz4    7:1 | saw that miracle, namely, that a dove descended from heaven first 03Buz4    7:2 | Spirit) in the form of a dove descended and sat first 03Buz4    7:5 | inexhaustible source of wisdom and a devoted teacher of Christ’s teaching 03Buz4    7:6 | As a result of all this, everyone 03Buz4    7:6 | an apostle of Christ, as a heavenly angel, and everyone testified 03Buz4    8:0 | how he wished to arrange a dispute between true believers and 03Buz4    8:0 | malicious sectarians, and how in a miraculous vision Saint Basil was 03Buz4    8:0 | Saint Basil was invited to a dispute and with God’s help 03Buz4    8:2 | sense) wrote and sent out a strict order everywhere 03Buz4    8:3 | the king: “Let us arrange a dispute between us and them 03Buz4    8:5 | Eusebius, with the announcement that a discussion of their confession was 03Buz4    8:6 | because he did not possess a special gift of speech 03Buz4    8:7 | it was decided to send a man to Blessed Basil, to 03Buz4    8:8 | Because, they said, he has a powerful word, and he has 03Buz4    8:8 | powerful word, and he has a great gift for suppressing the 03Buz4    8:9 | Bishop Eusebius wrote a letter of supplication to Archpriest 03Buz4    8:10 | All the clergy signed a letter of entreaty that he 03Buz4    8:12 | and Saint Basil fell into a deep sleep at the place 03Buz4    8:12 | stay, performing divine services; in a dream he saw a large 03Buz4    8:12 | in a dream he saw a large, beautiful garden, abounding in 03Buz4    8:15 | because they will still cause a lot of harm 03Buz4    8:17 | Caesarea arrived and handed him a letter 03Buz4    8:23 | bishops, and they entered into a discussion and dispute about the 03Buz4    8:26 | and one donkey along such a long way, and you still 03Buz4    8:28 | and this anxiety for? As a sovereign, order you to persecute 03Buz4    9:0 | how St. Basil was made a bishop and how God’s miracle 03Buz4    9:0 | God, or how they made a vow and prayed for their 03Buz4    9:2 | together to ordain Saint Basil, a dove descended from heaven and 03Buz4    9:5 | said, bears the name of a Christian in my state, he 03Buz4    9:6 | bearing the name would have a single grain of gold or 03Buz4    9:8 | bring what they have with a joyful heart 03Buz4    9:10 | property, for there is such a treasure in heaven for you 03Buz4    9:10 | here to your hands in a short time 03Buz4    9:13 | And all the people made a vow and prayed that this 03Buz4    10:0 | truth, how the sophist saw a miracle, namely the martyrs gathered 03Buz4    10:0 | the Emperor Valens died by a sign revealed by God, or 03Buz4    10:1 | ordered to search and find a skilled person who could speak 03Buz4    10:2 | was told that there was a certain skilled sophist in some 03Buz4    10:4 | outside the city there was a chapel in the name of 03Buz4    10:5 | interior of the chapel as a place to spend the night 03Buz4    10:6 | chapel doors had opened and a great multitude of martyrs appeared 03Buz4    10:7 | out to meet them, in a shiny robe, from which rays 03Buz4    10:9 | Then the saints entered into a conversation and note: “Those saints 03Buz4    10:9 | live on earth are in a difficult situation: some are in 03Buz4    10:11 | many gardens have turned into a wasteland; we need to curb 03Buz4    10:14 | they were sent, having appointed a time for them: (“Tomorrow) come 03Buz4    10:29 | On this there was a big dispute between them, they 03Buz4    10:31 | The officials gave him a three-day deadline, and three 03Buz4    11:6 | emperor’s hrovartak and with it a document of displeasure and accusation 03Buz4    11:10 | how he dared to detain a man such as Nerses, great 03Buz4    11:12 | Vasak, his general, to assemble a force, to organize brigades, and 03Buz4    12:1 | This man, Xad, was a native of the Karin district 03Buz4    12:8 | period the king built himself a dastakert in the so-called 03Buz4    12:10 | had shed blood, had committed a crime, had abducted a woman 03Buz4    12:10 | committed a crime, had abducted a woman, or were guilty, had 03Buz4    12:15 | Rights have died, and as a result cannot be found. If 03Buz4    12:16 | place became an awan and a city and became so large 03Buz4    12:17 | himself, Arshakawan. They also built a royal mansion there 03Buz4    12:19 | As a result of this, the blessed 03Buz4    12:21 | He note: “I am a locum tenens, and have no 03Buz4    12:31 | they wash and he placed a meal before them, and greatly 03Buz4    12:34 | of them in marriage to a certain Asurk who, after the 03Buz4    13:17 | For I have seen in a vision that destruction and demolition 03Buz4    13:26 | of people. Of [20000] households not a single person remained alive. For 03Buz4    13:35 | with him, and he made a vow that he would never 03Buz4    14:1 | Now the mardpet Hayr was a man more wicked and morally 03Buz4    14:7 | to pray and to receive a greeting from the holy archbishop 03Buz4    14:8 | blessed patriarch Nerses ordered that a meal be prepared for those 03Buz4    14:9 | senior status, Hayr went for a walk from the episcopal residence 03Buz4    14:14 | shall demolish these places, for a royal mansion should be built 03Buz4    14:15 | the people here, and construct a royal chamber 03Buz4    14:17 | of the Euphrates river, in a valley dense with forests of 03Buz4    14:19 | betrayed into the hands of a man named Shawasp, a remnant 03Buz4    14:19 | of a man named Shawasp, a remnant of the Arcrunik azg 03Buz4    14:20 | While Hayr was seated in a wagon and was travelling on 03Buz4    14:20 | began to tell the mardpet a fictitious story, saying: “I saw 03Buz4    14:20 | fictitious story, saying: “I saw a bear as white as the 03Buz4    14:21 | of the wagon, and mounting a steed. Then they entered the 03Buz4    14:23 | immediately. For no word of a man of God falls unheeded 03Buz4    15:0 | him; how he later brought a wife named Oghimb, from Byzantium 03Buz4    15:0 | priest Mrjiwnik killed her with a fatal poison in the Eucharist 03Buz4    15:1 | In those times there was a beautiful woman named Paranjem who 03Buz4    15:1 | who was the daughter of a certain Andovk, one of the 03Buz4    15:3 | about, and her reputation as a beauty grew and increased 03Buz4    15:11 | The king thus had a grudge against the lad Gnel 03Buz4    15:11 | plotting treachery against him for a long time 03Buz4    15:13 | try to summon Gnel with a great oath, treacherously, so that 03Buz4    15:15 | found the lad Gnel in a nearby place, that is, in 03Buz4    15:16 | With a great vow and much deception 03Buz4    15:26 | in her husband’s battalion in a palanquin 03Buz4    15:31 | His natural heights and became a brother to us, His unworthy 03Buz4    15:35 | your harazat brother and kill a righteous man in merciless injustice 03Buz4    15:38 | rather, with the behavior of a beast, you have begun to 03Buz4    15:43 | will end your life with a bitter death, in great suffering 03Buz4    15:48 | corpse weeping and commanded that a great mourning be held near 03Buz4    15:53 | He sent a messenger to the wife of 03Buz4    15:53 | so much, for I am a better man than he was 03Buz4    15:54 | Tirit sent such a message while the mourners were 03Buz4    15:55 | Paranjem raised a protest, pulling out her hair 03Buz4    15:60 | wife, he plotted this evil, a grudge, and this senseless and 03Buz4    15:61 | circumstances of the case, for a while he was quiet and 03Buz4    15:62 | he was killed, and after a goodly number of days had 03Buz4    15:62 | deed was committed, Tirit sent a message to the king 03Buz4    15:71 | country of Byzantium requesting that a woman by azg of the 03Buz4    15:71 | tohm be sent him as a wife. Her name was Oghompi 03Buz4    15:72 | first wife. Paranjem therefore had a grudge against Olympias and sought 03Buz4    15:73 | then Paranjem bore the king a son whom they named Pap 03Buz4    15:74 | robust, they gave him as a hostage to the emperor’s court 03Buz4    15:76 | giving her poison, she approached a certain presbyter of the royal 03Buz4    15:77 | evil, deserving of eternal torments, a deed unexampled, unheard of - mixing 03Buz4    15:79 | the village whence he came, a village named Gomkunk in the 03Buz4    15:80 | place of Nerses they established a certain Chunak as the head 03Buz4    15:83 | Chunak was a discreet man, never advising or 03Buz4    16:2 | treated well by him, as a brother or a son, and 03Buz4    16:2 | him, as a brother or a son, and Shapuh gave him 03Buz4    16:8 | He did such a deed suddenly and fearlessly even 03Buz4    16:11 | As a result of that deed Shapuh 03Buz4    16:14 | Therefore he requested a vow from him and intensely 03Buz4    16:18 | He wanted to create a disturbance between Arshak king of 03Buz4    16:20 | that he would not permit a single Christian man to live 03Buz4    17:0 | Shapuh, king of Iran, initiated a persecution against those of the 03Buz4    17:1 | were killed, king Shapuh began a great persecution of members of 03Buz4    17:2 | even bears the name of a Christian shall be removed and 03Buz4    17:2 | my authority who calls himself a Christian 03Buz4    18:1 | the Mamikonean tohm, came on a mission from the king of 03Buz4    18:10 | For Paranjem held a grudge against Vardan since it 03Buz4    18:10 | had treacherously, fraudulently, and with a great oath summoned her husband 03Buz4    18:11 | the king against him. Indeed, a force was assembled against Vardan 03Buz4    19:3 | sparapet Vasak concealed and saved a tiny child from that azg 03Buz4    19:4 | King Arshak ordered that a secure fortress be constructed for 03Buz4    19:4 | in the district of Arsharunik, a fortress named Artagers 03Buz4    20:7 | his sparapet, Vasak, to assemble a brigade and prepare troops 03Buz4    20:10 | King Arshak with a multitude of naxarars went through 03Buz4    20:12 | already arrived and encamped in a multitude as dense as the 03Buz4    20:17 | they were impatient waiting in a foreign land and considered it 03Buz4    20:21 | so much so that not a single Byzantine soldier survived 03Buz4    20:25 | Armenia, for having accomplished such a deed, displaying such bravery, attacking 03Buz4    20:25 | such an enemy, waging such a battle and winning it as 03Buz4    20:25 | as well as receiving such a good name 03Buz4    20:31 | my daughter in marriage and a great tun, such a tun 03Buz4    20:31 | and a great tun, such a tun so that when he 03Buz4    20:35 | prospects of going on such a long journey, for each of 03Buz4    20:42 | Then Andovk approached a certain one of the seniors 03Buz4    20:43 | Andovk gave him a huge, inestimable amount of gold 03Buz4    20:44 | Arshak to summon us to a council, and the nobility will 03Buz4    20:57 | heard this since he was a wise man, he realized in 03Buz4    20:58 | of his senior grandees on a mission, galloping after the king 03Buz4    20:58 | with them the promise of a vow of affectionate alliance and 03Buz4    20:58 | vow of affectionate alliance and a reproach that the Armenians return 03Buz4    21:8 | sorrowful distress he sealed such a contract, gave it to the 03Buz4    21:14 | the Iranian king escaped on a horse and fled 03Buz4    22:4 | many troops from the land, a countless multitude 03Buz4    22:14 | Now Bagos chanced upon a brigade of elephants, and noticed 03Buz4    22:16 | as for the Iranians, not a single one of them survived 03Buz4    22:18 | the land of Iran on a horse 03Buz4    22:19 | one of the battles, not a single one of the Armenians 03Buz4    23:2 | life, for he had been a believer in God, but he 03Buz4    23:3 | Then he made a vow with Shapuh, king of 03Buz4    23:3 | build an atrushan, that is, a temple for worshipping the fire 03Buz4    23:12 | After freeing a countless, immeasurable host, all who 03Buz4    24:0 | actions; and how he became a leader for the Iranian king 03Buz4    24:3 | as their leader, came through a different area and raided Armenia 03Buz4    24:4 | about with his multitudes like a flood 03Buz4    24:6 | a multitude of men were trampled 03Buz4    24:6 | were trampled by elephants and a countless number of tender children 03Buz4    24:11 | because the malefactor Meruzhan devised a strategem against this secure fortress 03Buz4    24:18 | own places and transferred to a foreign land 03Buz4    24:19 | about, leaving king Arshak in a secure spot somewhere in the 03Buz4    24:22 | was able to escape by a hairsbreadth and flee 03Buz4    24:26 | the great Aragac mountain, in a place difficult of access 03Buz4    25:1 | mustered troops, surrounding himself with a host as incalculable as the 03Buz4    25:5 | The king escaped by a hairsbreadth fleeing on a horse 03Buz4    25:5 | by a hairsbreadth fleeing on a horse, and the Armenians took 03Buz4    27:1 | against the king of Armenia a brigade of organized, prepared men 03Buz4    27:2 | their ornaments, and not sparing a single one of them. And 03Buz4    30:1 | Armenian kingdoms. They arrived at a place called Maxazean 03Buz4    31:2 | land of Armenia, having as a guide the notorious Meruzhan of 03Buz4    31:7 | the malefactor, Meruzhan, escaped by a hairsbreadth, fleeing on a horse 03Buz4    31:7 | by a hairsbreadth, fleeing on a horse to the country of 03Buz4    32:2 | sent Dehkan nahapet who was a tohm-member by azg of 03Buz4    33:1 | Pahlaw who, in fact, was a relative of Arshak, the king 03Buz4    34:1 | countless troops, having Meruzhan as a guide 03Buz4    34:2 | with the troops, not sparing a single one of them 03Buz4    36:5 | But Meruzhan survived, a fugitive 03Buz4    37:1 | as the king of Armenia, a relative, came on king Shapuh’s 03Buz4    38:1 | Then Aghanayozan who was a Pahlaw from the Arsacid tohm 03Buz4    39:3 | king, he used it as a target and shot it full 03Buz4    40:1 | A certain one of the Iranian 03Buz4    40:3 | guide, survived and fled, with a few others 03Buz4    41:1 | A certain one of the Iranian 03Buz4    41:3 | the Iranian troops, sparing not a single one of them. They 03Buz4    42:1 | Then a certain great naxarar named Marichan 03Buz4    43:1 | A certain Zindakapet, a military commander 03Buz4    43:1 | A certain Zindakapet, a military commander of the Iranian 03Buz4    44:2 | him to the dews as a gift. Many dews dwelled in 03Buz4    44:5 | he seeks men for abomination, a practise he has fallen into 03Buz4    45:5 | Only Meruzhan Arcruni survived, as a fugitive 03Buz4    47:5 | However, only Meruzhan, mounted on a tacik horse, fled 03Buz4    48:2 | Having made an entrenchment in a secure place, he wanted to 03Buz4    49:1 | A certain great military commander of 03Buz4    50:4 | the Aghjnik area. They made a wall in a place called 03Buz4    50:4 | They made a wall in a place called Joray, they put 03Buz4    50:14 | him his sister Ormizduxt for a wife. He bestowed upon him 03Buz4    51:16 | who were assembled there raised a clamor, shouted to each other 03Buz4    52:0 | The Iranian king for a time suspended warfare against Arshak 03Buz4    52:3 | he took heart to send a hrovartak in humility to Shapuh 03Buz4    52:3 | king of Iran, as suited a servant to his lord 03Buz4    53:0 | summoned the Armenian king Arshak a second time; how Arshak went 03Buz4    53:3 | Now Arshak requested from him a reliable vow with an oath 03Buz4    53:4 | him salt, to seal with a signet-ring bearing a wild 03Buz4    53:4 | with a signet-ring bearing a wild boar, and he sent 03Buz4    53:9 | Arshak and threatened him as a servant, and Arshak recognized that 03Buz4    54:0 | of Armenia be put to a wicked death 03Buz4    54:2 | I made a covenant of peace with him 03Buz4    54:3 | he broke that oath. Like a father to a son, I 03Buz4    54:3 | oath. Like a father to a son, I thought to do 03Buz4    54:6 | of them be executed in a ditch and their co-religionists 03Buz4    54:15 | two loads of soil and a pitcher of water 03Buz4    54:18 | Now, should he speak with a rough manner while walking over 03Buz4    54:20 | In a few days they brought what 03Buz4    54:23 | loved you like you were a son, I wanted to marry 03Buz4    54:26 | Behold, I am a servant in your hand. Do 03Buz4    54:33 | the Iranian king. There was a custom that the Armenian king 03Buz4    54:36 | For a moment he remained seated there 03Buz4    54:38 | I will kill you with a fox’s death 03Buz4    54:39 | For until now I was a lion to you, but now 03Buz4    54:39 | you, but now, I am a fox. While I was Vasak 03Buz4    54:39 | I was Vasak, I was a giant with one foot on 03Buz4    54:42 | we could have taught you a lesson. But with our eyes 03Buz4    55:1 | of Iran, dispatched against Armenia a certain two of his princes 03Buz4    55:13 | secretly enter the fortress through a secret door and give the 03Buz4    55:15 | The encouragement prolonged things. “ A moment more,” they would say 03Buz4    55:15 | they would say, “Hold out a little longer and lo, help 03Buz4    55:18 | No more than a month after the sickness began 03Buz4    55:18 | women - they did not last a month. Almost everyone in the 03Buz4    55:20 | greatly insulted the tikin as a whore 03Buz4    55:35 | They did not leave a single building in the entire 03Buz4    55:45 | tikin Paranjem, with treasures and a multitude of captives, they went 03Buz4    55:48 | ordered that in the concourse a contrivance be placed, and that 03Buz4    56:2 | and saw the priest Zuit, a tall and attractive man, but 03Buz4    56:2 | tall and attractive man, but a youth, The hair on his 03Buz4    56:3 | you see that he is a man of evil? It is 03Buz4    56:3 | his hair that he is a witch, for his hair is 03Buz4    56:7 | he be allowed to pray a little 03Buz4    56:11 | yourself descended (from heaven), became a man, appeared on earth and 03Buz4    56:13 | servant, you have given me, a sufferer, the opportunity to be 03Buz4    56:13 | Nerses, and to be ordained a priest by him, and to 03Buz4    56:13 | him, and to be ordained a priest by him to you 03Buz4    56:18 | his neck and died from a sword blow 03Buz4    57:7 | king Shapuh himself, mounted on a horse quickly rode around the 03Buz4    57:8 | For he had pitched a tent near the arena and 03Buz4    57:10 | get vengeance on Andovk, as a result of whom there was 03Buz4    58:5 | But when not a single one of them agreed 03Buz4    58:6 | Now Vahan had a half-sister of the Mamikonean 03Buz4    58:7 | fortress of Van, which is a city in the district of 03Buz4    58:8 | she should be hanged from a lofty tower and killed 03Buz4    58:9 | Mazdaism they took her to a high tower which was located 03Buz4    58:9 | tower which was located over a high rock precipice. They stripped 03Buz4    58:10 | She had a white body and a dazzling 03Buz4    58:10 | had a white body and a dazzling appearance, and remained hanging 03Buz4    58:10 | appearance, and remained hanging there, a wondrous sight. Her body on 03Buz4    58:10 | it, as though it were a miraculous phenomenon 03Buz4    58:11 | sight of the tikin Hamazaspuhi, a woman, a dayeak of hers 03Buz4    58:11 | the tikin Hamazaspuhi, a woman, a dayeak of hers stood with 03Buz5    1:3 | the stratelate named Terent and a certain count Ade along with 03Buz5    1:12 | the Armenian troops, and held a review of all the troops 03Buz5    1:13 | Mushegh, sparapet of Armenia, conducted a military review of the Armenian 03Buz5    1:16 | Armenia, Mushegh, organized and prepared a brigade and then advanced with 03Buz5    1:16 | Armenian brigade. They went as a vanguard before king Pap and 03Buz5    1:17 | of Daranaghik, Mushegh attacked like a wolf, and as the advance 03Buz5    1:21 | one to escape, fleeing on a horse 03Buz5    1:27 | illuminated, advised, arranged, and built a resting-place for the poor 03Buz5    2:0 | point that Shapuh escaped on a horse by a hairsbreadth 03Buz5    2:0 | escaped on a horse by a hairsbreadth 03Buz5    2:4 | Iran, Shapuh, barely escaped by a hairsbreadth and fled on a 03Buz5    2:4 | a hairsbreadth and fled on a horse, though Mushegh and the 03Buz5    2:11 | At that time Mushegh had a white horse. So, when Shapuh 03Buz5    2:12 | He had a picture of Mushegh on the 03Buz5    2:12 | the white horse, engraved on a cup, and when rejoicing he 03Buz5    2:13 | the Iranian banak. They kept a large share of the loot 03Buz5    2:13 | loot for their king, Pap, a share for those Armenian troops 03Buz5    2:13 | had remained with king Pap, a share for the Byzantine generals 03Buz5    2:13 | of Armenia, and similarly, and a share for all the troops 03Buz5    2:15 | As a result of this matter the 03Buz5    2:15 | king of Armenia, Pap, for a long time felt no small 03Buz5    3:1 | tikin as though she were a whore, then he slipped out 03Buz5    3:2 | of Armenia, bearing with him a hrovartak which contained the order 03Buz5    3:7 | in the mardpetut’iwn they put a certain man named Dgghak, who 03Buz5    4:1 | king of Iran again held a muster of all his forces 03Buz5    4:2 | He himself remained there with a few people but he sent 03Buz5    4:3 | king of Armenia, ordered that a muster be held at Bagawan 03Buz5    4:4 | place by king Pap, digging a trench around their banak near 03Buz5    4:7 | Urhnayr came forward and requested a favor from king Shapuh of 03Buz5    4:7 | bravest of men, order as a favor to me that I 03Buz5    4:7 | go with my brigade as a champion against the brigade of 03Buz5    4:9 | Urhnayr, saying: “You have promised a lot, but there will be 03Buz5    4:10 | of Armenia, by means of a messenger, and he note: “Be 03Buz5    4:10 | has requested fighting you as a favor. So, look to what 03Buz5    4:14 | up onto Npat mountain to a secure and safe place. Let 03Buz5    4:18 | I remember that Mushegh is a friend of king Shapuh of 03Buz5    4:21 | archbishop Nerses: “Do not be a mediator. For as soon as 03Buz5    4:32 | against the Iranian troops like a fire. The Musheghean brigade was 03Buz5    4:37 | begging me, as if I, a poor man, can pray to 03Buz5    4:38 | he measured the heavens by a span and placed the dust 03Buz5    4:56 | great and small alike. However, a few Iranian braves fled 03Buz5    4:59 | Be grateful that you are a king and have a crown 03Buz5    4:59 | are a king and have a crown. I will not kill 03Buz5    4:59 | crown. I will not kill a king even if I am 03Buz5    4:66 | my peers. Those who wear a crown are not my peers 03Buz5    4:66 | not lay my hands on a king 03Buz5    4:67 | me, do so. But should a king fall into my clutches 03Buz5    4:68 | to speak ill of Mushegh, a brave and honorable man 03Buz5    4:69 | death?’ Behold, he is a judicious man, who spared foreign 03Buz5    5:10 | to the slain person: “Be a sacrifice to our king Arshak 03Buz5    5:12 | champion, they would say: “Be a sacrifice for Arsak 03Buz5    5:13 | were surrounded with shields, resembling a secure city 03Buz5    5:14 | bearing Armenians as though entering a fortress, and rest there 03Buz5    5:15 | soon as they had rested a little, they would emerge thence 03Buz5    5:16 | shield-bearing troops, as to a secure fortress, the shields would 03Buz5    5:18 | fled from that battle, with a few retainers. The Armenians set 03Buz5    5:19 | king, I have not spent a single year without fighting. But 03Buz5    5:19 | But this recent war was a fiery one 03Buz5    5:20 | in front, they attacked like a tall mountain, or like a 03Buz5    5:20 | a tall mountain, or like a thick, mighty and immovable tower 03Buz5    5:20 | soon as we routed them a bit, they took refuge in 03Buz5    5:20 | them into the walls of a secure city 03Buz5    5:21 | There the Armenians would rest a little, and once again emerge 03Buz5    6:7 | Iran. Now I have found a way to put Pap at 03Buz5    6:9 | be taken and dressed in a robe of honor. So, they 03Buz5    6:11 | Then they put on a huge robe, and a belt 03Buz5    6:11 | on a huge robe, and a belt around his waist from 03Buz5    6:11 | around his waist from which a knife hanged down. A sword 03Buz5    6:11 | which a knife hanged down. A sword was also placed on 03Buz5    6:17 | Dghak was a large, personable man with big 03Buz5    6:20 | him, put the head on a spear, and erected it in 03Buz5    7:4 | There was a eunuch of Arshak, king of 03Buz5    7:4 | king of Armenia, who was a loyal ostikan, a eunuch beloved 03Buz5    7:4 | who was a loyal ostikan, a eunuch beloved and possessing a 03Buz5    7:4 | a eunuch beloved and possessing a great principality and great honor 03Buz5    7:12 | annoint, and dress him in a robe. I shall place him 03Buz5    7:12 | I shall place him on a couch and put delicacies before 03Buz5    7:13 | there. No one has recalled a prisoner there, to say nothing 03Buz5    7:13 | of this prisoner who is a king, my comrade, but now 03Buz5    7:13 | hands by mentioning Anyush. Such a thing has not happened from 03Buz5    7:16 | So Shapuh gave him a reliable pustipan, and a hrovartak 03Buz5    7:16 | him a reliable pustipan, and a hrovartak with the court seal 03Buz5    7:18 | dressed him in a noble robe, sat him on 03Buz5    7:18 | noble robe, sat him on a couch and made him recline 03Buz5    20:2 | and did not permit even a grain to be taken from 03Buz5    21:1 | initiative, consoled, provisioned and was a supervisor of all the poor 03Buz5    22:1 | when king Pap was still a boy, a newborn baby, his 03Buz5    22:1 | Pap was still a boy, a newborn baby, his impious mother 03Buz5    23:5 | anything of this sort to a man whom all the people 03Buz5    23:5 | everyone looked upon him as a heavenly angel 03Buz5    24:4 | the Ekegheats district. He made a dinner for him and beseeched 03Buz5    24:7 | will be able to attain a part of the legacy of 03Buz5    24:8 | king, it befits you as a king to openly order me 03Buz5    24:12 | up his tunic and revealed a blue swelling over his heart 03Buz5    24:12 | his heart, the size of a small loaf 03Buz5    24:13 | saying: “For me it was a great thing that I be 03Buz5    25:1 | mountains. One was named Shaghitay, a Syrian by nationality, who lived 03Buz5    25:1 | The other was named Epipan, a Greek by nationality, who, dwelled 03Buz5    25:2 | Arhewc mountain, since he was a sagacious man, realized that the 03Buz5    26:1 | This Shalita was a holy man, was a disciple 03Buz5    26:1 | was a holy man, was a disciple of the great Daniel 03Buz5    26:4 | Once a big lion splintered his paw 03Buz5    26:4 | lion splintered his paw with a reed; a lion came to 03Buz5    26:4 | his paw with a reed; a lion came to Saint Shalita 03Buz5    26:4 | to Saint Shalita and, like a man, raising his paw, showed 03Buz5    26:15 | sad news spread throughout Gavar, a huge crowd of people gathered 03Buz5    27:1 | Blessed Saint Epiphanes was a companion of Saint Shaghita and 03Buz5    27:1 | companion of Saint Shaghita and a disciple of the great Daniel 03Buz5    27:2 | settled in Metz-Tsopka, in a desert area named Mambre, on 03Buz5    27:2 | desert area named Mambre, on a river named Mamusheg 03Buz5    27:4 | Tsopk, and Saint Epiphan was a light for the country of 03Buz5    27:5 | country of Aldznik and built a chapel in the name of 03Buz5    27:6 | And there was a spring near the Mamushel River 03Buz5    27:6 | from the sources of which a lot of fish came out 03Buz5    27:7 | brothers quarreled among themselves over a fish, and one killed the 03Buz5    27:11 | they were walking, they met a woman alone. Passing by the 03Buz5    27:11 | the disciples and note: “What a beautiful and pleasant woman 03Buz5    27:15 | himself, and they crossed to a deserted island on ships. This 03Buz5    28:6 | transgressed your commandment and as a result of this fall were 03Buz5    28:7 | you renewed your creations with a second birth and visited your 03Buz5    28:9 | created the world, which is a reflection of your glory, an 03Buz5    28:9 | being, which endures everything with a powerful word, who, being by 03Buz5    28:9 | virgin, took the form of a servant and became like us 03Buz5    28:11 | we dare to ask you, a heart specialist who understands the 03Buz5    28:12 | of this man who leads a strict ascetic life, but he 03Buz5    28:13 | went out to look for a lost sheep, who laid down 03Buz5    28:15 | knelt down and prayed for a long time 03Buz5    28:17 | down on the altar, opened a wound on his side, formed 03Buz5    28:17 | on his side, formed from a spear wound, and from the 03Buz5    28:23 | But he dug himself a pit and in it for 03Buz5    29:0 | of Caesarea; and how as a result of that, the authority 03Buz5    29:1 | appointed bishop Yusik, who was a son or descendant of Aghbianos 03Buz5    29:4 | patriarch of Caesarea became enraged. A synodical council of bishops took 03Buz5    29:4 | without the patriarch. They wrote a letter expressing great anger 03Buz5    29:5 | They also wrote a letter to king Pap dissolving 03Buz5    30:2 | is lost. The blood of a just man, unjustly condemned, was 03Buz5    30:4 | against the enemies or aim a spear at anyone 03Buz5    31:9 | the entire country of Armenia, a wife he had taken with 03Buz5    31:15 | especially radiant and there was a multitude of blessed canonical clerics 03Buz5    31:23 | left two clerics in service, a priest and a deacon, while 03Buz5    31:23 | in service, a priest and a deacon, while placing in service 03Buz5    32:8 | king Pap was encamped at a place called Xu in a 03Buz5    32:8 | a place called Xu in a plain of Bagrewand district, while 03Buz5    32:8 | So, the Byzantine generals prepared a grand banquet and invited the 03Buz5    32:8 | was the rule in calling a king to a banquet. They 03Buz5    32:8 | in calling a king to a banquet. They organized and prepared 03Buz5    32:14 | held in his left hand a golden drinking goblet, while his 03Buz5    32:19 | say anything about it. Not a thing 03Buz5    34:1 | Armenia, the Byzantine emperor made a certain Varazdat the king. He 03Buz5    34:3 | He was a youth, full of bravery, with 03Buz5    34:3 | of bravery, with powerful hands, a brave heart, but light-minded 03Buz5    34:3 | heart, but light-minded, with a child’s capricious cunning 03Buz5    34:7 | one in every district with a city, and two where there 03Buz5    35:1 | saw that king Varazdat was a gullible youth, unable to differentiate 03Buz5    35:4 | true of Mushegh, who is a wicked and duplicitous man 03Buz5    35:8 | and caused him to have a grudge against king Pap until 03Buz5    35:9 | with cities and make it a military base inhabited by Byzantine 03Buz5    35:13 | is happening, he will conduct a great war. No one can 03Buz5    35:15 | Varazdat of Armenia commanded that a great dinner be readied, and 03Buz5    35:17 | invitees very merry, gave them a lot of wine to drink 03Buz5    35:24 | while I was mounted on a horse 03Buz5    36:2 | countless battles and never received a wound. No arrow has ever 03Buz5    36:3 | it on the roof of a tower, saying: “Because he was 03Buz5    36:3 | tower, saying: “Because he was a brave man, the arhlezk will 03Buz5    37:3 | azg of the Mamikonean tohm a man named Vache, of the 03Buz5    37:7 | them. They did not let a single Iranian soldier survive, including 03Buz5    37:12 | the aspects of offspring of a giant 03Buz5    37:13 | hundred xrasax distance, carrying such a fantastically enormous man to the 03Buz5    37:16 | sparapet of Armenia, Manuel, sent a letter to king Varazdat, saying 03Buz5    37:18 | not even an Arsacid, but a bastard. Therefore, you do not 03Buz5    37:19 | land of Chenk. Because of a quarrel among brothers, to avoid 03Buz5    37:21 | King Varazdat sent a reply to general Manuel, saying 03Buz5    37:24 | severe, the two antagonists made a date to confront each other 03Buz5    37:29 | iron armor, personally strong, on a steady horse covered with horse 03Buz5    37:29 | armor. Varazdat regarded him as a tall inaccessible mountain 03Buz5    37:31 | King Varazdat was a young man and uninformed about 03Buz5    37:33 | as he chased him over a distance of four asparez 03Buz5    37:37 | no more fighting after that. A few dead men lay across 03Buz5    37:38 | going after the fugitives, Hamazaspean, a sepuh of the Mamikonean tohm 03Buz5    37:41 | the Iranians hanged her from a lofty tower over a cave 03Buz5    37:41 | from a lofty tower over a cave. They killed her on 03Buz5    37:43 | look after me. Command that a steed be brought so that 03Buz5    37:49 | After this a certain Danun, the gumapet of 03Buz5    37:56 | He had others destroyed in a similar fashion 03Buz5    38:0 | the duplicity of Meruzhan Arcruni, a rebellion broke out followed by 03Buz5    38:5 | Iranian king had Suren take a crown, a robe, and the 03Buz5    38:5 | had Suren take a crown, a robe, and the emblem of 03Buz5    38:6 | also sent to sparapet Manuel a royal robe, a sable, a 03Buz5    38:6 | sparapet Manuel a royal robe, a sable, a patiw for the 03Buz5    38:6 | a royal robe, a sable, a patiw for the head with 03Buz5    38:6 | patiw for the head with a gold and silver gargmanak and 03Buz5    38:6 | by law only kings have; a tent of red leather and 03Buz5    38:15 | for he honored him as a brother or a son, he 03Buz5    38:15 | him as a brother or a son, he became very jealous 03Buz5    38:20 | the general of Armenia organized a brigade and assembled many troops 03Buz5    38:21 | banak in unconcerned peace without a suspicion of duplicity, since in 03Buz5    38:22 | marzpan Suren his life as a pargew and let him go 03Buz5    38:22 | and let him go on a horse 03Buz5    40:1 | Then a certain Varaz, general of the 03Buz5    40:3 | the principal, Varaz. He took a huge amount of loot, the 03Buz5    41:2 | He arrived and took a part of the country of 03Buz5    41:3 | booty. He did not spare a single one of them 03Buz5    42:2 | coming together and encamping without a care. General Manuel directed them 03Buz5    43:4 | country of Armenia. He left a banak in the Korchek district 03Buz5    43:16 | consulted did not give him a favorable reading 03Buz5    43:18 | the sparapet Manuel had designated a time for the entire brigade 03Buz5    43:19 | Then a news-bearer came to Armenia’s 03Buz5    43:19 | is coming against you with a large brigade 03Buz5    43:20 | in that village, to make a covenant and beseech God, to 03Buz5    43:20 | judge, to assist them with a visitation 03Buz5    43:21 | Vagharshak and their women to a stronghold on the great mountain 03Buz5    43:23 | He was a small boy. In the fashion 03Buz5    43:23 | Artawazd’s head was shaven with a long braid left free 03Buz5    43:28 | he fell upon them, resembling a lion or a wild boar 03Buz5    43:28 | them, resembling a lion or a wild boar. Observing those men 03Buz5    43:31 | has tricked us? I recognize a sign of him from the 03Buz5    43:31 | when he is mounted on a horse, his thighs do not 03Buz5    43:37 | Sparapet Manuel was put on a horse by his grooms, and 03Buz5    43:38 | and killed them, not allowing a single one to live 03Buz5    43:39 | river. He struck and killed a countless multitude of armed men 03Buz5    43:40 | ridiculed him. For he saw a handsome, robust, beardless youth. With 03Buz5    43:42 | them. And Artawazd returned with a great renown and much loot 03Buz5    43:44 | Maghxaz was also killed as a result of his horse, for 03Buz5    43:47 | head, which was impaled on a long spike, they realized that 03Buz5    44:3 | He also held a wedding for Arshak’s brother Vagharshak 03Buz5    44:6 | of Armenia, became sick with a fatal illness. He called his 03Buz5    44:9 | Leave a name for bravery on earth 03Buz5    44:11 | After this Manuel wrote a hrovartak to the Byzantine emperor 03Buz5    44:12 | area - even the size of a dram - which had not been 03Buz5    44:15 | Though I deported myself boldly, a bad death comes to me 03Buz5    44:16 | contrary to the rule, as a pagan 03Buz5    44:17 | who have faith in resurrection, a second life, and the coming 03Buz5    44:20 | He regarded it a bitter sin to lament or 03Buz5    44:26 | well-formed constructive Manuel as a father because of his goodness 03Buz6    1:0 | into two parts, they set a boundary between them; how other 03Buz6    1:1 | the Armenian naxarars went in a body to the king of 03Buz6    1:2 | Iranian king consented to find a candidate from the same Arsacid 03Buz6    1:3 | He found a youth named Xosrov, from that 03Buz6    1:3 | him the nuncio Zik as a tutor. They arrived in the 03Buz6    1:7 | They thought it would be a good thing first to divide 03Buz6    1:11 | here and there and only a small part of the lands 03Buz6    2:1 | Zawen was a descendant of the celebrated bishop 03Buz6    2:1 | from Manazkert village. He was a man with a wicked, severe 03Buz6    2:1 | He was a man with a wicked, severe and jealous nature 03Buz6    2:3 | the priests did not wear a long robe descending to the 03Buz6    2:3 | clerics, rather, they started wearing a tunic that went only to 03Buz6    2:4 | ribbons, and strutted about in a way that was unbecoming. The 03Buz6    2:5 | adorned with ribbons and embroidery, a sable, an ermine, and wolf 03Buz6    3:2 | He was a Christian man, but in no 03Buz6    4:1 | the death of bishop Shahak, a certain Aspurak, a descendant of 03Buz6    4:1 | bishop Shahak, a certain Aspurak, a descendant of bishop Aghbianos, became 03Buz6    5:1 | the archbishop Nerses, had been a manager in his house 03Buz6    6:1 | Bishop Pawstos had a brother, a marvelous, religious cenobite 03Buz6    6:1 | Bishop Pawstos had a brother, a marvelous, religious cenobite of the 03Buz6    6:3 | he wandered the wildernesses as a vegetarian in the mountains, wearing 03Buz6    6:4 | of the patriarch Nerses, at a place called Amok. Every year 03Buz6    7:1 | bishop of Basen, who was a venerable and useful old man 03Buz6    7:3 | Artit had been a student of the great Daniel 03Buz6    8:1 | There was also a bishop Yohan, son of the 03Buz6    8:1 | is proper to style him a bishop 03Buz6    8:2 | He was a hypocritical man who passed himself 03Buz6    8:2 | who passed himself off as a faster and wearer of sack 03Buz6    8:4 | he happened to be travelling a certain road seated on a 03Buz6    8:4 | a certain road seated on a pack animal. He encountered an 03Buz6    8:4 | unknown lay youth mounted on a horse, sword at his waist 03Buz6    8:4 | in his hair, and thrown a cape over his shoulders 03Buz6    8:10 | note: “I am ordaining you a priest.” The man replied 03Buz6    8:11 | I am a brigand, murderer, malefactor and libertine 03Buz6    8:13 | hand on, him making him a priest, ordered him to rise 03Buz6    8:13 | his cloak, and put on a priest’s frock 03Buz6    8:16 | my gift, for making you a priest 03Buz6    8:18 | of this happened because of a horse 03Buz6    8:21 | replied: “Are you crazy, has a dew possessed you 03Buz6    8:22 | and pray, for I am a priest 03Buz6    8:24 | her husband: “When you were a child you were not baptized 03Buz6    8:25 | to her: “I was in a state of shock and did 03Buz6    8:25 | tell him. He made me a priest and took my horse 03Buz6    8:27 | Why did you make me a priest?’ 03Buz6    8:29 | Yohan said to him: “Bring a pitcher of water 03Buz6    9:2 | A man in the vineyard cried 03Buz6    9:5 | A sign from God took place 03Buz6    9:8 | anyone, to say nothing of a bishop 03Buz6    9:9 | you know that I am a sinful and unworthy man and 03Buz6    10:1 | would entertain them by being a buffoon for them. Through this 03Buz6    10:2 | of the kings and imitate a camel, making a camel’s bleating 03Buz6    10:2 | and imitate a camel, making a camel’s bleating sound 03Buz6    10:3 | he would exclaim: “I am a camel, a camel, and I 03Buz6    10:3 | exclaim: “I am a camel, a camel, and I will bear 03Buz6    10:5 | villages and fields for imitating a camel, and all the days 03Buz6    11:1 | There was a bishop of Tayk named Kirakos 03Buz6    12:1 | of the district of Vanand, a blessed, modest man worthy of 03Buz6    12:1 | and led his people in a Christian manner as God wanted 03Buz6    14:1 | land of Armenia. He was a prominent, renowned, and very virtuous 03Buz6    15:1 | the Armenian bishops was Aspurak, a blessed and devout person, pious 03Buz6    16:1 | of Taron and had been a student of the great Daniel 03Buz6    16:2 | did not deserve them. Resembling a flock of birds, they dwelled 03Buz6    16:7 | error, leading many people to a knowledge of Life and to 04Yegh1    1:3 | accumulated venom filled him like a quiver with poisonous arrows 04Yegh1    1:6 | In his great folly, like a ferocious wild beast he attacked 04Yegh1    1:7 | but he sent to him a man called Anatolius, who was 04Yegh1    1:10 | one throws more wood onto a blazing fire 04Yegh1    1:11 | From being a little suspicious he became thoroughly 04Yegh1    1:11 | and some he put to a terrible death 04Yegh1    1:13 | many regions he summoned to a council his perverse ministers, who 04Yegh1    1:13 | links, burning and heated like a furnace to consume the community 04Yegh1    1:14 | captive in their bodies like a living man in a tomb 04Yegh1    1:14 | like a living man in a tomb; on them the ray 04Yegh1    1:17 | the prophet’s saying concerning them: “ A man in his hunger will 04Yegh1    1:19 | body to the dust like a foul, discarded corpse 04Yegh1    1:22 | Raise an army and gather a force; march to the land 04Yegh1    1:23 | and enclose them all in a distant foreign land the plans 04Yegh1    2:26 | And this is a copy of the edict 04Yegh1    2:32 | A force of nobility and lesser 04Yegh1    2:44 | and built there for himself a city to dwell in, beginning 04Yegh1    2:46 | He gave a further command that all the 04Yegh2    1:1 | in their physical nature. Such a man is shaken by every 04Yegh2    1:1 | at every contingency; he is a dreamer in his lifetime, and 04Yegh2    1:5 | A blind man is deprived of 04Yegh2    1:5 | ignorant man is deprived of a perfect life 04Yegh2    1:8 | poor in his mind, such a man is more pitiable than 04Yegh2    1:9 | If a king does not have wisdom 04Yegh2    1:10 | much the more so in a spiritual sense 04Yegh2    1:11 | Just as it is for a man, so it is for 04Yegh2    1:12 | A king has to give account 04Yegh2    1:14 | neither being silent in giving a truthful account of events 04Yegh2    1:16 | He made a review of all doctrines, and 04Yegh2    1:24 | he flashed and writhed like a poisonous snake, now he stretched 04Yegh2    1:24 | stretched himself and roared like a furious lion. He rolled, twisted 04Yegh2    2:32 | his secret plans. He gave a public command: “Let every nation 04Yegh2    2:33 | These words a herald proclaimed in the great 04Yegh2    2:34 | of his reign, he gathered a force infinite in multitude and 04Yegh2    2:48 | he deceitfully left alone for a while, throwing the blame for 04Yegh2    2:49 | Twelve days later he commanded a banquet to be given, more 04Yegh2    2:50 | take their seats, he granted a place at the table to 04Yegh2    2:50 | he conversed with them in a friendly and gentle way in 04Yegh2    3:55 | these peoples were sent to a distant land to wage war 04Yegh2    3:58 | encouraged their companions; and like a tower of light they practiced 04Yegh2    3:59 | that it was better for a man to suffer even death 04Yegh2    3:59 | death than to deny such a religion 04Yegh2    3:61 | was in cruel subjection to a murderous tyrant who exceeded the 04Yegh2    3:64 | trusted servants, called Denshapuh, on a mission to Armenia. He came 04Yegh2    3:64 | great king’s greetings, and made a census of the whole land 04Yegh2    3:71 | the fifth. The governor (hazarapet) A of the country had been 04Yegh2    3:71 | country had been regarded as a father and overseer by the 04Yegh2    3:71 | and in his place brought a Persian to the country. In 04Yegh2    3:71 | In addition, he also brought a chief-magus as judge of 04Yegh2    3:73 | suitable to take up to a hundred dahekan they took twice 04Yegh2    4:76 | and chief-magi to write a letter in keeping with their 04Yegh2    4:77 | And this is a copy of the letter 04Yegh2    4:80 | great god Zrvan sacrificed for a thousand years and note: ’Perhaps 04Yegh2    4:80 | note: ’Perhaps I shall have a son, Ormizd by name, who 04Yegh2    4:87 | gave him his rule for a thousand years 04Yegh2    4:91 | that has been mixed with a creation of the evil one’s 04Yegh2    4:93 | Because of the eating of a single fig from the tree 04Yegh2    4:96 | truth he was son to a certain Banturak by an illicit 04Yegh2    5:101 | ’ they say, ’is not a sin,’ yet they themselves 04Yegh2    5:101 | wish even to look at a woman. ’It is a great 04Yegh2    5:101 | at a woman. ’It is a great sin,’ they say 04Yegh2    5:106 | yourselves then not have made a judgment concerning such unworthy doctrines 04Yegh2    5:109 | province of Ayrarat and composed a reply to the letter 04Yegh2    6:135 | not have its surety in a man, to be spread through 04Yegh2    6:135 | spread through the world by a protector but has its confirmation 04Yegh2    6:136 | infallible charter and not through a mediator—for God is one 04Yegh2    6:138 | He is not shaped into a material appearance nor is he 04Yegh2    6:140 | when he wished he made a beginning of existence for his 04Yegh2    6:142 | Just as now, before a man has done anything good 04Yegh2    6:142 | the uncreated beings, not as a confused jumble, but the forms 04Yegh2    6:142 | was going to be in a form 04Yegh2    6:143 | And because he is a creative power, his benevolence was 04Yegh2    6:144 | stone tablets and gave us a book containing the laws of 04Yegh2    6:147 | especially in the sons of a single father: there is one 04Yegh2    6:148 | Likewise, a single man can be seen 04Yegh2    6:149 | your saying that because of a single fig God created death 04Yegh2    6:149 | single fig God created death, a piece of parchment is even 04Yegh2    6:149 | is even less significant than a fig: if the king’s order 04Yegh2    7:153 | that God was born from a woman, it was not right 04Yegh2    7:153 | and Ormizd were born from a father and not from a 04Yegh2    7:153 | a father and not from a mother—to which if you 04Yegh2    7:154 | god Mihr is born from a woman, as if anyone would 04Yegh2    7:155 | if you set aside for a while the arrogance of your 04Yegh2    7:155 | your authority and enter into a debate in a friendly way 04Yegh2    7:155 | enter into a debate in a friendly way, I know that 04Yegh2    7:155 | despite everything else you are a very wise man and did 04Yegh2    7:157 | is compassionate to it like a father 04Yegh2    7:170 | Here is a clear explanation, easily comprehensible in 04Yegh2    7:174 | and orders their mixtures with a view to the nature of 04Yegh2    8:176 | god Mihr was born from a mortal mother and is king 04Yegh2    8:176 | as divine offspring and is a partner of the seven noble 04Yegh2    8:182 | If I become a pupil of your lack of 04Yegh2    8:182 | the very voice of God: “ A servant, he says, who does 04Yegh2    8:185 | world, with treacherous words and a false promise, he proffered an 04Yegh2    8:185 | newly created man, as to a child, turning his mind upwards 04Yegh2    8:190 | not that the judges of a good God are beneficent and 04Yegh2    8:195 | and suppose him to be a deceiver; you corrupt and dishonor 04Yegh2    8:199 | Virgin—truly and not in a shadowy appearance 04Yegh2    9:203 | united it to his divinity — a unity and not a duality 04Yegh2    9:203 | divinity —a unity and not a duality. Consequently, we acknowledge the 04Yegh2    9:204 | swaddling clothes, was placed in a manger, brought the magi from 04Yegh2    9:208 | He promised to come a second time with fearsome power 04Yegh2    9:208 | the whole world, to make a just judgment between the just 04Yegh2    9:217 | our faith is not with a man that we may be 04Yegh2    9:218 | greatest to the smallest. With a solemn oath they bore witness 04Yegh2    10:246 | him (the shah) to send a man to meet them, to 04Yegh2    10:247 | cease provoking and stirring up a winter snowstorm 04Yegh2    10:248 | bottommost depths he rose in a mass of foam, thundering like 04Yegh2    10:248 | mass of foam, thundering like a dragon and roaring like a 04Yegh2    10:248 | a dragon and roaring like a wild beast, shaking his whole 04Yegh2    10:249 | He raised his voice in a bellow and note: “I have 04Yegh2    11:262 | grand or ignoble, nowhere is a church created by them to 04Yegh2    11:263 | But it is a gift of grace from the 04Yegh2    11:264 | foundations have been placed on a firm rock; powers below cannot 04Yegh2    11:268 | vapor like thick smoke from a heated furnace 04Yegh2    11:272 | by wild beasts and die a merciless death 04Yegh2    12:279 | he had threatened, he advised a few of them, though not 04Yegh2    12:279 | them, though not all, of a means whereby they might save 04Yegh2    12:279 | save themselves from tribulation for a while 04Yegh2    12:280 | While they were gathering a force, which would banish them 04Yegh2    12:280 | which would banish them to a foreign exile of no return 04Yegh2    12:280 | at that very time arrived a bearer of bad news from 04Yegh2    12:280 | Kushans, to the effect that a detachment had separated from the 04Yegh2    12:281 | This proved a great help to them from 04Yegh2    12:292 | Having done this, he gathered a large force of cavalry to 04Yegh2    12:292 | to escort them, and not a few magi; more than seven 04Yegh2    12:292 | and over them he appointed a certain great prince as chief 04Yegh2    12:298 | For they had received a general command from the court 04Yegh2    12:299 | In a mad onslaught they hastened to 04Yegh2    12:300 | A large force was gathered, and 04Yegh2    12:300 | Satan appeared among them like a general, ceaselessly exhorting them all 04Yegh2    13:301 | He fixed a time, six months, and they 04Yegh2    13:309 | shall not be kneaded without a veil. Excrement and dung shall 04Yegh2    13:312 | that we have said for a period of time up to 04Yegh2    13:312 | up to the completion of a year; and to everything else 04Yegh3    1:1 | afflictions. But we shall give a summary so that we may 04Yegh3    1:1 | you listen, may shed not a few tears over the misfortune 04Yegh3    1:12 | You were a temple of the Holy Spirit 04Yegh3    1:18 | up of your own accord a heavy burden; freed from servitude 04Yegh3    1:22 | For if a man had saved you from 04Yegh3    1:22 | me be God. I am a jealous God. I shall punish 04Yegh3    2:26 | true faith, they spared us a little; but now because of 04Yegh3    2:27 | You will have to give a reckoning before God’s fearful tribunal 04Yegh3    2:31 | all the troops and sent a messenger by horse in haste 04Yegh3    2:35 | of God’s ordinance. Let not a father spare his son, nor 04Yegh3    2:35 | father spare his son, nor a son respect his father’s dignity 04Yegh3    2:36 | Let a wife strive with her husband 04Yegh3    2:36 | strive with her husband, and a servant turn against his master 04Yegh3    2:38 | armed and helmeted, girt with a sword and shield in hand 04Yegh3    2:41 | and the magi arrived with a great force in order to 04Yegh3    2:41 | doors of the church on a Sunday. He intended to put 04Yegh3    2:43 | did he give way for a moment to the impious ruler 04Yegh3    2:43 | impious ruler, but he brought a great tumult on the army 04Yegh3    2:45 | from all parts of Armenia a crowd of men and women 04Yegh3    2:50 | that he should abandon such a project as this. For even 04Yegh3    3:53 | the land. So, he gave a strict order that Christianity should 04Yegh3    3:53 | be silenced and brought to a halt 04Yegh3    3:60 | Persia, they made every house a church and practiced their religion 04Yegh3    3:60 | everywhere. Each one considered himself a shrine, and they reckoned bodily 04Yegh3    3:68 | they would not have allowed a single one of us to 04Yegh3    3:70 | it is one thing what a man hears and another what 04Yegh3    4:76 | For this land is a frontier. Perhaps when they work 04Yegh3    4:79 | seem good to you. Be a little patient and keep your 04Yegh3    4:79 | them, until I can gather a force to bring support. Then 04Yegh3    4:83 | Now send a letter to the court that 04Yegh3    4:88 | had brought from the treasury a mass of wealth and he 04Yegh3    4:93 | union came and joined them, a force of many troops 04Yegh3    5:105 | they all burst into such a raging fury that the bowels 04Yegh3    6:132 | and virtuous task of heroism, a divine grace appeared over them 04Yegh3    6:138 | do this willingly, we have a command to build fire-temples 04Yegh3    6:140 | in bravery. But there was a gathering of people of the 04Yegh3    6:141 | them (the Persians) deceitfully for a while, so that they might 04Yegh3    6:141 | God, they held council, seeking a way out of the problem 04Yegh3    6:143 | This is a copy of the letter which 04Yegh3    6:145 | vast dominion they called Armenia a great and beloved territory 04Yegh3    6:148 | us, we will have gained a second life and avoided death 04Yegh3    6:149 | But if you delay even a little, the heat of their 04Yegh3    7:151 | whole Senate, anxious to find a peaceable solution to the matter 04Yegh3    7:151 | suddenly befell him. This put a serious obstruction in the way 04Yegh3    7:154 | the Persian king and contracted a firm pact with him that 04Yegh3    7:156 | for God to work through a few the business of many 04Yegh3    7:157 | Although they did not have a king as leader nor any 04Yegh3    7:175 | sent to Albania under Vardan, a small force and not numerous 04Yegh3    8:178 | was advancing on him with a small number of troops, he 04Yegh3    8:187 | raised his eyes, roared like a lion, and attacked wildly, striking 04Yegh3    8:192 | the Armenian troops, having won a great victory, turned to plunder 04Yegh3    8:193 | Persians held in Albania. After a fierce struggle they set fire 04Yegh3    8:197 | all these brave exploits not a single one of them fell 04Yegh3    8:197 | blessed man who died like a hero in the great battle 04Yegh3    8:198 | understanding with them and make a pact that the alliance would 04Yegh3    8:200 | not hesitate to enter into a pact with an oath in 04Yegh3    8:200 | own religion; they also took a Christian oath to keep a 04Yegh3    8:200 | a Christian oath to keep a firm alliance with them 04Yegh3    9:201 | peacefully settled in that spot, a bearer of sad news arrived 04Yegh3    9:205 | Of those with him, a few have fled to their 04Yegh3    9:206 | all speed to Armenia, bearing a vast booty and immeasurable wealth 04Yegh3    9:213 | A few of the group of 04Yegh3    9:215 | inflict on the apostate. Finally, a synod of holy bishops and 04Yegh3    9:215 | women to go barefoot without a mount, and many children to 04Yegh3    9:220 | they sent him off as a messenger to present their case 04Yegh3    9:222 | body may be separated for a while, as can be seen 04Yegh3    9:222 | for those who have entered a covenant in love of God 04Yegh3    10:230 | consider it equal and on a par with our Mazdean religion 04Yegh3    10:234 | You never recalled a single one of these facts 04Yegh3    10:236 | While we were on a distant campaign, before we had 04Yegh3    10:236 | brought any military operation to a successful conclusion, you raised war 04Yegh3    10:239 | But a few of them, humoring him 04Yegh3    10:248 | and spoke with them in a friendly way according to his 04Yegh3    11:252 | this, he requested from them a testimony of his sincerity for 04Yegh3    11:252 | an oath he subscribed to a covenant in their presence, with 04Yegh3    11:261 | truth from falsehood; nor from a turbulent mind does there come 04Yegh3    11:274 | nearby hissing and crawling like a snake 04Yegh4    1:4 | which previously were part of a man’s undefiled body, are severed 04Yegh4    1:5 | this is the case for a single person, how much more 04Yegh4    1:5 | how much more so for a whole nation 04Yegh4    1:6 | of in order, though without a joyful mind 04Yegh4    1:13 | if only he could find a way to destroy the unity 04Yegh4    1:21 | adopted devil-worship. He became a vessel of evil, and Satan 04Yegh4    1:22 | He took Satan as a shield, put him on as 04Yegh4    1:22 | and became as it were a soldier fulfilling his will 04Yegh4    1:24 | stealthily insinuated himself, and like a snake entered the fortified places 04Yegh4    1:24 | entered the fortified places. Opening a breach, he snatched away and 04Yegh4    2:35 | A lesser noble of the Amatunik 04Yegh4    2:37 | deeds notably through false priests, a priest called Zangak, a priest 04Yegh4    2:37 | priests, a priest called Zangak, a priest called Peter, a deacon 04Yegh4    2:37 | Zangak, a priest called Peter, a deacon called Sahak, and a 04Yegh4    2:37 | a deacon called Sahak, and a deacon called Mushi. These he 04Yegh4    2:39 | who had stumbled and made a force of many soldiers. He 04Yegh4    2:41 | them; it was addressed to a man called Vasak, one of 04Yegh4    2:50 | Huns with whom they had a treaty 04Yegh4    3:55 | distributing gifts to others in a friendly way 04Yegh4    3:60 | covenant of virtue. He wrote a report about them to the 04Yegh5    1:0 | CHAPTER FIVE - For a Second Time the Armenians Oppose 04Yegh5    1:2 | the love of God for a weapon shrank at nothing in 04Yegh5    1:6 | his soldiers, for he had a firm hold on the royal 04Yegh5    1:10 | the plain of Artaz for a muster of sixty-six thousand 04Yegh5    1:12 | be in no way for a material cause but for spiritual 04Yegh5    1:15 | fought at the command of a temporal king 04Yegh5    1:16 | Whoever fled was regarded as a coward in the land and 04Yegh5    1:16 | in the land and suffered a merciless death. But he who 04Yegh5    1:16 | he who advanced bravely acquired a reputation for valor and received 04Yegh5    1:19 | these deeds of valor for a mortal commander, how much more 04Yegh5    1:20 | if I were to attain a very advanced age, yet we 04Yegh5    1:22 | to the fearsome sword of a mortal man; for if the 04Yegh5    1:22 | lives in this battle with a holy death, let us accept 04Yegh5    2:29 | we put on Christianity like a garment, now realizes that as 04Yegh5    2:33 | My valiant men, this is a great thing that God has 04Yegh5    2:38 | the sword, wishing to inflict a bitter death on us, and 04Yegh5    2:43 | Fear is a sign of doubt. Long ago 04Yegh5    2:45 | who needed clothes; he gave a horse to the one who 04Yegh5    2:45 | to the one who lacked a horse 04Yegh5    3:52 | A few days later the Persian 04Yegh5    3:53 | his camp, dug ditches, erected a rampart, surrounded it with a 04Yegh5    3:53 | a rampart, surrounded it with a wooden palisade, and vigilantly fortified 04Yegh5    3:53 | and vigilantly fortified it like a city 04Yegh5    3:54 | Detaching a large force from his army 04Yegh5    3:55 | chose from the whole army a junior noble of the Amatuni 04Yegh5    3:55 | Amatuni family, Arandzar by name, a man full of wisdom and 04Yegh5    3:57 | sound, so that day was a festival of great rejoicing for 04Yegh5    3:65 | Therefore, God accepted him as a model, for he saw in 04Yegh5    3:65 | for he saw in him a type of the invisible coming 04Yegh5    3:67 | deliverance from oppression he became a mediator between heaven and earth 04Yegh5    3:69 | in sand. Therefore, God bestowed a great name on him and 04Yegh5    3:75 | fate, for no longer is a chariot sent from heaven for 04Yegh5    4:77 | great mountain of flesh with a stone, quite unfearful of the 04Yegh5    4:81 | The sea and rivers made a path before them, contrary to 04Yegh5    4:82 | walls of the city at a mere sound collapsed and were 04Yegh5    4:88 | even higher and gave him a name above all names, that 04Yegh5    4:91 | lords, after rising to such a height let us not fall 04Yegh5    4:91 | earth, but let us make a firm stand here on high 04Yegh5    4:98 | worship and honor is but a part of its substance. So 04Yegh5    5:101 | who took the form of a man, but they offer worship 04Yegh5    5:107 | you would leave them in a safe place. But today bishops 04Yegh5    5:110 | shedding of their blood was a cause of boasting for those 04Yegh5    5:112 | that night; he ended with a blessing, saying “Amen 04Yegh5    5:113 | Liturgy. They also put up a font, and throughout the night 04Yegh5    5:117 | of bravery. Choose death over a cowardly life 04Yegh5    5:124 | he strengthened the center like a powerful tower or an impregnable 04Yegh5    6:133 | wild animals. Their melee caused a roar like the thundering in 04Yegh5    6:138 | Forming a solid group, the whole host 04Yegh5    6:139 | the two sides collided with a crash, many wounded fell to 04Yegh5    6:143 | Therefore, raising a shout, he urged on the 04Yegh5    6:145 | on one of them in a high watchtower as if in 04Yegh5    6:145 | high watchtower as if in a fortified city. At the sound 04Yegh5    6:148 | be distinguished, and there was a frightful press of those who 04Yegh5    8:173 | to conceal them, as such a great battle could not be 04Yegh6    1:1 | reached the fortress in which a detachment of the Armenian army 04Yegh6    1:2 | they should come down under a pact without (the Persians) engaging 04Yegh6    1:12 | were wisely seeking to be a means for the prosperity of 04Yegh6    1:13 | Therefore, they addressed a complaint to the court and 04Yegh6    1:14 | guard because they had addressed a complaint to the court. The 04Yegh6    1:20 | Without a murmur they endured their food 04Yegh6    1:23 | Every man was a church for himself, was himself 04Yegh6    1:23 | church for himself, was himself a priest. Each one’s body was 04Yegh6    1:23 | priest. Each one’s body was a holy altar, and their souls 04Yegh6    2:35 | yet because of their oaths a priest, whose name was Arshen 04Yegh6    2:36 | covenant, hoping he might soften a little from his terrible cruelty 04Yegh6    2:40 | the inhabitants mercilessly and made a bloody carnage. The survivors they 04Yegh6    2:42 | There they found a large detachment of royal troops 04Yegh6    2:44 | rushed to attack, and winning a decisive victory, broke the strength 04Yegh6    2:49 | with Armenia and confirmed with a solemn oath 04Yegh6    3:52 | agreement, later the Huns gathered a numerous force and attacked the 04Yegh6    3:54 | to Persia, giving the court a full and accurate account in 04Yegh6    3:59 | Pass: only with difficulty over a long time had they been 04Yegh6    3:63 | although the latter had destroyed a fire-temple and had greatly 04Yegh6    3:64 | Furthermore, a pious priest from the house 04Yegh6    3:64 | Mushe by name, who was a prelate in the land of 04Yegh6    3:64 | the Artsrunik, had also destroyed a house of fire and inflicted 04Yegh6    3:75 | of the royal cavalry for a time 04Yegh6    4:78 | any people have gone to a distant land,” said the governor 04Yegh6    4:86 | Therefore, they sent a message to the governor of 04Yegh6    4:92 | his winter palace, he ordered a tribunal to be held to 04Yegh6    4:95 | one letter to Albania, likewise a letter to Aḷdznik, and a 04Yegh6    4:95 | a letter to Aḷdznik, and a message to the Greek emperor 04Yegh6    4:95 | to the Greek emperor, and a letter to the great general 04Yegh6    4:99 | Furthermore, a noble called Atom from the 04Yegh6    5:110 | wrong reasons and enter into a false covenant with their friends 04Yegh6    5:112 | For while he was nominally a Christian, he thought he could 04Yegh6    5:116 | he lost it all in a single year 04Yegh6    6:127 | nobles to be invited to a banquet 04Yegh6    6:130 | up in his finery with a numerous entourage, they began to 04Yegh6    6:130 | transitory—and even that in a few days you will lose 04Yegh6    6:134 | the title for himself as a reward at court 04Yegh6    6:138 | him in the garb of a condemned man 04Yegh6    6:139 | hand and foot, set like a woman on a mare, led 04Yegh6    6:139 | set like a woman on a mare, led off, and delivered 04Yegh6    7:164 | tomb, for he died like a dog and was thrown out 04Yegh7    1:4 | A certain Hun of royal descent 04Yegh7    1:7 | the suspicion he might be a spy enter his heart 04Yegh7    1:8 | For he had learned a little earlier, and Bel as 04Yegh7    1:10 | hard that, overcoming them with a small number of troops, he 04Yegh7    1:11 | ignominy, he moderated his pride a little and realized that all 04Yegh7    1:17 | He gave a command with regard to the 04Yegh7    1:21 | Furthermore—what they consider a great glory in their erring 04Yegh7    1:22 | magism. But beyond these is a further sixth, which they call 04Yegh7    1:25 | them and cast them into a damp and gloomy dungeon 04Yegh7    2:26 | that two barley loaves and a jar and one-half of 04Yegh7    2:29 | prayers they would rest for a while in joyful gratitude, with 04Yegh7    2:32 | It is a long time that the guarding 04Yegh7    2:32 | remember any prisoner living for a month in this dungeon 04Yegh7    2:33 | you: If you have received a command for their death and 04Yegh7    2:38 | them, it is impossible for a mere man to be clothed 04Yegh7    2:42 | he had not seen in a confused way, but the illumination 04Yegh7    2:45 | and take the prisoners to a really dry upper-room and 04Yegh7    2:47 | he said, “to move to a dry upper-room. Arise quickly 04Yegh7    2:48 | Joseph began to speak in a gentle way to the executioner 04Yegh7    2:50 | even consider it to be a perfect favor so that we 04Yegh7    3:55 | of mankind and put on a passing body, accomplished the whole 04Yegh7    3:55 | died and was placed in a tomb, rose by his divine 04Yegh7    3:58 | prison, he looked in through a crack and saw a vision 04Yegh7    3:58 | through a crack and saw a vision similar to the previous 04Yegh7    3:58 | except that they were in a peaceful sleep 04Yegh7    3:74 | building was filled with light. A luminous staircase appeared to him 04Yegh7    3:75 | groups he saw: one was a thousand, another thirty-six, another 04Yegh7    4:77 | these tokens of honor as a pledge 04Yegh7    4:86 | wonders are revealed has received a large portion of your inexhaustible 04Yegh7    4:90 | such fashion they prayed for a long time, shedding abundant and 04Yegh7    4:94 | He set up a font in his own house 04Yegh7    4:95 | In a loud voice he cried out 04Yegh7    4:95 | this Baptism be for me a washing away of my sins 04Yegh7    4:95 | away of my sins and a new rebirth in the Holy 04Yegh7    4:96 | He also placed before them a table of food for the 04Yegh7    4:96 | for the body, offered them a cup of consolation, and joined 04Yegh7    4:98 | same city, and lay on a great feast 04Yegh7    5:101 | the table the saints recalled a priest, who had been in 04Yegh7    5:104 | It was already a great thing for me to 04Yegh7    5:113 | had said this, he received a corroborating reply from him the 04Yegh7    5:116 | was the first to become a herald to those who were 04Yegh7    5:116 | Christ also make me today a servant to your glorious company 04Yegh7    5:118 | Because he came to seek a single lost sheep, therefore they 04Yegh7    5:120 | wish that I too receive a portion with the blessed ones 04Yegh7    6:128 | they were unable to reach a decision in time, they unanimously 04Yegh7    6:137 | be involved because he was a very close friend of that 04Yegh7    6:138 | removed from the city to a distance of twelve Persian leagues 04Yegh7    6:146 | perverted to their religion, but a man who was hamakden famous 04Yegh7    6:147 | If we enter into a debate with him, as he 04Yegh7    6:150 | It was only a minor disgrace for us in 04Yegh7    7:152 | in affairs of state. Bring a public suit against him and 04Yegh7    7:152 | Makuran. There cast him into a dungeon where he may suffer 04Yegh7    7:152 | dungeon where he may suffer a miserable death 04Yegh7    7:153 | And bring a rapid end to life in 04Yegh7    7:154 | For if they have made a disciple of the learned chief 04Yegh7    7:158 | to magism, as you were a teacher thereof for many 04Yegh7    7:159 | considered in my eyes as a blood brother but today as 04Yegh7    7:159 | blood brother but today as a total enemy, do not pity 04Yegh7    7:166 | But there was a man from Khuzhastan in the 04Yegh7    7:168 | When they reached a deserted place, which was completely 04Yegh7    7:168 | three nobles went off to a distance and ordered the executioners 04Yegh7    7:170 | rocky places, so that not a bit of flesh remained on 04Yegh7    7:171 | them and brought them to a single spot 04Yegh7    8:179 | his great honor, but like a foreign captive I banished him 04Yegh7    8:179 | I banished him to such a distant exile that in his 04Yegh7    8:189 | matters in which you are a little more knowledgeable 04Yegh7    8:191 | which wise merchant would exchange a valuable pearl for a worthless 04Yegh7    8:191 | exchange a valuable pearl for a worthless bead, unless he were 04Yegh7    9:202 | bishop Sahak replied, saying: “Like a learned and well-instructed man 04Yegh7    9:207 | flux cannot provide anyone with a stable life 04Yegh7    9:213 | Just as a ship, skimming over the immense 04Yegh7    9:213 | follows its course guided by a wise and skillful captain, so 04Yegh7    9:216 | how much further is such a confused state of affairs from 04Yegh7    9:221 | came and was incarnate from a human being, and taught us 04Yegh7    9:222 | He even raised himself to a gibbet in the form of 04Yegh7    10:226 | them to be brought forward, a priest Arshen by name, about 04Yegh7    10:227 | cracked from the pressure. For a long time, he remained in 04Yegh7    10:232 | the executioners, immediately on receiving a command from the three nobles 04Yegh7    10:232 | the blessed one’s head with a sword and threw his body 04Yegh7    10:232 | and threw his body into a dry pit 04Yegh7    10:233 | occasion to travel there for a year and six months. I 04Yegh7    10:234 | he was positively considered as a father to the whole country 04Yegh7    10:235 | now my turn to make a request of you: spare your 04Yegh7    10:235 | and do not surrender to a painful death in the fashion 04Yegh7    10:237 | doctors, he is tired of a sickly life and prefers death 04Yegh7    10:239 | against earthly princes or lodge a complaint against any ordinary man 04Yegh7    10:248 | do well, for he is a ravager of the land and 04Yegh7    10:248 | ravager of the land and a slayer of innocent people, a 04Yegh7    10:248 | a slayer of innocent people, a friend of Satan and an 04Yegh7    11:251 | Come now, moderate a little your raging passion, attend 04Yegh7    11:252 | Whichever mortal will have a life without sadness? Are they 04Yegh7    11:259 | been subjected to you in a bodily sense 04Yegh7    11:261 | his own good will became a doctor of souls and bodies 04Yegh7    11:269 | blessed ones from one another a little and spoke only to 04Yegh7    12:276 | why do you question me a second time 04Yegh7    12:279 | Denshapuh note: “I am not a bloodthirsty beast, but I seek 04Yegh7    12:287 | the sun, for it has a portion of fire; or give 04Yegh7    12:287 | portion of fire; or give a command that fire not be 04Yegh7    12:292 | in no way enter into a debate and critique with you 04Yegh7    12:293 | did not wish to become a disciple of the truth, I 04Yegh7    12:298 | you suppose it to be a creator or created?’ 04Yegh7    12:299 | do not recognize it as a creator, nor as one that 04Yegh7    13:306 | I beat them a little with the rod, made 04Yegh7    13:309 | in the tribunal girt with a sword to instill awe into 04Yegh7    13:311 | eyes of the body for a moment and you will see 04Yegh7    13:315 | While there still remained a little strength in his body 04Yegh7    13:316 | He also heard a voice from above, saying: “Take 04Yegh7    13:319 | one by one but that a general order for their death 04Yegh7    14:334 | one of them. He was a man full of wisdom and 04Yegh7    14:336 | guards were cruelly afflicted by a demon 04Yegh7    14:340 | In a great turmoil they went and 04Yegh7    14:346 | men who were tormented by a demon we know were not 04Yegh7    14:346 | time. It is clear that a great miracle has occurred today 04Yegh7    15:357 | These six died a holy and desirable martyr’s death 04Yegh8    1:1 | inside the city in bonds. A royal chief-executioner came and 04Yegh8    1:9 | For we have a command from our divinely-given 04Yegh8    1:13 | boasting as if you were a disciple of an innocent man 04Yegh8    1:18 | said earlier that you are a very rebellious person. It has 04Yegh8    1:24 | you were uttering slanders like a man, but now you are 04Yegh8    1:24 | you are uselessly barking like a dog 04Yegh8    2:26 | us by words? But make a review of your wickedness and 04Yegh8    2:36 | behold our ears have received a heavenly healing and our noses 04Yegh8    2:37 | beautiful you make us in a heavenly fashion 04Yegh8    2:44 | they had been deprived of a holy death, they went their 04Yegh8    2:46 | been brought to Babylonia, to a province called Shahul, although they 04Yegh8    3:51 | to each person’s ability, one a little, another much, what people 04Yegh8    3:57 | the churches gloried as in a brave and perfect warrior, by 04Yegh8    3:60 | and spilled their blood as a propitiatory sacrifice to God 04Yegh8    4:76 | the whole country in such a loving fashion, he did not 04Yegh8    4:76 | but he chose for himself a place away from all the 04Yegh8    4:79 | to possessions, again just as a dead man is not seduced 04Yegh8    4:81 | salt for the insipid and a spurring goad for the sluggish 04Yegh8    4:83 | He was a source of healing for Armenia 04Yegh8    4:84 | He was a perfect instructor for his teachers 04Yegh8    4:84 | instructor for his teachers, and a holy advising father for his 04Yegh8    4:86 | the flesh he lived in a narrow cell, and awe of 04Yegh8    4:90 | youthful years he had made a beginning of his virtuous life 04Yegh9    1:21 | that no one ever heard a murmur of blasphemy from their 04Yegh9    1:25 | swore, saying: “There is not a word more here or a 04Yegh9    1:25 | a word more here or a word less than what came 04Yegh9    2:45 | As a result, the king’s mind was 04Yegh9    2:50 | ancestral faith had previously been a Christian; but Yazkert, king of 04Yegh9    2:50 | had forced him to become a magus 04Yegh9    3:60 | of the Alans, brought through a numerous force of Huns, and 04Yegh9    3:60 | of Huns, and warred for a year with the Albanian king 04Yegh9    3:67 | He sealed a solemn oath and had it 04Yegh9    3:68 | his father had granted him a thousand houses. This he received 04Yegh9    3:69 | that he had previously been a king 04Yegh9    3:75 | of them without exception exhibited a heavenly zeal, appearing no different 04Yegh9    4:76 | yet they were clothed with a single virtuous faith 04Yegh9    5:108 | were they accustomed to ask a visitor from afar: “When shall 05Parp1    1:2 | son Pap) was recounted by a certain P’ostos Buzandac’i. During his 05Parp1    1:6 | withstood shackles and prison for a long time out of divine 05Parp1    2:0 | us by the venerable Agat’angeghos, a learned experienced man who arranged 05Parp1    2:0 | correctly and narrated them in a fitting manner in his aforementioned 05Parp1    2:1 | reward for whomever could find a means of killing Xosrov 05Parp1    2:2 | the land of Armenia to a foreign kingdom; how dayeaks fled 05Parp1    2:2 | kingdom; how dayeaks fled to a foreign land with Xosrov’s son 05Parp1    2:3 | the return of Trdat, like a giant, and how he took 05Parp1    2:3 | of his ancestors, bravely waging a successful battle; how saint Gregory 05Parp1    2:4 | the extent of Gregory’s patience a man who spent so many 05Parp1    2:7 | was related to us in a clear and correct narration by 05Parp1    3:0 | Now after this comes a book which describes the events 05Parp1    3:2 | A certain historian called P’awstos Buzandac’i 05Parp1    3:3 | Biwzandios was a very small city having been 05Parp1    3:3 | having been built first by a certain man named Biwzas, close 05Parp1    3:5 | there in Jerusalem because of a fervent search by a holy 05Parp1    3:5 | of a fervent search by a holy man the Cross of 05Parp1    3:7 | be levelled and he built a glorious city named Constantinople, after 05Parp1    3:8 | had been built earlier became a district on the edge of 05Parp1    3:9 | from that city, as from a royal residence, and prominent scholars 05Parp1    3:10 | who had studied in such a city amidst such a multitude 05Parp1    3:10 | such a city amidst such a multitude of scholars have put 05Parp1    4:3 | redouble their valor and leave a renowned reputation of themselves and 05Parp1    4:6 | Aghan, while still a child, when the fresh down 05Parp1    4:6 | when the fresh down of a beard appeared on his handsome 05Parp1    4:6 | Heaven, went and lived in a retreat with some select men 05Parp1    4:11 | and that P’arpec’i is following a similar metaphor employed in Agat’angeghos’ 05Parp1    5:0 | who have escaped from such a perilous death upon reaching their 05Parp1    5:1 | of the Holy Spirit. As a foundation they had orthodox faith 05Parp1    5:1 | possessing the appropriate apparatus (on a ship), they had the indivisible 05Parp1    5:2 | great labor do not make a seaworthy vessel, how much more 05Parp1    5:2 | in the undertaking of such a great spiritual work where the 05Parp1    5:3 | to such labors (as writing a history) wherein the words must 05Parp1    5:4 | which did not happen, with a vain inflation of words. Nor 05Parp1    5:5 | of much pious preparation, as a favor to my weak mind 05Parp2    6:1 | bestowed upon them as king ( a member) of the Arsacid line 05Parp2    6:5 | threaten us with war and a man must recognize the experience 05Parp2    6:7 | the way of life in a land where it is as 05Parp2    7:2 | smelling, delicately flavored vegetables, and a variety of oil—producing plants 05Parp2    7:7 | and gives as if for a word, what is good, invites 05Parp2    7:10 | With the mixing with waters, a twin sweetness offers itself to 05Parp2    7:17 | naxarars, as they pleased, selected a part of what was offered 05Parp2    8:0 | the district of Ayrarat, such a coveted extraordinary district, full of 05Parp2    8:2 | smaller sector (of Armenia) in a believing country, where he would 05Parp2    8:2 | than to remain in such a luxuriantly comfortable district (as Ayrarat 05Parp2    8:3 | measured life in peace as a Christian rather than remain dwelling 05Parp2    9:1 | and fraudulent. For he has a secret oath and counsel with 05Parp2    9:4 | quickly summoned to court by a hrovartak. Knowing nothing about the 05Parp2    10:0 | provident God favored (Armenia) with a truthful man named Mashtoc.’ 05Parp2    10:0 | village of Hac’ekac’, son of a man named Vardan. In his 05Parp2    10:0 | Greek. He enlisted (served) as a soldier at the court of 05Parp2    10:0 | the group of scribes, as a royal scribe. For in that 05Parp2    10:1 | monastic life. He went to a monastery of many brothers, assumed 05Parp2    10:3 | of that desirable man Koriwn, a student of the venerable Mashtoc’ 05Parp2    10:4 | had been thinking about for a long time. God strengthened him 05Parp2    10:6 | of the Armenian people. As a result, the populace of such 05Parp2    10:6 | result, the populace of such a large land was unable to 05Parp2    10:7 | For a long while the venerable Mashtoc’ 05Parp2    10:7 | the language itself and not a foreign language 05Parp2    10:8 | had been thinking for such a long while. (Mashtoc’) received encouraging 05Parp2    10:10 | feel the need for such a great and important thing. Because 05Parp2    10:10 | of the need for such a thing, and told the king 05Parp2    10:10 | letters in the possession of a certain bishop in one village 05Parp2    10:12 | Exert yourself regarding finding such a great and useful device for 05Parp2    10:13 | that the desire of such a spiritual life was inherited by 05Parp2    10:14 | by his parents) giving him a hrovartak, and sending him to 05Parp2    10:14 | hrovartak, and sending him to a certain presbyter named Habel who 05Parp2    10:16 | from Daniel himself, and took ( a copy of the letters) from 05Parp2    11:1 | and arrogant Syriac language. As a result, the multitude of the 05Parp2    11:5 | for this and it is a great task which no other 05Parp2    11:11 | of doctrine were sweeter than a honeycomb 05Parp2    12:4 | Armenia was large and useful, a border and gateway to the 05Parp2    12:9 | the custom, they will conceive a liking for our faith, since 05Parp2    12:11 | Quickly these words became a verdict which was actually carried 05Parp2    12:11 | The very same day, in a plot hatched by people from 05Parp2    12:14 | requested that they be given a king from the Arsacid line 05Parp2    13:0 | Artashes was a cad, a luster after women 05Parp2    13:0 | Artashes was a cad, a luster after women, and reigned 05Parp2    13:3 | and do away with such a lewd monarch who so openly 05Parp2    13:10 | and were unable, even for a short time to stand going 05Parp2    13:10 | filled doctrine of the man ( a doctrine) which, to those spiritual 05Parp2    13:10 | dined on the mysteries, had a sweet taste, as the prophet 05Parp2    13:10 | prophet Daniel said, sweeter than a honeycomb) and some of the 05Parp2    13:11 | wisdom and counsel which were a part of him from his 05Parp2    13:11 | childhood, he ceased crying for a while and was silent 05Parp2    13:14 | from God, should speak in a spiritual manner. Bearing for a 05Parp2    13:14 | a spiritual manner. Bearing for a moment the man’s shortcoming, beseech 05Parp2    13:14 | flesh, even though he is a sinner. Remember the doctrine of 05Parp2    13:17 | and to transform back to a human shape (king Trdat] who 05Parp2    13:17 | who had been changed into a beast 05Parp2    13:18 | is impossible. He accomplishes in a humane fashion what appear to 05Parp2    13:19 | grant the requests of such a multitude, and quickly. This is 05Parp2    13:22 | Were it a question of taking this injured 05Parp2    13:22 | sheep of my church to a healthy physician, I would do 05Parp2    13:23 | Were it a question of taking (Artashes] before 05Parp2    13:23 | question of taking (Artashes] before a believing king for reprimand, I 05Parp2    13:23 | will not agree to denounce a believer’s sins before a non 05Parp2    13:23 | denounce a believer’s sins before a non-believer. In this my 05Parp2    13:23 | ’When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does 05Parp2    13:23 | you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go 05Parp2    13:27 | would rather die than have a believer betrayed to an unbeliever 05Parp2    13:29 | plot to destroy someone with a few failings by betraying him 05Parp2    13:29 | him to someone who is a complete blasphemer 05Parp2    13:32 | until the matter came to a head 05Parp2    14:1 | Among them was a presbyter named Surmak from the 05Parp2    14:3 | not permit them to speak a moment before (their] adversary had 05Parp2    14:14 | the great patriarch of Armenia, a man of his own tohm 05Parp2    14:15 | had actually happened, but in a hostile manner causing him much 05Parp2    14:16 | is there any more for a king? Rather, let an Iranian 05Parp2    14:20 | for him, so for betraying, a price was paid by the 05Parp2    15:1 | But a short time later, resisted by 05Parp2    15:9 | the naxarars of Armenia requested a kat’oghikos from the court, and 05Parp2    15:9 | and king Vahram gave them a certain Syrian named Brk’isho. He 05Parp2    15:12 | Unable to long endure such a foul and unworthy arrangement, they 05Parp2    15:12 | Give us another man as a leader, someone of our native 05Parp2    15:12 | native order, who will be a supervisor, and firmly keep the 05Parp2    15:14 | accordance with Brk’isho’s faith. After a short while (Shamuel] died in 05Parp2    16:8 | to rule as patriarch over a people which plots against, betrays 05Parp2    16:8 | Holy Spirit which gave us a second birth in the holy 05Parp2    16:10 | and wine and placed upon a pack-animal and taken to 05Parp2    16:10 | pack-animal and taken to a shelter; that sheep was mercilessly 05Parp2    16:12 | providence revealed to me in a dream, before I was ordained 05Parp2    16:12 | dream, before I was ordained a bishop that this disastrous circumstance 05Parp2    17:0 | Most High to grant me a male son, like my ancestors 05Parp2    17:3 | ranks of ministers, seated in a heavy drowse from the intensity 05Parp2    17:5 | the celebrants catch their breath a bit and conduct the canon 05Parp2    17:11 | heavens opened, through which shone a great light that filled the 05Parp2    17:12 | A four-sided bema made of 05Parp2    17:13 | There appeared on the bema a cube of pure gold, worthy 05Parp2    17:13 | with very thin linen of a glistening white color 05Parp2    17:14 | the cubic covering there was a clearly visible sign of the 05Parp2    17:15 | Suddenly, a gentle breeze blew one side 05Parp2    17:16 | table were Communion bread and a cluster of grapes according to 05Parp2    17:20 | of the bema I saw a tall, square cathedra, icy sea 05Parp2    17:20 | in color and covered with a thick brown cloth 05Parp2    17:21 | the cloth was lifted by a gentle breeze, I caught sight 05Parp2    17:21 | breeze, I caught sight of a large salver on the throne 05Parp2    17:22 | of the salver there was a folded silk cope, and beside 05Parp2    17:22 | silk cope, and beside it a golden globe and a piece 05Parp2    17:22 | it a golden globe and a piece of parchment, atop which 05Parp2    17:22 | piece of parchment, atop which a few lines had been wonderfully 05Parp2    17:22 | though by the hand of a skillful calligrapher. Near the center 05Parp2    17:23 | the effaced lines, I saw a line and a half written 05Parp2    17:23 | I saw a line and a half written in gilded letters 05Parp2    17:31 | fade, and I sunk into a frightening reverie 05Parp2    17:32 | Then, suddenly, the figure of a heavenly, luminous man appeared to 05Parp2    17:36 | thoughts, troubled about not having a son? You, who knew well 05Parp2    17:37 | which He showed you as a great revelation not only before 05Parp2    17:43 | as the bema appeared like a cloud, He who ascended with 05Parp2    17:43 | the just with Himself, to a place of many dwellings in 05Parp2    17:44 | the bema was covered by a clean, thin linen cloth, which 05Parp2    17:45 | the gentle breeze that opened a part of the cloth, take 05Parp2    17:45 | the cloth, take it as a sign of gentle inspiration by 05Parp2    17:50 | of the world, three and a half decades will be decreed 05Parp2    17:50 | fruits of the three and a half branches 05Parp2    17:53 | Upon this was a salver made of silver, for 05Parp2    17:53 | pure like silver tried in ( a furnace of) the earth [Psalm 11:6 LXX].” When 05Parp2    17:58 | atop which were shown you a few lines in gold leaf 05Parp2    17:61 | for the other line and a half that appeared to you 05Parp2    17:61 | the abomination that causes desolation, a king from the Arsacid line 05Parp2    17:61 | will accede again, together with a patriarch from the line of 05Parp2    17:62 | means of the line and a half of wonderfully gilded script 05Parp2    17:62 | enemy of righteousness grows haughty, a righteous patriarch will ascend to 05Parp2    17:63 | and bearing bitter torments for a long time will he then 05Parp2    17:63 | he then be sentenced to a martyr’s death by the sword 05Parp2    17:74 | as divine revelation, for not a word from it will err 05Parp2    17:75 | were awake, I was in a state of immense surprise and 05Parp2    17:75 | me worthy of seeing such a frightful vision 05Parp2    18:4 | had no male offspring, only a daughter who was wed to 05Parp2    18:4 | the venerable Hamazaspean. (Sahak) sealed ( a document) and gave them the 05Parp2    18:6 | blessed man were taken by a multitude of priests and azats 05Parp2    18:6 | of Taron. There they built a repository for the saint and 05Parp2    18:6 | of this just man in a place fit for the honest 05Parp2    18:7 | They also built a glorious church there and a 05Parp2    18:7 | a glorious church there and a martyrium for the saints and 05Parp2    18:7 | They established at the spot a monastery for a multitude of 05Parp2    18:7 | the spot a monastery for a multitude of clerics, establishing continual 05Parp2    18:7 | people and (the participation of) a great number of people who 05Parp2    19:1 | the peoples of Ayrarat hold a feast in his honor with 05Parp3    20:0 | King Yazkert had a hazarapet named Mihrnerseh who was 05Parp3    20:0 | hazarapet named Mihrnerseh who was a malicious, malignant person. For many 05Parp3    20:0 | meditated scheme, (Mihrnerseh) had as a wicked assistant and impious supporter 05Parp3    20:0 | wicked assistant and impious supporter a man from the Siwnik’ tohm 05Parp3    20:1 | as Satan in Paradise used a snake as an accomplice and 05Parp3    20:4 | day and night implanted as a seed and nurtured in every 05Parp3    20:5 | stated that the fire was a god. Apostasizing the inseparable, united 05Parp3    20:6 | mind’s eye, and behold such a kingdom as this one: mighty 05Parp3    20:11 | question the dull vardapet how a god who is himself lacking 05Parp3    20:12 | it, and one can give a part of what he has 05Parp3    20:14 | To request it from such a one, with many entreaties and 05Parp3    20:16 | be unable to resist such a great (military) force (as Iran 05Parp3    20:17 | even if I receive not a single benefit from it, it 05Parp3    20:18 | which Varazvaghan) had brought to a head. Indeed, from this time 05Parp3    20:18 | righteous judgement requited him with a verdict befitting his deeds. For 05Parp3    20:19 | the presence of everyone, becoming a constant spectacle. He fell to 05Parp3    20:20 | God, he afflicted him for a long time with severe, unbelievable 05Parp3    20:23 | attacked the lambs and made a carnage 05Parp3    21:0 | found in the demoniac Varazvaghan a support for his poison and 05Parp3    21:3 | up and hold for such a one—to say nothing about 05Parp3    21:4 | in which you rule as a god, where you can kill 05Parp3    21:5 | and important (issue)—that such a host of souls are being 05Parp3    21:8 | the Aryans know Armenia as a large and useful land. It 05Parp3    21:12 | already was concerned about such a great matter and planned to 05Parp3    21:12 | made even more sure by a man from the tohm of 05Parp3    21:12 | which would come from such a matter both to your kingdom 05Parp3    21:13 | by envy to have such a life and such good things 05Parp3    21:17 | He sent a hrovartak to all the Armenian 05Parp3    22:2 | be punished for not demanding a certain thing from you, you 05Parp3    22:3 | to you. As you are a useful land and beloved by 05Parp3    23:0 | of their impious faith in a written form, they realized that 05Parp3    23:2 | follows: Yovsep’ (who, though (only) a priest by ordination, at the 05Parp3    23:4 | Aghan of the Arcrunid line, a marvellous man of angelic faith 05Parp3    24:4 | this faith, to obey such a command and accept it. We 05Parp3    24:4 | it. We cannot hear even a single word about this, because 05Parp3    24:7 | false and the nonsense of a stupid person. As we have 05Parp3    25:4 | let alone write it in a letter and send it to 05Parp3    25:8 | delegations to one another, made a pact, and confirmed it with 05Parp3    25:9 | on God’s help to find a way out for them 05Parp3    26:4 | Aryans without hearing from us a reply to your order 05Parp3    26:7 | the court nobility heard such a response from them, he note 05Parp3    26:10 | you have been travelling like a blind person in the darkness 05Parp3    26:12 | the others were silent for a moment. But then Vardan, lord 05Parp3    26:16 | correct), even though received from a man; let alone to betray 05Parp3    26:20 | the king excuse us for a few days to consult with 05Parp3    26:21 | something which has become such a great issue. For what you 05Parp3    26:21 | and the forcible adoption of a faith which was accepted and 05Parp3    27:0 | and design they could find a way out of the situation 05Parp3    27:1 | After a few days of much anguished 05Parp3    27:3 | cause the eternal ruination of a limitless multitude of men, women 05Parp3    27:4 | together morning and evening for a few days, nonetheless they did 05Parp3    27:4 | accept and consent to such a plan, since the faith founded 05Parp3    27:10 | and worthy of tears, such a fate is nothing compared to 05Parp3    27:11 | is the impending danger of a transitory nature, for once plunged 05Parp3    27:12 | able to convince yourself for a moment, we know that many 05Parp3    27:12 | foundations. And should it receive a temporary shock, it will thereafter 05Parp3    27:13 | the case if you, for a moment, will become diseased for 05Parp3    27:14 | deny my Creator, either on a pretext or in actual fact 05Parp3    27:20 | He was a modest, intelligent and brave man 05Parp3    27:25 | holy Church. Treating (Vardan) as a learned and informed man—he 05Parp3    27:29 | If only on a pretext you will but temporarily 05Parp3    27:34 | his face he agreed on a pretext to temporarily be wounded 05Parp3    28:3 | That day they held a great celebration of joy believing 05Parp3    28:5 | They had been given a multitude of false vardapets, called 05Parp3    28:14 | I will endeavor to do a deed with such strength and 05Parp3    28:16 | upon him the reputation of a champion for eternity 05Parp3    29:0 | awaiting) those who travelled such a long journey yet were able 05Parp3    29:2 | their fathers’ arms, frightened that a transformation had occurred, not considering 05Parp3    29:2 | and streaming with tears. As a result, the children also began 05Parp3    29:5 | dispersed thoroughly and became as a flock lacking a shepherd 05Parp3    29:5 | became as a flock lacking a shepherd 05Parp3    30:1 | me. Rather I erred for a moment, making pretexts until the 05Parp3    30:9 | They arrived at a village named Aramanay located in 05Parp3    30:9 | they wanted to rest for a few days and where they 05Parp3    30:13 | Vasak, prince of Siwnik’, wrote a letter, signed it with his 05Parp3    30:16 | sepuhs, as well as with a summarized message of all of 05Parp3    30:18 | own, do not abandon such a multitude of souls to be 05Parp3    30:20 | his soul; and what can a man give in place of 05Parp3    31:1 | Having achieved unity, a multitude of them did not 05Parp3    31:1 | homes. Others celebrated mass with a host of clerics at his 05Parp3    31:3 | regarded the situation not with a view to advancing his cause 05Parp3    31:3 | was not thinking about achieving a reputation for victory. He longed 05Parp3    31:3 | of the Church. But as a virtuous person, he was aware 05Parp3    31:3 | he was aware that as a result of (untimely provocations, the 05Parp3    31:4 | he was actually thinking about a previous grudge that he, Vahan 05Parp3    32:1 | in their presence, and as a result (the mages) circulated around 05Parp3    32:3 | that it was not only ( a question of) the man’s sons 05Parp3    32:3 | his very intentions, those of a glory-loving denier of God 05Parp3    32:4 | Now a certain individual named Zandaghan from 05Parp3    32:4 | Zandaghan from the Ostan house, a putrid seed, who had done 05Parp3    32:5 | they slayed him by lapidation, ( a deed) befitting his impious acts 05Parp3    32:10 | body which You created from a holy and divine virgin, You 05Parp3    32:10 | were taken and affixed to a wooden cross 05Parp3    32:11 | went to Heaven. You gave a joyous promise that all who 05Parp3    32:13 | the mud of apostasy, like a herd of pigs 05Parp3    32:17 | without any pardon. And may a frightful roar be heard from 05Parp3    32:18 | of blessing and curses in a loud voice, the whole land 05Parp3    32:22 | should be carefully held for a day. The next day, at 05Parp3    33:1 | of P’aytakaran where he formed a brigade and dispatched it to 05Parp3    33:2 | go and engage them with a brigade 05Parp3    33:4 | Now Vasak was creating a path of deceit in his 05Parp3    33:9 | of the tun of Amatunik’, a learned and sagacious man, the 05Parp3    34:1 | cavalry, who were eager for a war of virtue. (These were 05Parp3    34:3 | Vardan entered a holy church, the house of 05Parp3    34:5 | the Aryans, informing him in a letter of his treacherous plan 05Parp3    35:6 | fronts, entrusting each (front) to a military commander. As military commander 05Parp3    35:7 | As a comrade-in-arms (Vardan) gave 05Parp3    35:10 | the horse. Fearlessly, boldly, like a bird he mounted the horse 05Parp3    35:11 | brigade. They also were chasing a multitude of Iranian troops before 05Parp3    35:17 | great Kur River. They reached a guard wall, located between the 05Parp3    35:17 | they entrusted the pass to a royal Aghbanian (Aghuan) named Vahan 05Parp3    35:17 | ally with them by sending a brigade, (These peoples) willingly and 05Parp3    36:8 | victory or defeat, rather, like a thirsty person they longed for 05Parp3    36:9 | land, and does not seek a harmful destruction of the mages 05Parp3    36:11 | priests—having the following names: a certain Zangak, Sahak Jaynogh, and 05Parp3    36:11 | Sahak Jaynogh, and another one, a certain Petros Erkat’i 05Parp3    37:2 | After a few days had passed, they 05Parp3    37:6 | urged each other on, resembling a flock which hurries after the 05Parp3    37:7 | not go as quickly bearing a calf to the angels who 05Parp3    37:7 | angels who had promised him a son, as the Armenian troops 05Parp3    37:8 | sparapet of Armenia , Vardan, sent a sepuh named Arhanjar of the 05Parp3    37:13 | the Armenian troops. Considering it a proper refuge for themselves, they 05Parp3    38:0 | the Iranians) who were like a flock that had lazily dispersed 05Parp3    38:1 | to see it sullied by a soul-losing pollution; rather, at 05Parp3    38:1 | soul-losing pollution; rather, at a moment’s call, they hastened to 05Parp3    38:2 | troops. The day drew to a close 05Parp3    38:4 | all of this they accepted a command of the holy priests 05Parp3    38:5 | doctrine) to take heart for a moment, and then to inherit 05Parp3    38:7 | brought delight to the listeners. A luminous clarity revealed itself in 05Parp3    38:8 | Mashtoc’) saw in waking how a brilliant light radiated forth around 05Parp3    38:8 | blessed man (Ghewond) would die a martyr’s death. Although they did 05Parp3    38:9 | He note: “Those who experience a premature and slow death, have 05Parp3    38:11 | But the fate of a martyr is not shared by 05Parp3    38:13 | to be worthy of attaining a portion of the inheritance of 05Parp3    38:15 | Yovsep’, who, although ordained as a presbyter, nonetheless had the fortune 05Parp3    39:6 | midst and surrounded them like a sea. Those (Armenians) who had 05Parp3    40:0 | to Him, Mushkan Niwsalawurt sent a hrovartak to Yazkert, king of 05Parp3    40:2 | Yazkert ordered that as a reply to the hrovartak Mushkan 05Parp3    40:3 | He ordered that a certain man named Atrormizd, from 05Parp3    41:0 | Tayk’, where the latter organized a brigade from the select multitude 05Parp3    41:1 | For a multitude of the fugitive Armenians 05Parp3    41:2 | agreed to aid them with a brigade. But while this holy 05Parp3    41:4 | the sparapet of Antioch) and a certain P’ghorent (a man of 05Parp3    41:4 | Antioch) and a certain P’ghorent ( a man of Syrian nationality, who 05Parp3    41:4 | and stability which has for a long time existed among previous 05Parp3    41:4 | time existed among previous kings, a covenant both written and sealed 05Parp3    41:4 | and sealed, and to aggrevate a peaceful situation with warfare, and 05Parp3    41:4 | with warfare, and to remove a land from the service of 05Parp3    41:5 | knows for sure. Would such a ( proposed) war be resolved easily 05Parp3    41:12 | granted it, and crowned him a saint 05Parp3    42:0 | then took counsel to devise a means of hunting the fugitives 05Parp3    42:5 | Because of a grudge of the prince of 05Parp3    42:6 | Armenia. (Vasak) thought to render a very great service to king 05Parp3    42:13 | inquired: “Whose multitude is that?” A man replied: “The lord of 05Parp3    42:18 | Vasak) who was crazed by a dew, thought that they did 05Parp3    42:18 | Vasak) travelled with them for a long time 05Parp3    42:20 | the treacherous Vasak had advanced a little from where (the captives 05Parp3    42:23 | to my lord, to receive a great reward for my great 05Parp3    42:24 | the land of Armenia as a reward for your ’worthwhile efforts’ 05Parp3    43:2 | the Iranians) honored him as a loyal and benevolent man. (This 05Parp3    43:3 | you dare to do such a deed, which is worthy of 05Parp3    43:3 | your hands forth to such a great fire, having no fear 05Parp3    43:3 | or princes? For when such a deed is perpetrated against a 05Parp3    43:3 | a deed is perpetrated against a man, it merits death, to 05Parp3    43:5 | of God with fear of a man 05Parp3    43:8 | honoring it, and doing it a good turn 05Parp3    44:0 | from the district of Rstunik’, a student of the holy bishop 05Parp3    44:1 | the atrushans, and murdered such a rich fire which the gods 05Parp3    44:2 | harmful teaching, have destroyed such a man 05Parp3    44:3 | And in such a land, an inestimable amount of 05Parp3    44:4 | you cannot yourselves think up a death, and a way of 05Parp3    44:4 | think up a death, and a way of quitting the light 05Parp3    44:11 | now think, carry out such a great and awesome act as 05Parp3    44:11 | act as ignorant people, without a plan; nor do we regret 05Parp3    44:14 | Now, a fire is born of iron 05Parp3    44:15 | If one takes a fire made of iron and 05Parp3    44:15 | it will go out. Similarly, a fire of stone, if covered 05Parp3    44:15 | water or other materials. But a fire made of wood, will 05Parp3    44:15 | wood which should be styled a god, since it both gives 05Parp3    44:17 | its brother and parent in a hostile fashion, how would it 05Parp3    44:21 | As a result, (the Vardanians) were unable 05Parp3    44:23 | Mihrnerseh) said to them in a rage 05Parp3    44:26 | responded: “Lord Ghewond has, for a long time, thought over and 05Parp3    44:26 | you. He said them in a manner befitting his holiness, and 05Parp3    44:29 | the ones with just such a disease. Do not wrathfully be 05Parp3    45:2 | that on the following day a great atean should be held 05Parp3    45:10 | this, they were silent for a moment and gave no answer 05Parp3    45:11 | his previous question and demanded a prompt response from them 05Parp3    45:12 | all speak before you as a disorganized mob 05Parp3    45:15 | had ordered us to hold a faith which neither we, nor 05Parp3    45:15 | us to consent to serve a faith which our ancestors had 05Parp3    45:15 | testify that there was such a protest from us 05Parp3    45:16 | to cover with deception for a moment (our) fear of you 05Parp3    45:16 | departing to be lost in a foreign country 05Parp3    45:18 | Vardan) turned to go as a fugitive to the country of 05Parp3    45:20 | Vasak wrote the following in a letter (to Vardan): “Why are 05Parp3    45:20 | Return, and we shall write a letter to the emperor, and 05Parp3    45:20 | He will agree that such a great land would go into 05Parp3    45:20 | delightedly agree to give us a force. (The Byzantines) and we 05Parp3    45:26 | He did indeed seize a few Iranians and temporarily bound 05Parp3    45:27 | sent Vardan and us with a brigade to fight in Aghbania 05Parp3    45:27 | this evil. He killed such a useful servant of yours (as 05Parp3    45:27 | of the deaths of such a multitude of Iranians and Armenians 05Parp3    45:28 | seated in your midst without a care, decorated like a doer 05Parp3    45:28 | without a care, decorated like a doer of good deeds 05Parp3    46:0 | to speak to him in a violent and extremely angry fashion 05Parp3    46:3 | forcibly take from me such a servant as our Vardan, with 05Parp3    46:3 | your own hand killed such a useful servant, destroyed such a 05Parp3    46:3 | a useful servant, destroyed such a great and advantageous land, and 05Parp3    46:11 | above, after being tormented for a long time by a dew 05Parp3    46:11 | for a long time by a dew, he died a wicked 05Parp3    46:11 | by a dew, he died a wicked, bitter death 05Parp3    46:13 | life and left on earth a good and permanent name for 05Parp3    48:1 | naxarars, be held there in a fortress in the Niwshapuh shahastan 05Parp3    48:6 | causes of his encountering such a heavy defeat 05Parp3    48:9 | your mind not veer to a different explanation for the bad 05Parp3    48:11 | indeed their fault that such a slaughter of his troops had 05Parp3    49:0 | having been wickedly tortured for a long time. He ordered that 05Parp3    49:1 | him by beheading him with a sword 05Parp3    50:3 | with great joy for (such a fate). For, they say that 05Parp3    50:3 | have in his home even a tiny fragment of the bones 05Parp3    50:5 | their wealth to obtain but a tooth or fingernail from such 05Parp3    50:6 | them in exchange for even a very small portion of the 05Parp3    50:7 | with great labor—(ornaments) having a neck or base of extremely 05Parp3    50:7 | give them to purchase but a small piece of the bones 05Parp3    51:0 | learned from the blessed Xuzhik— a man affectionately inclined toward the 05Parp3    51:4 | the evening service, they enjoyed a poor and small (meal, provided 05Parp3    51:10 | all the naxarars heard such a command from the blessed priests 05Parp3    51:11 | For us, today is a precursor of that day, and 05Parp3    51:15 | was the confessor lord Gregory, a doer of clean deeds and 05Parp3    51:15 | doer of clean deeds and a teacher of a clear and 05Parp3    51:15 | deeds and a teacher of a clear and vigilant doctrine which 05Parp3    51:15 | of virgins, creating in everyone a temple for the dwelling of 05Parp3    52:0 | like vardapets to be like a meal of many fragrant delicacies 05Parp3    52:0 | of many fragrant delicacies, suddenly a multitude of executioners arrived from 05Parp3    52:1 | The executioners) had with them a multitude of blacksmiths with the 05Parp3    52:3 | willingly and joyfully for such a long time. They wanted to 05Parp3    52:4 | necks. Should an enemy or a tyrannical prince by some misfortune 05Parp3    52:4 | unable to bear it for a minute 05Parp3    52:6 | world’s precious things upon such a person, to the point that 05Parp3    53:1 | Hyrcania, let no one permit a single Armenian who is in 05Parp3    53:1 | wherever he comes from), or a lad of the captive Armenian 05Parp3    53:1 | the captive Armenian naxarars, or a lad of the bound presbyters 05Parp3    53:2 | king will put you to a bitter death, while we shall 05Parp3    53:6 | and delightedly kissed them for a long time, beseeching (the priests 05Parp3    53:11 | longed to be worthy of a share in their good fate 05Parp3    54:1 | This was learned by a merchant who was a Xuzhik 05Parp3    54:1 | by a merchant who was a Xuzhik by nationality, and who 05Parp3    54:1 | Xuzhik is P’arpec’i’s term for a native of Khuzistan). This man 05Parp3    54:1 | man from childhood had been a model of virtue, and was 05Parp3    54:2 | might be worthy (of possessing) a fragment of the remains of 05Parp3    54:3 | of his pack animals. Resembling a man on a caravan, he 05Parp3    54:3 | animals. Resembling a man on a caravan, he took the road 05Parp3    54:3 | of the Xuzhik, liked him a great deal and was solicitous 05Parp3    54:7 | pagans, who, at times was a Pharisee and elsewhere a Roman 05Parp3    54:7 | was a Pharisee and elsewhere a Roman (though according to the 05Parp3    54:9 | meeting with the Xuzhik was ( a favor) of the gods. Seeing 05Parp3    54:9 | to quit his side for a moment, day or night, but 05Parp3    54:10 | fulfilled which note: “They made a plan, but not mine,” and 05Parp3    54:10 | psalmist who note: “They made a plan but were unable to 05Parp3    54:13 | speak. (Xuzhik) begged (God) for a fragment of the saints’ relics 05Parp3    54:13 | of the king’s order, and a symbol and share of the 05Parp3    54:15 | his prayers to narrate with a perpetually joyful heart to all 05Parp3    55:1 | travelled until they came to a village named Rhewan some six 05Parp3    55:3 | desert far from the village, a distance of perhaps one Iranian 05Parp3    55:3 | more. At dawn they reached a rocky, sandy valley to which 05Parp3    55:6 | deaths) of such people of a great land as Armenia is 05Parp3    55:6 | as Armenia is, and furthermore a huge number of Aryans died 05Parp3    55:7 | of kings has done you a great kindness, for he ordered 05Parp3    56:0 | such senseless advice, and like a human, choose life over death 05Parp3    56:3 | as you, and that as a result of your counsel the 05Parp3    56:3 | ruined yet more. Now such a great and wise intellect must 05Parp3    56:4 | Now, just as you were a counselor, and many died from 05Parp3    56:4 | from your actions, be now a counselor of life, and permit 05Parp3    56:15 | your words, the words of a jail-bird, if indeed the 05Parp3    57:0 | but rather stood up against a rock. And he began to 05Parp3    57:3 | kat’oghikos Yovsep’ be beheaded with a sword. When the executioners stripped 05Parp3    57:7 | beheaded the blessed one with a sword. At the time of 05Parp3    57:7 | his death, (Ghewond) said with a joyful sound; “I thank You 05Parp3    57:8 | cut off his head with a sword. In a failing voice 05Parp3    57:8 | head with a sword. In a failing voice he offered prayers 05Parp3    57:12 | there, on the top of a mountain or into the caves 05Parp3    57:12 | or into the caves of a deep valley.” Do this before 05Parp3    57:13 | God would show the man a way to be worthy of 05Parp3    57:14 | same day, in the evening, a great earthquake occurred at that 05Parp3    57:14 | were heard from the abyss. A multitude of clouds massed and 05Parp3    57:15 | A column of light, resembling a 05Parp3    57:15 | A column of light, resembling a rainbow, descended from the sky 05Parp3    57:17 | he had made for such a long time would certainly be 05Parp3    57:19 | alarm of numbness, they had a mind to flee from the 05Parp3    57:26 | took along pack animals and a square trunk for each of 05Parp3    57:28 | perturbed, lo, suddenly something resembling a radiant eagle flew down from 05Parp3    57:29 | placed each saint’s body in a trunk, (each body) being clearly 05Parp3    57:29 | as though in writing. Such a sweet fragrance wafted from the 05Parp3    57:30 | bodies in linen cloth in a fitting manner, they buried them 05Parp3    57:31 | considering (the bones) to be a find of salvation for their 05Parp3    57:36 | heavenly treasury of the saints, a favor of the blessed Trinity 05Parp3    57:38 | in Christ. He was once a merchant (possessing) an earthly treasure 05Parp3    57:38 | earthly treasure, but suddenly became a merchant who, through his good 05Parp3    57:39 | These same words were a comfort to the captive Armenian 05Parp3    58:2 | you sent them permanently to a foreign country, do us a 05Parp3    58:2 | a foreign country, do us a good turn and say so 05Parp3    58:2 | us, for we regard such a death as honorable and exalted 05Parp3    58:9 | When the princes heard such a fearless reply from the venerable 05Parp3    58:12 | The venerable priests accepted a fitting portion of the believers’ 05Parp3    58:12 | make him worthy of such a spiritual journey 05Parp3    59:2 | all others, since (Ashusha) was a very dear and deserving man 05Parp3    59:5 | you have bestowed upon me a new favor which none of 05Parp3    59:5 | that I adore you with a new type of reverence, something 05Parp4    60:5 | he received them as if a God-given blessing, and (especially 05Parp4    60:6 | were taken to Hrew and a stipend was allocated for each 05Parp4    60:7 | them were secretly keeping. As a result, they earned the reputation 05Parp4    61:1 | voluntarily with the hopes of a portion of eternity, and seeing 05Parp4    61:1 | death fearlessly, enduring bondage for a long time, bearing imprisonment and 05Parp4    61:5 | They set up a school for themselves and studied 05Parp4    61:8 | they now drank water from a ladle; instead of clothing woven 05Parp4    62:1 | land of Armenia [Giwt I Ot’msets’i, 461-478]. He was a man filled with much learning 05Parp4    62:4 | saint Vardan’s brother) who was a woman renowned and intellectually better 05Parp4    62:6 | named Vard, who was still a boy and was staying with 05Parp4    63:16 | them, sometimes to flee to a foreign (place), sometimes in connection 05Parp4    64:2 | kat’oghikos of Armenia, Giwt, fabricated a myriad of inimical words, and 05Parp4    64:5 | things as he chose in a similarly hostile vein 05Parp4    64:9 | man as though he were a prophet of the lord God 05Parp4    64:12 | liking Christianity and whoever is a Christian is not something new 05Parp4    64:15 | false and the result of a grudge 05Parp4    64:17 | ones who gave you such a great occupation, though you have 05Parp4    64:18 | you wish. I will give a rescript in perpetuity to that 05Parp4    64:21 | between the two sides (in a dispute). What the messengers hear 05Parp4    64:26 | laws of kings (state) that a messenger should not dare to 05Parp4    64:29 | rage, and wanted to give a severe order 05Parp4    64:30 | suddenly he stopped himself for a moment and was quiet. Then 05Parp4    64:34 | shackles nor death (which for a long time he had longed 05Parp4    64:35 | by the pagans, who found a cure for each of their 05Parp4    64:39 | With a blessing, he left the entire 05Parp4    65:5 | detractors had stirred up such a storm around him, and realizing 05Parp4    65:8 | someone was unable to perform a court assignment because of imprudence 05Parp4    65:9 | at things, the son of a Syrian man. He especially resembled 05Parp4    65:9 | chatter. Vriw, unable to perform a court assignment went before king 05Parp4    65:9 | Huns, give them gold, request a brigade, and rebel 05Parp4    65:11 | was astonished, and note: “Such a speedy arrival by Vahan goes 05Parp4    65:15 | whom I rule over like a lord, so that they serve 05Parp4    65:16 | would I bring here such a quantity of gold, enough to 05Parp4    65:16 | if I were to live a long time), and ten others 05Parp4    65:22 | the Savior to grant him a favorable hour, saying to himself 05Parp4    66:0 | While Vahan was in a state of confusion with such 05Parp4    66:4 | I will bring forth such a multitude of the Huns that 05Parp4    66:5 | and personally expected benefit and a goodly visit from On High 05Parp4    66:6 | been saddened and confused for a long while because of being 05Parp4    66:6 | while because of being labelled a magian. They note: “This hour 05Parp4    66:7 | to tire out the Iranians a little 05Parp4    66:8 | A few of the Armenian naxarars 05Parp4    66:9 | leave this world bearing such a name 05Parp4    66:14 | He wants, easily) to find a resolution of the matter. But 05Parp4    66:15 | from Vahan Mamikonean, they gave a united reply: “Everything that you 05Parp4    66:18 | heart. May He give me a good sign and return my 05Parp4    66:19 | and after praying they requested a holy Gospel 05Parp4    66:20 | and one able to keep a secret. Bringing forth a blessed 05Parp4    66:20 | keep a secret. Bringing forth a blessed Gospel, all of them 05Parp4    67:0 | A certain one of the Armenian 05Parp4    67:7 | There was a sepuh from Urc named Varaznerseh 05Parp4    67:7 | called Sagray fortress, which was a secure fortress in their principality 05Parp4    67:8 | Furthermore, the emperor is sending a brigade to the Armenians, but 05Parp4    67:8 | will easily and lightly accomplish a very great deed, and having 05Parp4    67:8 | great deed, and having received a good name, both you and 05Parp4    67:10 | the people with him. Taking a brigade from Atrpatakan, and from 05Parp4    68:1 | and unprepared, they thought for a moment about going to secure 05Parp4    68:6 | and his brother Arhastom, and a brigade with them numbering [400] men 05Parp4    68:7 | Entering a church, they worshipped the lord 05Parp4    68:17 | to Atrvshnasp, saying: “I have a message for the Armenians who 05Parp4    68:18 | vanquished, nonetheless he sent back a very severe reply, saying: “What 05Parp4    68:18 | reply, saying: “What message could a rebellious land send me 05Parp4    68:20 | sent me to you with a message. Rather, I came to 05Parp4    68:20 | men. You have come pursuing a bad matter. You will meet 05Parp4    69:4 | came forth and massed on a visible promontory of that part 05Parp4    69:6 | From a distance, the brave select men 05Parp4    69:13 | them through duplicity, and inherit a great name 05Parp4    69:16 | reached the Katsac’ military commander, a mighty and martial man, struck 05Parp4    69:17 | Whomever God aids can expel a thousand, and move two myriads 05Parp4    69:18 | let me, at least for a moment, sadden the hearts of 05Parp4    69:22 | gladdened by disrupting the city), a messenger bearing glad tidings quickly 05Parp4    69:22 | Gnunik’ tohm. Crying out in a loud voice he note: “The 05Parp4    69:25 | Yohan, kat’oghikos of Armenia had ( a passage read) from the twenty 05Parp4    69:29 | triumph, while giving the enemy a status of dissolution and disgrace 05Parp4    69:29 | they kissed each other with a greeting of joy, and entered 05Parp4    70:1 | recalled them to himself, on a pretext 05Parp4    70:3 | the general of Armenia, sent ( a message) to the prominent and 05Parp4    70:3 | of the mages, burning like a furnace has ignited and scorched 05Parp4    70:3 | the souls of all but a few 05Parp4    70:11 | A certain sepuh of the Anjewac’ik’ 05Parp4    70:14 | Anjewac’ik’ sepuh: “He is like a cow, and needs only to 05Parp4    70:14 | and needs only to have a collar put on his neck 05Parp4    70:16 | As a result of his impious words 05Parp4    70:16 | mauled by the horns of a cow and trampled 05Parp4    70:18 | unorganized troops to scatter such a multitude. News of this extraordinary 05Parp4    70:19 | offered to the lord God a feast of joy and acceptable 05Parp4    71:3 | Iranian brigade, they encamped in a village named Nersehapat 05Parp4    71:6 | holy Spirit, Paul, exclaimed in a loud voice: ’Hope does not 05Parp4    71:8 | and, resembling briars tossed by a severe wind, he will disperse 05Parp4    71:18 | the two brigades they herded a countless multitude of brave men 05Parp4    71:18 | where they killed them, causing a great bloodletting 05Parp4    71:22 | kat’oghikos of Armenia, Yohan, with a good name, much glory and 05Parp4    71:22 | Christ, the granter of such a victory. (Yohan) went before the 05Parp4    71:22 | before the victorious brigade with a joyful heart, giving them many 05Parp4    72:0 | all the Armenian troops) suddenly a second unexpected piece of good 05Parp4    72:2 | walls of Jericho fell with a crash 05Parp4    72:4 | shahastan, from lofty walls, from a multitude of guards surrounded by 05Parp4    72:5 | His mighty lordship gave me a good sign, allowing me to 05Parp4    73:0 | wise and learned people observed a halo over the brave sepuh 05Parp4    73:4 | The emissary had a letter supposedly written by Vaxt’ang 05Parp4    73:4 | which note: “I have commanded a brigade of Huns to come 05Parp4    73:5 | for I have ordered such a great multitude to come 05Parp4    73:14 | Armenian brigade into Iberia as a good thing. Although they said 05Parp4    73:16 | The Armenian camp went to a place more distant from the 05Parp4    73:19 | They swore a vow with the Iranians, and 05Parp4    74:5 | Mamikonean sepuh, Vasak, forcefully hit a certain soldier of the Iranian 05Parp4    74:6 | cried out: “Hurry and find a spear, Nerseh, and come back 05Parp4    74:6 | we shall never find such a wonderful opportunity for transforming death 05Parp4    74:6 | having missed the opportunity for a renowned and glorious death, we 05Parp4    74:6 | later quit this life through a nameless and useless death 05Parp4    74:7 | the blessed Vasak Mamikonean, with a reliable oath 05Parp4    74:15 | The Iranians also seized a Siwni sepuh named Yazd, and 05Parp4    75:0 | of Armenia, temporarily went to a more secure place in (the 05Parp4    75:1 | Mihran came after them with a brigade and tried to either 05Parp4    75:2 | hrasax distant from it at a village named Mkarhinch’ with [100] men 05Parp4    75:4 | in the midst of such a large brigade of powerful brave 05Parp4    75:6 | people with just eyes, as a king; he should look with 05Parp4    75:6 | listen with justice, as befits a king 05Parp4    75:7 | cause of the destruction of a land, wants to see with 05Parp4    75:7 | one can stand before such a king, and serving him is 05Parp4    75:8 | For a lord who does not know 05Parp4    75:8 | his worth, can hardly be a good lord to his servants 05Parp4    75:9 | Now as for Armenia, such a great and excellent land: show 05Parp4    75:9 | and excellent land: show me a man in such a land 05Parp4    75:9 | me a man in such a land who has attained tanuterut’iwn 05Parp4    75:9 | are able to) deceive such a great kingdom are given glory 05Parp4    75:9 | as soon as they are a little way distant from you 05Parp4    75:11 | You, a Mihran, as well as all 05Parp4    75:12 | to hearing that from such a king 05Parp4    75:14 | the Armenians who accomplished such a great deed, which all of 05Parp4    75:18 | if the military commander of a brigade is bad, the brigade 05Parp4    75:19 | was left (an orphan) as a boy by (the death of 05Parp4    75:19 | was I in any way a participant in what they did 05Parp4    75:20 | But when I became a conscious person, and became worthy 05Parp4    75:23 | flee the land, I had a wicked thought—I wanted to 05Parp4    75:24 | entire world that (Zoroastrianism) is a false and filthy deception. After 05Parp4    75:26 | For whatever I encounter as a Christian, I am happy and 05Parp4    75:30 | fighting) for we will die a noteworthy and good death as 05Parp4    76:3 | stop crying, to sleep on a bed, or to eat without 05Parp4    76:3 | tears. Whatever he ate had a wicked bitterness in his mouth 05Parp4    76:5 | After following them through a number of lodging places, unable 05Parp4    76:5 | that man of God in a loud voice mixed with tears 05Parp4    76:10 | to speak to him in a rough and threatening manner, saying 05Parp4    76:10 | rough and threatening manner, saying: “ A man who has done so 05Parp4    76:11 | For if someone flees from a great and mighty prince, he 05Parp4    76:11 | hide himself; so where can a fugitive hide and live if 05Parp4    76:14 | apostasy he would die with a bad name 05Parp4    76:17 | should I now conduct such a calamitous and disastrous business at 05Parp4    76:17 | glad and pleased to die a Christian rather than to live 05Parp4    77:5 | Through God’s design, a spiritual priest from the Teghac’ 05Parp4    77:5 | from the (battle)site to a secure place, became confident 05Parp4    77:6 | to his monastery, brought us a small amount of food and 05Parp4    77:6 | saint’s hands, we were revived a bit 05Parp4    77:12 | now, hurry and send here a strong brigade with a dependable 05Parp4    77:12 | here a strong brigade with a dependable military commander and bring 05Parp4    77:15 | of the wives—which resembled a fire blazing in their minds 05Parp4    77:18 | Vasak’s) face was illuminated by a light the like of which 05Parp4    77:24 | and they dispatched (him) with a brigade of many select men 05Parp4    77:24 | false and fraudulent men on a road they did not know 05Parp4    78:0 | paupers, suddenly Zarmihr Hazarawuxt with a multitudinous, enormous force of select 05Parp4    78:1 | but few naxarars and only a few select cavalrymen 05Parp4    78:2 | go against them with such a select multitude, even though they 05Parp4    78:2 | be unable to arrest such a mass of cavalry. No, you 05Parp4    78:5 | cavalrymen of Armenia saw such a multitude of Iranian troops which 05Parp4    78:6 | Valiantly taking a part of the Iranian brigade 05Parp4    78:11 | the kat’oghikos Yohan himself had a day to quit the city 05Parp4    79:1 | servants tried to go to a secure place on the borders 05Parp4    79:1 | awhile and rest and recuperate a little, to remain hoping for 05Parp4    79:5 | He encountered there a multitude of different people, including 05Parp4    79:7 | he alone) will flee to a foreign country, and be lost 05Parp4    79:11 | reached (Hazarawuxt) from court, bearing a hrovartak which king Peroz had 05Parp4    79:11 | of the Mihran tohm with a brigade there in the land 05Parp4    80:0 | Shapuh with the Iranian cavalry, a brigade of choice men, as 05Parp4    80:0 | the lord of Siwnik’, with a brigade drawn from the entire 05Parp4    80:2 | they needed. Thus he formed a brigade from the many who 05Parp4    80:7 | regarding Christianity and also, as a learned individual he was informed 05Parp4    80:9 | Because I love you as a son I am advising you 05Parp4    80:9 | am advising you in such a way that you will remain 05Parp4    80:11 | the two Kamsarakans heard such a message from Shapuh, the Iranian 05Parp4    80:13 | other parasites around you, taking a heap of ashes and giving 05Parp4    80:13 | pollute as she would. For a moment we might enjoy the 05Parp4    80:14 | women, we will give you a sign; test and examine it 05Parp4    80:15 | Thus, having sent such a message to Hazarawuxt, the two 05Parp4    81:1 | killed when other Iranians, becoming a mob, suffocated them 05Parp4    81:2 | him went to encamp in a nearby village under the authority 05Parp4    81:3 | Vahan Mamikonean is encamped in a village and there are extremely 05Parp4    81:7 | appointed hour. They were with a few men, and were upset 05Parp4    81:7 | and were upset. They approached a village of Karin named Arcat’i 05Parp4    81:7 | Karin named Arcat’i, and reached a torrent which was near a 05Parp4    81:7 | a torrent which was near a village, and they wanted to 05Parp4    81:7 | bank of the torrent for a while, at a place where 05Parp4    81:7 | torrent for a while, at a place where reapers of the 05Parp4    81:9 | the mshak had gone behind a haystack to evade his (would 05Parp4    82:1 | thing, while our’s came to a good conclusion 05Parp4    82:3 | will reduce us to but a few, and make us retreat 05Parp4    82:6 | were not those worthy of a clean soul, the impure (spirit 05Parp4    82:7 | accompany his troops); rather, in a rage, he himself went after 05Parp4    82:7 | after (Vahan). He encamped in a certain spot near where he 05Parp4    82:7 | in an unknown area by a branch of the river 05Parp4    82:8 | willingly, as though he were a king set up by God 05Parp4    82:9 | they violently let loose with a tumultuous downpour of arrows against 05Parp4    82:11 | and displaying great courage. After a few days he died of 05Parp4    83:1 | coming against them, roaring like a wild beast with an enraged 05Parp4    83:3 | men he had. Then, like a lion, he bellowed 05Parp4    83:4 | die hoping. To die for a blessed vow is the lot 05Parp4    83:6 | his dear ones can chase a thousand and two put ten 05Parp4    83:13 | over himself and said in a loud voice: “Let no one 05Parp4    83:17 | as though it was merely a torrential rain which falls to 05Parp4    83:18 | his brave oath-keepers, like a lion, forcefully plowed through the 05Parp4    83:18 | whom they mortally pierced with a lance through the armpit. With 05Parp4    83:18 | lance through the armpit. With a frightful sound they rent the 05Parp4    83:19 | rather with the notch of a single arrow I will scatter 05Parp4    83:23 | unconcernedly as though he were a wing of the Iranian force 05Parp4    84:3 | nothing the life of such a man as Gdihon and conquered 05Parp4    84:3 | hearts of all, destroyed such a huge multitude of troops, and 05Parp4    85:0 | the district of Basean, to a village called Aluar 05Parp4    85:2 | the Aryans, he sank into a state of dismayed terror 05Parp4    85:3 | He remained speechless for a while like a fainting person 05Parp4    85:3 | speechless for a while like a fainting person, unable to ask 05Parp4    85:4 | of the destruction of such a countless multitude of troops, and 05Parp4    85:4 | die, and what sort of a death was it 05Parp4    85:6 | Although for a serving-man speaking ill about 05Parp4    85:8 | and were unable to see a Hepthalite, or hear the name 05Parp4    85:9 | their swords. For from such a deed he personally and the 05Parp4    85:9 | the Aryans will receive eternally a bad name.’ 05Parp4    85:11 | So, with a huge multitude of Aryans and 05Parp4    85:12 | fight with me. We stipulated a boundary over which we would 05Parp4    86:1 | deeds are not those of a man of this period such 05Parp4    86:3 | an eagle swooping down upon a flock of partridges, Vahan with 05Parp4    86:4 | removed such folk and such a great and useful land from 05Parp4    86:4 | now know even better as a brave man) and the comrades 05Parp4    86:4 | would regard that (accomplishment) as a great consolation for the heavy 05Parp4    87:2 | on Vagharsh, king Peroz’ brother, a benevolent and mild man 05Parp4    88:1 | from the Aryan realm. In a major, not minor way they 05Parp4    88:2 | A primary example is the great 05Parp4    88:2 | The man who holds such a land aloof from you is 05Parp4    88:2 | land aloof from you is a good man whose worth and 05Parp4    88:6 | I know that they killed a countless multitude of our men 05Parp4    88:7 | with your rule in such a way that half of the 05Parp4    88:8 | damage (Vahan) inflicted with only a few men 05Parp4    88:11 | of us) and wrought such a deed that all who observed 05Parp4    88:12 | returning to their homes without a care. In just this way 05Parp4    88:13 | put to the sword such a man, and other distinguished and 05Parp4    88:15 | today peacefully in your service, a great deal of good and 05Parp4    88:18 | dispatched to Armenia Nixor Vshnaspdat, a mild, intelligent and constructive person 05Parp4    88:22 | would not think of such a thing, since the work which 05Parp4    89:1 | I have a hrovartak for you from king 05Parp4    89:1 | you from king Vagharsh and a message to peaceably subdue you 05Parp4    89:2 | of this message, he assembled a brigade of all the loyal 05Parp4    89:4 | affairs of our rebellion—such a significant and potentially fatal act 05Parp4    89:4 | the Aryans, and with you ( a member) of the court nobility 05Parp4    89:5 | which, if responded to in a manner desired by me and 05Parp4    89:8 | faith), let no Armenian become a mage; do not give station 05Parp4    89:9 | that you do not recognize a man on the basis of 05Parp4    89:10 | and affairs will go in a contrary way, as indeed happened 05Parp4    89:11 | Let him not always recognize a man as good or bad 05Parp4    89:16 | give us these promises in a written and sealed form, call 05Parp4    90:3 | him from Vahan Mamikonean, with a happy heart he rejoiced delightedly 05Parp4    90:4 | He ordered a diner and received them with 05Parp4    90:11 | Mihr-Vshnasp Cuarshac’i, and wrote a letter to Vahan Mamikonean with 05Parp4    90:17 | affectionately that has caused such a dark cloud and sadness to 05Parp4    91:0 | to him willingly and with a joyful heart 05Parp4    91:7 | with Aryan custom and is a new thing you have fashioned 05Parp4    91:8 | of the Aryans make me a servant, and then, without learning 05Parp4    91:14 | not remain near me as a usual neighbor, nonetheless I have 05Parp4    91:16 | fighting against many men with a few, causing such great injuries 05Parp4    91:18 | been able to resist such a countless multitude of fighting folk 05Parp4    91:20 | that you were forced as a last resort because of Peroz’ 05Parp4    91:20 | demanded service and labor as a god and he thought not 05Parp4    91:20 | recompense for that service, as a stupid man would conduct himself 05Parp4    91:21 | For a brave man it is better 05Parp4    91:26 | among men, but rather resembled a wild beast 05Parp4    92:1 | When He gives us a benevolent, experienced and constructive prince 05Parp4    92:3 | cause of such goodness for a land such as Armenia and 05Parp4    92:3 | good, and regard you as a good thing for ourselves and 05Parp4    92:7 | and greatness. Having eluded you a little, you are silent about 05Parp4    92:10 | For them such repute seems ( a cause for) rejoicing 05Parp4    92:11 | However, a real man would be shamed 05Parp4    92:12 | be destroyed by fighting such a countless multitude of troops with 05Parp4    92:12 | countless multitude of troops with a paltry number of men, we 05Parp4    92:12 | were lost and vanished without a trace. And you would say 05Parp4    92:15 | I will give you a sign—test it. Command those 05Parp4    92:16 | then withold your assistance for a moment, and leave (ownership) of 05Parp4    92:17 | the salvation or loss of a great land, and should be 05Parp4    93:0 | words from Vahan Mamikonean, with a greatly rejoicing heart he said 05Parp4    93:2 | day by day, and in a few days we will rejoice 05Parp4    93:4 | After rejoicing that day with a great dinner, and bidding farewell 05Parp4    93:8 | from achieving dignity? Now let a man who knows how to 05Parp4    93:14 | and as though awakened from a nightmare 05Parp4    93:17 | aid in finding prudence and a strong voice. The words of 05Parp4    94:1 | have done, has yet organized a brigade, to the ruination of 05Parp4    94:1 | court you will have shown a great deed of service before 05Parp4    94:3 | rejoiced with each other for a few days, while he quickly 05Parp4    94:5 | in doubt and sought for a place to cross, but they 05Parp4    94:5 | were barely able to find a way out and save themselves 05Parp4    94:6 | brave general, Vahan Mamikonean, approached a place on the bank of 05Parp4    94:7 | brigade which crossed over without a care. This was a great 05Parp4    94:7 | without a care. This was a great and clear sign both 05Parp4    94:7 | the true faith, it was a sign resembling the passage of 05Parp4    94:8 | ostan Duin, they worthily offered a mass of thanksgiving to God 05Parp4    94:11 | all the troops. He received a good reputation and (the news 05Parp4    95:0 | After a few days, Vahan Mamikonean urgently 05Parp4    95:0 | lodging places en route in a proper number of days, he 05Parp4    95:1 | they quickly and hurriedly set a time for him to see 05Parp4    95:3 | great palace was filled with a huge number of folk 05Parp4    95:5 | because of his pride, such a countless multitude of good folk 05Parp4    95:6 | ruination and that of such a multitude lost because of you 05Parp4    95:6 | worthy of interrogation, and of a wickedly tormented death. However, since 05Parp4    95:11 | tyranny were excessive and unbefitting a king 05Parp4    95:16 | your military commanders, and as a result of such meritorious service 05Parp4    95:22 | and all-seeing eye examine a man and his work, and 05Parp4    95:27 | which it is fitting for a servant to do for the 05Parp4    96:8 | would have been impossible for a mortal to have done it 05Parp4    96:9 | with throne and honor, became a raiser of the dead, and 05Parp4    96:9 | the dead, and having found a confused and ruined land, you 05Parp4    96:14 | regarding the Arcrunid terut’iwn, wait a while until people from that 05Parp4    97:2 | of blessing and said with a joyous heart 05Parp4    97:3 | robe of joy. He gave a crown as if to the 05Parp4    97:3 | adorned you with ornaments as a bride in His Kingdom 05Parp4    98:0 | Then a marzpan named Andekan came to 05Parp4    98:8 | Furthermore, assuming that a foreign marzpan went to the 05Parp4    98:8 | would find that) it is a large land; in two or 05Parp4    98:8 | would act through ignorance in a confused manner which would be 05Parp4    98:8 | confused manner which would be a burden for the people 05Parp4    98:9 | But (Vahan), since he is a native of the land, recognizes 05Parp4    98:9 | the land, recognizes everyone at a glance—keeping the good with 05Parp4    98:10 | Should all of them consume a stipend from the lord of 05Parp4    98:10 | Aryans, it will not be a small expense; should they consume 05Parp4    98:14 | they considered Andekan to be a man who loves his master 05Parp4    99:0 | king Vagharsh immediately ordered that a hrovartak be sent to Armenia 05Parp4    99:3 | the hrovartak, he immediately requested a horse to go to the 05Parp4    99:6 | That was a day of immeasurable joy and 05Parp4    99:6 | rationally right-minded people, but ( a day) of tearful mourning and 05Parp4    99:7 | one thanked God and with a heart breaking with joy he 05Parp4    100:10 | of Israel, who has given a successor to sit on my 05Parp4    100:15 | were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears!” [Jeremiah 9:1] and sitting 05Parp4    100:18 | is being beheaded—lend him a hand with pity: Tell Solomon 05Parp4    100:20 | called by Christ to have a seat—you, who are ready 05Parp4    100:20 | do not let them grab a hold of the horns of 05Parp4    100:20 | and Joab, for it is a member of the body, barren 05Parp4    100:20 | of the body, barren as a plant and tasteless, in Greek 05Parp4    100:30 | the prostitute who today is a daughter of Christ; the brigands 05Parp4    100:31 | No one demands a higher price than prayers and 05Parp4    100:32 | persons, who, on account of a few tears will be found 05Parp4    100:34 | you calm down, pause for a moment and take breath 05Parp4    100:36 | to be the cause of a thousand good deeds, still say 05Parp4    100:38 | of heaven [2 Corinthians 5:2], and with such a delighting crown—luminous and heavenly 06Khor1    1:5 | furthermore if the virtue of a rational being lies in intellection 06Khor1    1:5 | stirred to this goal by a noble yet moderated passion 06Khor1    1:6 | deserving of inscription in such a monument as this 06Khor1    2:7 | translate them into Greek; like A among the K’, and T’ 06Khor1    3:2 | of our first ancestors without a word of censure but to 06Khor1    3:4 | For although we are a small country and very restricted 06Khor1    3:5 | of benefiting themselves and leaving a memorial to their name in 06Khor1    3:6 | that succeeded each other without a pause 06Khor1    3:10 | been found to undertake such a great task and to present 06Khor1    3:10 | history of our nation in a long and useful work, to 06Khor1    3:10 | the present - reckoning this as a noble tribute to you for 06Khor1    3:11 | only this. “Is there not a book near to me,” as 06Khor1    4:3 | merciful God rewarded him as a shepherd and guide for the 06Khor1    4:6 | numbers of these proposals with a view to attaining the truth 06Khor1    4:12 | is said to have received a command from God’s mouth. But 06Khor1    4:13 | known to God, offered Him a sacrifice, and it was accepted 06Khor1    4:20 | for there had not passed a great number of years that 06Khor1    4:23 | Methusela for [200] years he lived a worthy and pleasing life, as 06Khor1    4:24 | Lamech after living [188] years begat a son and named him Noah 06Khor1    4:29 | and purified as if by a flood-as happened to those 06Khor1    4:30 | the name of son as a famous, notable, and worthy heir 06Khor1    5:41 | found him so placed by a certain very learned and erudite 06Khor1    5:47 | Cephalion is also a witness to these matters, for 06Khor1    5:47 | royal archives. But we received a command from kings to omit 06Khor1    5:50 | kings, undertook this task, like a certain Arias and many others 06Khor1    6:5 | king, so they give him a barbaric name, attributing to him 06Khor1    6:11 | But when Zrvan became a tyrant,” he says, “Titan and 06Khor1    6:12 | confusion,” he says, “Titan seized a part of the allotted territory 06Khor1    6:13 | Zrvan should reign, but made a sworn compact between them to 06Khor1    6:20 | called Gorgias and Banan and a third one called David, these 06Khor1    6:22 | There is a book about Xisut’ra and his 06Khor1    6:23 | land to the northwest. Reaching a small plain beside a long 06Khor1    6:23 | Reaching a small plain beside a long mountain, through which a 06Khor1    6:23 | a long mountain, through which a river flowed in the direction 06Khor1    6:25 | again, they say, dwelt for a few days on the confines 06Khor1    8:5 | ordered his own principality in a grand manner and established his 06Khor1    8:5 | and established his reign, had a desire to know, who and 06Khor1    8:6 | And finding a certain Syrian, Mar Abas Catina 06Khor1    8:6 | certain Syrian, Mar Abas Catina, a diligent man versed in Chaldaean 06Khor1    9:3 | Because I received from you a command to cultivate valor and 06Khor1    9:6 | I well know will be a source of delight for you 06Khor1    9:13 | safekeeping, with great care; and a part of it he ordered 06Khor1    9:13 | ordered to be inscribed on a stele 06Khor1    9:17 | task they had fallen when a fearful and divine wind, aroused 06Khor1    9:19 | our proposal not to write a complete history but to attempt 06Khor1    10:7 | dwelt at the foot of a mountain in a plain where 06Khor1    10:7 | foot of a mountain in a plain where had lingered and 06Khor1    10:7 | where had lingered and dwelt a few of the human race 06Khor1    10:7 | himself, and he built there a residence for the property and 06Khor1    10:10 | He also built a village and called it after 06Khor1    10:11 | plain at the foot of a long mountain there already dwelt 06Khor1    10:11 | long mountain there already dwelt a few men who willingly submitted 06Khor1    11:4 | sent back Bēl’s envoys with a firm response 06Khor1    11:6 | army against him, and with a mass of infantry arrived in 06Khor1    11:11 | came to the edge of a lake whose waters are salty 06Khor1    11:14 | many stadia they came to a plain between very high mountains 06Khor1    11:15 | standing calmly and patiently with a vast host to the left 06Khor1    11:15 | left of the water on a hill, like a watchtower 06Khor1    11:15 | water on a hill, like a watchtower 06Khor1    11:16 | front of the troop with a few chosen armed men, and 06Khor1    11:16 | armed men, and there was a wide distance between him and 06Khor1    11:17 | He wore a helmet of iron with distinctive 06Khor1    11:17 | covered his legs and arms. A belt girded his waist and 06Khor1    11:17 | from his left breast hung a two-edged sword. A monstrous 06Khor1    11:17 | hung a two-edged sword. A monstrous lance was in his 06Khor1    11:17 | hand and in the left a shield. Chosen men stood to 06Khor1    11:18 | behind him, forming them into a triangle. Thus, they gently advanced 06Khor1    11:19 | and in their assault raised a fearsome roar over the earth 06Khor1    11:19 | their attacks the giants brought a terrifying fear upon each other 06Khor1    11:20 | Then not a few huge men from both 06Khor1    11:25 | of the battle he built a villa and called it Hayk’ 06Khor1    11:27 | and to be buried in a high place in the view 06Khor1    12:5 | After living a few more years he begat 06Khor1    12:6 | After that he lived not a few more years and then 06Khor1    12:10 | the northeast. He descended into a deep valley surrounded by high 06Khor1    12:10 | high mountain peaks, through which a tumultuous river flowed from the 06Khor1    12:12 | from the earth - it being a three-day journey, as one 06Khor1    12:12 | of our countrymen said, for a well-girded man to encircle 06Khor1    12:12 | as it gradually rose to a steep point was truly an 06Khor1    12:12 | truly an old man of a mountain amid the younger ones 06Khor1    12:13 | plain dwelt Aramaneak; he cultivated a part of the plain on 06Khor1    12:14 | our land there were dwelling a few scattered men before the 06Khor1    12:16 | Aramayis built his habitation on a hill by the bank of 06Khor1    12:17 | had many children and was a glutton, he sent with all 06Khor1    12:17 | with all his entourage to a nearby plain, fertile and rich 06Khor1    12:17 | rich, in which ran not a few streams on the northern 06Khor1    12:21 | same habitation, distant about half a long day’s journey for a 06Khor1    12:21 | a long day’s journey for a man on foot 06Khor1    12:23 | returned to Armavir. Having lived a few years, he died 06Khor1    12:24 | northeast to the edge of a lake 06Khor1    12:26 | he begat his son Sisak, a proud and personable man, handsome 06Khor1    12:27 | lake in the east to a plain where the River Araxes 06Khor1    12:27 | and narrow ravines, and with a fearful roar descends to the 06Khor1    12:31 | of the same mountain in a secure valley he built a 06Khor1    12:31 | a secure valley he built a town and gave it his 06Khor1    12:32 | Artashēs, grandson of Vaḷarshak, descended a certain youth called Varazh who 06Khor1    12:32 | royal hunt and gave him a village on the bank of 06Khor1    12:34 | Harmay, after which he lived a few more and died 06Khor1    13:2 | undertaken at your command as a greater delight than those preferred 06Khor1    13:4 | This Aram, a few years before Ninos ruled 06Khor1    13:5 | Medes who were led by a certain Niwk’ar named Madēs, a 06Khor1    13:5 | a certain Niwk’ar named Madēs, a boastful and war-loving man 06Khor1    13:7 | there at the summit of a tower of the wall he 06Khor1    13:8 | he kept in his mind a memory of rancor with regard 06Khor1    13:9 | gave him permission to wear a diadem of pearls and to 06Khor1    14:2 | We shall expound with but a brief mention whatever later deeds 06Khor1    14:3 | to Assyria. He found there a certain Barsham of the race 06Khor1    14:5 | many valiant exploits and for a long time worshipped him 06Khor1    14:6 | And Aram subjected a great part of the Assyrian 06Khor1    14:6 | Assyrian plain to taxes for a long time 06Khor1    14:8 | cavalry, he reached Cappadocia and a place now called Caesarea 06Khor1    14:10 | So as he was spending a long time in the west 06Khor1    14:12 | He left over the country a certain Mshak of his own 06Khor1    14:12 | of his own family with a thousand of his troops and 06Khor1    15:2 | Ara, a few years before the death 06Khor1    15:2 | being considered worthy of such a favor by Ninos, like his 06Khor1    15:14 | it to be cast into a great ditch and covered up 06Khor1    15:15 | She also set up a new statue in the name 06Khor1    16:2 | these successes Semiramis lingered not a few days in the plain 06Khor1    16:3 | rivers, she note: “In such a temperate climate and purity of 06Khor1    16:3 | and land we must build a city and royal residence, so 06Khor1    16:3 | so that we may spend a fourth part of the year’s 06Khor1    16:4 | of the lake she saw a long hill whose length ran 06Khor1    16:4 | To the north it sloped a little, but to the south 06Khor1    16:4 | up sheer to heaven, with a cave in the vertical rock 06Khor1    16:4 | the south there opened out a wide meadow like a plain 06Khor1    16:4 | out a wide meadow like a plain, descending from the mountain 06Khor1    16:4 | the edge of the lake - a spacious and beautiful vale through 06Khor1    16:4 | proud rivers. There were not a few villages in the valley 06Khor1    16:4 | of the pleasant hill stood a small mountain 06Khor1    16:6 | Immediately a multitude of various workers and 06Khor1    16:9 | structure of the aqueduct even a stone suitable for a sling 06Khor1    16:9 | even a stone suitable for a sling, no matter how hard 06Khor1    16:12 | dint of great efforts, within a few years she completed the 06Khor1    16:17 | splendid and magnificent, settling within a numberless multitude of inhabitants 06Khor1    16:19 | The summit she surrounded with a wall and erected there a 06Khor1    16:19 | a wall and erected there a royal palace and some fearsome 06Khor1    16:21 | today no one can scratch a line with an iron point 06Khor1    16:22 | smoothing it like wax with a stylus, she inscribed many texts 06Khor1    17:3 | having made this arrangement over a long period of time, entrusted 06Khor1    18:2 | order not to give many a chance to laugh at me 06Khor1    19:2 | we have attempted to make a judicious collection of antiquarian lore 06Khor1    20:12 | And we have discovered for a certain fact that the posterity 06Khor1    21:4 | the war against Semiramis, leaving a male child exceedingly strong and 06Khor1    21:5 | the Armenians, and that for a long time 06Khor1    21:6 | having endured Zamesia’s scorn for a long time, was embittered at 06Khor1    22:5 | us now to set to a great task and to recount 06Khor1    22:6 | Varbakēs, a native of Media, from the 06Khor1    22:10 | is narrated by others in a different fashion, do not be 06Khor1    22:12 | not think of doing such a thing, only in recent times 06Khor1    24:9 | house of Angḷ descends from a certain Pask’am, grandson of Haykak 06Khor1    25:6 | and aspire to become such a man 06Khor1    25:7 | Those who had been under a yoke he put in a 06Khor1    25:7 | a yoke he put in a position to subject and demand 06Khor1    25:15 | allied with Azhdahak, who was a Mede, and gave him his 06Khor1    25:16 | the latter note: “Through such a relationship either I shall have 06Khor1    25:16 | relationship either I shall have a firm friendship with Tigran, or 06Khor1    26:3 | with these thoughts, he had a vision of the future through 06Khor1    26:3 | vision of the future through a prophetic dream, which he Mar 06Khor1    27:1 | saw his future destiny in a wonderful dream 06Khor1    27:3 | severe agitation of his thoughts, a vision appeared to him during 06Khor1    27:4 | Awaking with a start he did not wait 06Khor1    27:4 | he summoned his counselors. With a sad face and his gaze 06Khor1    27:5 | some hours. At last with a groan he began to reveal 06Khor1    27:6 | an unknown land near to a mountain that rose high from 06Khor1    27:7 | As I gazed for a long time at the mountain 06Khor1    27:7 | long time at the mountain, a woman dressed in purple and 06Khor1    27:7 | in purple and wrapped in a veil the color of the 06Khor1    27:8 | As I looked for a long time in amazement at 06Khor1    27:9 | The first was mounted on a lion and flew to the 06Khor1    27:9 | the west; the second on a leopard looked to the north 06Khor1    27:9 | north; but the third rode a monstrous dragon and launched an 06Khor1    27:10 | crowned me were present in a wonderful spectacle, and I, with 06Khor1    27:13 | like the sun we made a sea of blood 06Khor1    27:15 | the danger put me into a great sweat and sleep fled 06Khor1    27:16 | to come upon us in a violent assault 06Khor1    28:6 | thus to seize him like a powerless child 06Khor1    28:7 | His friends considered such a plan to be effective, and 06Khor1    28:8 | of his counselors he gave a great sum of money and 06Khor1    28:8 | and sent him off with a letter in the following terms 06Khor1    29:2 | us by the gods than a great number of friends, and 06Khor1    30:6 | if she did not make a proposal in accordance with the 06Khor1    30:8 | be treated by means of a letter or an exchange of 06Khor1    30:9 | of Azhdahak’s plot, but in a letter revealed what was in 06Khor1    30:13 | the Armenian with no less a force 06Khor1    30:15 | so that Tigranuhi might have a means of escape 06Khor1    31:2 | Tigranuhi with royal pomp and a large escort to Armenia to 06Khor1    31:3 | is descended from her as a royal line 06Khor1    31:4 | seed with young men and a multitude of prisoners, more than 06Khor1    31:6 | These came into being from a terrible earthquake, as say those 06Khor1    31:9 | They say that Argavan made a feast in honor of Artashēs 06Khor1    31:9 | of Artashēs and there was a plot against him in the 06Khor1    31:10 | of Artashēs, did not find a place for his palace when 06Khor1    32:2 | To give a faithful account of the original 06Khor1    32:2 | and his various deeds is a task dear to me as 06Khor1    32:2 | task dear to me as a historian in my narrative concerning 06Khor1    32:5 | or more called Aramazd is a certain bald Aramazd 06Khor1    32:7 | forth flame. From the flame a red-headed young boy ran 06Khor1    33:1 | participation of our Zarmayr with a small Ethiopian army, and his 06Khor1    33:6 | your desire goes beyond such a divine limit, so that everything 06Khor1    33:9 | we are here acting like a wise or like an unskilled 06Khor1    33:11 | the Assyrians helped Priam with a small Ethiopian army, was there 06Khor1    34:3 | then how a certain Hrudēn bound him with 06Khor1    34:4 | up and led him to a cave in the mountain and 06Khor1    34:12 | anyone be another self to a friend? There is no such 06Khor1    34:13 | by my own hand, giving a meaning to their irrationality. And 06Khor1    34:14 | of that account, but in a separate and special place 06Khor1    34:18 | of Biurasp is found in a Chaldaean book as the Centaur 06Khor1    34:19 | He wished to show everyone a way of life in common 06Khor1    34:24 | such teaching he resorted to a bitter stratagem - feigning severe pains 06Khor1    34:25 | And a familiar spirit, which practiced this 06Khor1    34:25 | So therefore, when he sought a present from him, he kissed 06Khor1    34:26 | or more precisely Biurasp’s becoming a dragon, this is what is 06Khor1    34:28 | by this, his pursuers rested a few days in the region 06Khor1    34:29 | mountain and threw him into a great pit of sulfur 06Khor2    1:2 | now describe for you as a second book the various events 06Khor2    1:2 | Arshak. His descendants increased into a nation and multiplied, and one 06Khor2    1:2 | and multiplied, and one at a time in turn succeeded to 06Khor2    1:6 | he subjected the Parthians in a great war, and for this 06Khor2    2:8 | attacked him in Babylon with a Macedonian army, but in the 06Khor2    2:10 | winter season, confronted him in a narrow spot and perished with 06Khor2    2:10 | army. And Arshak ruled over a third of this world, as 06Khor2    3:3 | in our first book, was a valiant and prudent man. He 06Khor2    3:4 | wars, the valiant Parthian made a beginning to his benevolent actions 06Khor2    3:4 | man, Shambat Bagarat, who was a Jew, by giving him the 06Khor2    3:4 | his name - which is now a great principality in our land 06Khor2    3:5 | the Macedonians, and he was a member of the royal court 06Khor2    4:2 | western Assyria, Vaḷarshak gathered together a great army from Azerbaijan and 06Khor2    4:6 | Therefore a certain Morp’iwḷik united these provinces 06Khor2    4:7 | They met each other by a high hill with a rocky 06Khor2    4:7 | by a high hill with a rocky summit, which is today 06Khor2    4:7 | called Coloneia. Approaching to within a few stadia of each other 06Khor2    5:1 | Morp’iwḷik and his death from a blow by a lance 06Khor2    5:1 | death from a blow by a lance 06Khor2    5:2 | line in order and made a violent assault 06Khor2    5:3 | He was a spirited man; his limbs were 06Khor2    5:3 | well proportioned, and he possessed a firm body and great strength 06Khor2    5:4 | for he was powerful and a long thrower, and he cast 06Khor2    5:4 | and he cast his javelins a great distance like swift-winged 06Khor2    6:2 | To this land he gave a prettier form, reducing the mountainous 06Khor2    6:2 | mountainous and tropical terrain to a temperate and delightful climate for 06Khor2    6:8 | bank of the Metsamawr in a spot where the great river 06Khor2    7:7 | of their principality he appointed a certain Maḷkhaz, a noble and 06Khor2    7:7 | he appointed a certain Maḷkhaz, a noble and spirited man 06Khor2    7:9 | royal hunt he set Dat, a descendant of Gaṙnik’s, grandson of 06Khor2    7:11 | Over the granaries he appointed a certain Gabaḷ, and Abēl as 06Khor2    7:13 | rain and sun were oppressing a sleeping boy, and the shadow 06Khor2    7:13 | boy, and the shadow of a bird protected the drowsy youth 06Khor2    7:14 | drink worthy of the king. A wonderful thing occurred with regard 06Khor2    7:17 | will not hold me for a praetor, the Dziwnakan were guardians 06Khor2    8:6 | and fertile northeastern region Aṙan, a man famous and outstanding in 06Khor2    8:15 | of the west he appointed a man called Turk’, who was 06Khor2    8:15 | was deformed, tall, monstrous, with a squashed nose, deep-sunk sockets 06Khor2    8:15 | because of his great ugliness, a man of gigantic size and 06Khor2    8:19 | them at them. And not a few ships sank because of 06Khor2    8:24 | stories tell. But he was a brave man 06Khor2    8:25 | He was appointed with a few men to guard the 06Khor2    8:30 | He found a man, a Mokats’i from the 06Khor2    8:30 | He found a man, a Mokats’i from the province of 06Khor2    8:33 | After all this he built a temple in Armavir and erected 06Khor2    8:42 | them all the villages with a supplement from the special income 06Khor2    8:43 | dearly. For he was truly a spirited lad, strong of limb 06Khor2    8:44 | in the future, it was a rule among the Arsacids that 06Khor2    9:2 | over Armenia for thirteen years. A zealous follower of his father’s 06Khor2    9:2 | war against Pontus, he left a monument on the shore of 06Khor2    9:3 | For a long time the inhabitants of 06Khor2    9:3 | Pontus honored this column as a work of the gods 06Khor2    9:5 | In his days there was a great tumult in the zone 06Khor2    9:5 | our land and settled for a long time below Koi in 06Khor2    10:5 | And as a closer witness the Ecclesiastical History 06Khor2    10:5 | of Eusebius of Caesarea is a guarantee, which our blessed teacher 06Khor2    11:3 | for he was a proud man and warlike, who 06Khor2    11:4 | son Tigran for instruction to a youth called Varazh, son of 06Khor2    11:4 | from the seed of Gaṙnik, a descendant of Geḷam, for he 06Khor2    11:4 | of Geḷam, for he was a youth famous for his prowess 06Khor2    11:6 | he gave as wife to a certain Mithridates, great bdeashkh of 06Khor2    12:2 | the east and north, such a great one that he did 06Khor2    12:2 | ordered each man to leave a stone to form a cairn 06Khor2    12:2 | leave a stone to form a cairn as an indication of 06Khor2    12:8 | say from what cause arose a fearful turmoil, and the innumerable 06Khor2    13:10 | ordered to be placed in a cauldron 06Khor2    13:15 | that one should not call a man’s fate happy until his 06Khor2    13:19 | Locrians surrendered, the Bithynians were a part of his forces; all 06Khor2    13:20 | A short time later his disasters 06Khor2    13:20 | and alone escaped alive by a hair’s breadth 06Khor2    14:5 | care of Anatolia; and leaving a numerous army with him, he 06Khor2    14:17 | For he had heard a report that a certain brigand 06Khor2    14:17 | had heard a report that a certain brigand called Vaykun was 06Khor2    14:17 | brigand called Vaykun was causing a tumult in Armenia, holding the 06Khor2    15:2 | arrived in Asia Minor with a large army and sent his 06Khor2    15:6 | his son Mithridates, and put a garrison in the city. But 06Khor2    16:4 | He made a secret accord with Tigran and 06Khor2    17:3 | with all his army in a battle with Tigran 06Khor2    18:5 | From him he received as a principality the city of Perge 06Khor2    18:5 | and on Caesar’s orders was a useful ally to Antipater, Herod’s 06Khor2    18:6 | built up Mazhak to be a more spacious city with magnificent 06Khor2    19:5 | He was opposed by a certain Pacorus, whose father had 06Khor2    19:5 | Syria, while he himself was a relative of Antigonus of the 06Khor2    19:6 | five hundred beautiful women and a thousand talents of gold if 06Khor2    19:8 | He sent a certain Gnel, who was the 06Khor2    19:15 | accord struck his head against a stone; a doctor was sent 06Khor2    19:15 | his head against a stone; a doctor was sent by Antigonus 06Khor2    21:3 | there with the passion of a sensuous man, burning with desire 06Khor2    21:4 | grandson of Ptolemy Cleopater, and a dear friend of Herod’s. For 06Khor2    22:3 | so that they would have a more honorable and royal position 06Khor2    22:4 | valor, or good repute, truly a servant and slave to his 06Khor2    23:2 | Antony roared like a wild lion, especially envenomed by 06Khor2    23:5 | gave Artavazd, Tigran’s son, as a gift to Cleopatra with many 06Khor2    24:4 | Persia, to his son Arshavir, a small child and a minor 06Khor2    24:4 | Arshavir, a small child and a minor, there was no one 06Khor2    24:4 | He parleyed with them for a peace treaty, giving tribute from 06Khor2    24:7 | saying that he had promised a ransom of a hundred talents 06Khor2    24:7 | had promised a ransom of a hundred talents; and since he 06Khor2    24:8 | Therefore Arsham fixed a set term for him 06Khor2    24:15 | he would be hung on a cross and his family would 06Khor2    25:2 | After this there occurred a dissension between Herod, king of 06Khor2    25:4 | He asked Arsham for a multitude of unskilled workers to 06Khor2    25:8 | public squares of Antioch over a length of twenty stadia, and 06Khor2    26:5 | For a command went out from Augustus 06Khor2    26:5 | said in Luke’s gospel [Luke 2:1], that a census should be made throughout 06Khor2    26:7 | same days there took place a quarrel between Abgar and Herod 06Khor2    26:8 | not accept this, Herod sought a pretext for war against him 06Khor2    26:9 | of Thracians and Germans on a foray for plunder into Persia 06Khor2    26:12 | He took a great army, marched to Mesopotamia 06Khor2    27:1 | the city of Edessa and a brief mention of the family 06Khor2    27:4 | Then he built a city on the site of 06Khor2    27:8 | revolt did not succeed, for a quarrel arose among his kinsmen 06Khor2    28:4 | had had three sons and a daughter: the first was this 06Khor2    30:6 | saying: “These wonders are not a man’s but God’s. For there 06Khor2    30:7 | to cure him, he had a letter of supplication taken to 06Khor2    31:6 | harm you. But I have a small and pleasant city, and 06Khor2    31:9 | time but honored him with a letter, which ran as follows 06Khor2    33:6 | happened that when Thaddaeus entered, a marvelous vision appeared to Abgar 06Khor2    33:10 | also the gout of Abdiu, a noble of the city and 06Khor2    33:12 | The apostle Thaddaeus baptized a certain tiara maker and silk 06Khor2    33:14 | Abgar was emboldened to write a letter to the Emperor Tiberius 06Khor2    33:19 | that these miracles are not a mere man’s but God’s 06Khor2    33:29 | But because the Romans have a custom not to recognize a 06Khor2    33:29 | a custom not to recognize a god by the emperor’s command 06Khor2    33:31 | and worship, when I have a respite from the war with 06Khor2    33:32 | AGAIN ABGAR WRITES A LETTER TO TIBERIUS 06Khor2    33:38 | Abgar wrote this and placed a copy of the letter in 06Khor2    33:43 | him,’ he was not a doctor with human skill but 06Khor2    33:43 | doctor with human skill but a disciple of the son of 06Khor2    34:7 | he should make for him a tiara of silk embroidered with 06Khor2    34:8 | My hands will not make a tiara for an unworthy head 06Khor2    34:9 | cut off his feet with a sword 06Khor2    34:14 | is narrated by some that a certain apostle Simon was martyred 06Khor2    35:4 | For he had a marble pillar set up in 06Khor2    35:5 | Immediately a message came from the inhabitants 06Khor2    35:5 | city to Sanatruk, asking for a pact that provided he would 06Khor2    35:8 | treasures in Egypt, she bought a great quantity of wheat and 06Khor2    36:3 | more magnificently, fortifying it with a double wall and outwork. In 06Khor2    36:3 | the city he set up a statue of himself holding a 06Khor2    36:3 | a statue of himself holding a coin in his hand, which 06Khor2    36:5 | in winter when she encountered a snowstorm in the mountains of 06Khor2    36:7 | They tell a fable about this to the 06Khor2    36:7 | this to the effect that a marvelous white animal was sent 06Khor2    36:8 | matter it happened like this: a white dog, sent out to 06Khor2    37:3 | for a certain Eruand, son of an 06Khor2    37:5 | A certain woman of the Arsacid 06Khor2    37:13 | with his one wife and a few men went out to 06Khor2    37:14 | Therefore he, Smbat, wandered for a long time on foot over 06Khor2    37:15 | And because Smbat was a valiant man and well known 06Khor2    38:5 | Median child and is making a mockery 06Khor2    38:6 | bringing up the son of a Mede in opposition to me 06Khor2    38:11 | Roman governors restored Edessa in a grand manner and established their 06Khor2    39:2 | River Araxes had shifted to a distance, and in the long 06Khor2    39:3 | by this and also seeking a stronger site, Eruand moved the 06Khor2    39:3 | moved the court westward to a rocky hill around which flowed 06Khor2    39:6 | It was, they say, a double stair, so that the 06Khor2    40:2 | the River Akhurean, he built a smaller city similar to his 06Khor2    41:2 | He also planted a great forest of fir trees 06Khor2    42:5 | A multitude of vineyards resembled the 06Khor2    42:7 | with its high banks resembled a mouth with matching lips 06Khor2    42:8 | heights of the royal residence, a truly fertile and majestic estate 06Khor2    42:11 | this is either false and a fable or else he had 06Khor2    43:2 | king to give him as a gift whatever he might ask 06Khor2    43:5 | this and gave to Smbat a part of the Assyrian army 06Khor2    44:2 | the Persian king had gathered a great force under Smbat to 06Khor2    44:4 | was descended from Azhdahak, with a force of infantry 06Khor2    46:3 | the Muratsean, for he was a valiant man and the lord 06Khor2    46:6 | But Artashēs sent a message to Argam, prince of 06Khor2    46:12 | of their lives had made a pact with Eruand to kill 06Khor2    46:13 | his face cut off by a sword. He gained the victory 06Khor2    46:13 | the victory but died as a consequence 06Khor2    46:20 | and to Smbat, calling him a Mede 06Khor2    46:22 | pursued Eruand at night with a small troop, guarded the city 06Khor2    46:24 | struck off Eruand’s head with a saber, scattering his brains over 06Khor2    46:24 | over the floor. From such a blow he died, having held 06Khor2    47:4 | rank that he had promised, a crown decorated with sapphires, rings 06Khor2    47:4 | sapphires, rings for both ears, a red slipper for the one 06Khor2    47:4 | foot, the right to have a golden spoon and fork and 06Khor2    47:6 | face was cut off by a sword for the cause of 06Khor2    47:7 | for Smbat; for he was a confidant of Eruand’s, and for 06Khor2    48:3 | Smbat seized him and ordered a millstone to be hung around 06Khor2    48:3 | that he be thrown into a whirlpool of the river 06Khor2    48:4 | of Artashēs, the disciple of a certain magus who interpreted dreams 06Khor2    48:6 | from his own treasures, as a gift of thanks to a 06Khor2    48:6 | a gift of thanks to a father and supporter 06Khor2    48:9 | the emperor’s tax collectors and a powerful army arrived at the 06Khor2    49:4 | the hill he built there a city, which he called after 06Khor2    49:5 | labor. He erected in it a temple and transferred to it 06Khor2    50:2 | out over our land in a great host 06Khor2    50:4 | nation of the Alans gave a little ground, passed over the 06Khor2    50:5 | ask. He promised to make a sworn and lasting treaty that 06Khor2    50:6 | bank of the river onto a large hillock and through interpreters 06Khor2    50:8 | marry the Alan princess, make a treaty and pact with that 06Khor2    50:10 | will the brave Artashēs give a thousands of thousands and a 06Khor2    50:10 | a thousands of thousands and a myriad myriads in return for 06Khor2    50:11 | way: Noble King Artashēs mounted a beautiful black horse, and taking 06Khor2    50:11 | beautiful black horse, and taking a strap of red leather with 06Khor2    50:11 | and crossing the river like a swift-winged eagle and throwing 06Khor2    50:15 | their fables about the wedding: A shower of gold rained down 06Khor2    50:16 | door of the palace at a marriage and scattering gold coins 06Khor2    51:2 | maturity he proved to be a valiant man, vainglorious and proud 06Khor2    51:4 | After this Artashēs went to a banquet of Argam’s; on the 06Khor2    51:4 | Argam’s; on the pretext of a suspicion that a plot was 06Khor2    51:4 | pretext of a suspicion that a plot was planned against the 06Khor2    51:4 | king, the king’s son raised a tumult and at the very 06Khor2    51:5 | back his son Mazhan with a large force, ordering him to 06Khor2    51:5 | her beauty and carriage, as a concubine for Artashēs 06Khor2    51:9 | of them survived, save only a few insignificant and lesser persons 06Khor2    52:2 | of his hair. He had a small blood mark in his 06Khor2    52:2 | in all things and had a gift for success in battle 06Khor2    52:4 | someone else was ruling as a tyrant over the land of 06Khor2    53:6 | Therefore as a just reward for his sendees 06Khor2    53:11 | wives, therefore Artashēs made Vroyr, a wise and erudite man, hazarapet 06Khor2    53:13 | Zareh was a boastful man, expert in hunting 06Khor2    53:13 | negligent. When the Georgian king, a certain K’ardzam, became aware of 06Khor2    54:5 | directed his battle line like a young man and pursuing the 06Khor2    54:6 | in their fables, they say a certain Domet came - that is 06Khor2    55:5 | be paid to you without a struggle 06Khor2    56:3 | had fitted four-sided obelisks, a little higher than the ground 06Khor2    57:3 | by origin Jewish, descended from a certain Manue, whose son was 06Khor2    57:5 | Hamadan, they were promoted to a position of honor 06Khor2    58:2 | with her, were established as a family and principality of Armenia 06Khor2    58:2 | became related by marriage to a certain warrior of the colony 06Khor2    60:2 | Ariston of Pella gives a beautiful account of the death 06Khor2    60:3 | Rufus under the leadership of a certain brigand called Bar K’oba 06Khor2    60:3 | K’oba, that is “son of a star,” who was an evildoer 06Khor2    60:3 | who was an evildoer and a murderer - but because of his 06Khor2    60:6 | rebels in the siege of a small town near Jerusalem. Therefore 06Khor2    60:6 | not see Jerusalem even from a great distance 06Khor2    60:8 | and Christians, whose bishop was a certain Mark 06Khor2    60:9 | At that time he sent a powerful army to the regions 06Khor2    60:9 | met Artashēs in Media in a place called Sohund 06Khor2    60:10 | the town of Bakurakert. And a certain Abeḷoy, leader of the 06Khor2    60:10 | Artemis to seek healing and a long life from the idols 06Khor2    60:12 | and faithful servants; and what a multifarious display they made in 06Khor2    60:12 | honor of the corpse in a civilized fashion and not as 06Khor2    60:13 | bier were his sons and a host of his kinsmen, and 06Khor2    61:3 | A few days after his accession 06Khor2    61:3 | his horse and fell into a great pit and was swallowed 06Khor2    61:3 | and was swallowed up without a trace 06Khor2    61:6 | that he is imprisoned in a cave, bound in iron chains 06Khor2    61:9 | say that at his birth a misfortune befell him. It was 06Khor2    61:9 | descendants of Azhdahak had set a spell upon him, and therefore 06Khor2    61:10 | the child Artavazd and put a dev in his place 06Khor2    62:4 | through the air. When Datakē, a prince of the Bznunik’, asked 06Khor2    62:9 | his days, they say, lived a young man of the Andzavats’i 06Khor2    62:11 | they saw that he was a select man and moderate in 06Khor2    62:12 | him Druasp. The latter was a Persian friend of his who 06Khor2    62:14 | one years and died on a journey, overwhelmed by northern snow 06Khor2    63:2 | married his daughter Eraneak to a certain Trdat of the Bagratuni 06Khor2    63:2 | daughter of the valiant Smbat, a spirited and powerful man, short 06Khor2    63:3 | and complaining, lamenting that she, a beautiful woman, lived with an 06Khor2    63:3 | noble family she lived with a man of ignoble origin 06Khor2    63:6 | of Siunik’, invited him to a banquet. When they had become 06Khor2    63:6 | merry with wine, Trdat saw a woman who was very beautiful 06Khor2    63:9 | But Trdat stood up, took a vase of flowers as a 06Khor2    63:9 | a vase of flowers as a weapon, and drove the guests 06Khor2    63:10 | There one could see a new Odysseus slaughtering the suitors 06Khor2    64:2 | king of Persia. He enjoyed a long life of forty-two 06Khor2    64:2 | that he was captured by a Greek maiden at the time 06Khor2    64:4 | And he was captured by a princess who ruled those lands 06Khor2    64:5 | in marriage the maiden Ṙop’i, a relative of his. But when 06Khor2    64:11 | whole great reliable labor into a purposeless and superfluous work, for 06Khor2    65:1 | surrounding of Nor K’aḷak’ with a wall, the war against the 06Khor2    65:3 | birth on the road into a great town; this was where 06Khor2    65:4 | in the fables: Vardgēs as a child left the province of 06Khor2    65:5 | Jewish captives, and it became a commercial town 06Khor2    65:6 | this Vaḷarsh surrounded it with a wall and strong ramparts and 06Khor2    65:9 | the leadership of their king, a certain Vnasep Surhap, they crossed 06Khor2    65:10 | Vaḷarsh opposed them with a great force of warlike soldiers 06Khor2    65:10 | the plain. Pursuing them for a long distance, he pushed them 06Khor2    65:13 | their active men, and as a token of his own authority 06Khor2    65:13 | own authority he set up a stele with an inscription in 06Khor2    66:3 | for he became famous as a historian in the days of 06Khor2    66:3 | Antoninus. At first, he was a disciple of the sect of 06Khor2    66:4 | was bold enough to write a letter to Antoninus, and he 06Khor2    66:7 | Here later Vaḷarsh established a popular festival at the beginning 06Khor2    67:3 | and his relatives and gives a summary account of the death 06Khor2    67:3 | of Persia and Assyria in a raid for plunder 06Khor2    67:5 | fashion and turned it into a desert 06Khor2    67:6 | Pahlav and honor you with a crown 06Khor2    67:8 | although Agathangelos has thus given a brief account of these events 06Khor2    67:8 | from the beginning and giving a true account in full detail 06Khor2    68:8 | Arshavir had three sons and a daughter, as I said earlier 06Khor2    68:10 | And Abgar established between them a covenant and treaty that Artashēs 06Khor2    70:2 | the Greek language and wrote a history of the deeds of 06Khor2    70:3 | He also translated a book “the History of the 06Khor2    70:3 | the first kings,” composed by a fellow captive of his, Barsuma 06Khor2    72:3 | helped him by means of a letter ordering that he be 06Khor2    72:5 | Having acquired such a multitude of troops he marched 06Khor2    72:5 | other lands where he had a royal residence 06Khor2    73:2 | save for one youth whom a friend of his house, Burz 06Khor2    73:5 | power from each other in a brief period: the emperors Decius 06Khor2    74:6 | as if expelling him as a fugitive to Assyria. They drove 06Khor2    74:7 | of the Karenean, he sent a force to Anak’s assistance 06Khor2    74:8 | the province called Artaz, to a plain where the relics of 06Khor2    74:9 | Here I repeat a story of the wonderful old 06Khor2    75:2 | of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was a marvelous scholar who in his 06Khor2    75:3 | composed many treatises, among them a history of the persecutions of 06Khor2    75:10 | antiquarians, we have given you a faithful account 06Khor2    76:4 | other in quick succession. Within a few months there reigned the 06Khor2    76:5 | country and turned it into a wilderness 06Khor2    77:3 | their fortified places - except for a certain noble called Awtay from 06Khor2    77:3 | Ani, as if hidden in a tranquil lair 06Khor2    77:4 | Artashir organized Armenia in a splendid fashion and reestablished its 06Khor2    78:5 | But a certain Tachat, who was from 06Khor2    78:5 | descended from Gushar Haykazn, abducted a beautiful maiden from among Artavazd’s 06Khor2    79:2 | the use of arms, and a willing pupil of other military 06Khor2    79:2 | who used to win by a neck grip, and also Cerasos 06Khor2    79:2 | twisted, and threw them with a crash 06Khor2    79:3 | And wishing to drive a chariot in the races of 06Khor2    79:4 | against the Goths there was a great famine. Finding no stores 06Khor2    79:7 | on his side, gave battle a second time to the Roman 06Khor2    80:1 | A brief exposition of the birth 06Khor2    80:1 | of the bishop Artit’es concerning a question of the hermit Mark 06Khor2    80:2 | A certain Persian, not one of 06Khor2    80:3 | Having married a Christian wife called Sophy, the 06Khor2    80:3 | called Sophy, the sister of a certain magnate named Euthalius, he 06Khor2    80:7 | when the child reached maturity, a certain Christian called David married 06Khor2    80:8 | with the younger child entered a convent and became a nun 06Khor2    80:8 | entered a convent and became a nun. When this child reached 06Khor2    80:8 | child reached maturity, he joined a hermit called Nichomachus 06Khor2    80:9 | his tutors and later led a secular life and married 06Khor2    81:3 | family from the northeast, from a valiant and noble land foremost 06Khor2    81:4 | the year of Artashir’s death a certain Arbok Chen-bakur, which 06Khor2    81:15 | However, he gave his entourage a place in which to settle 06Khor2    81:15 | in which to settle and a stipend for food; he changed 06Khor2    82:2 | without chronology, therefore we made a detailed investigation and found that 06Khor2    82:2 | that he came here with a large army 06Khor2    82:4 | with great constancy. He was a just and persevering man, reliable 06Khor2    82:5 | Similarly his protégée Khosrovidukht was a modest maiden, like a nun 06Khor2    82:5 | was a modest maiden, like a nun, and did not at 06Khor2    83:4 | From her was born a son Khosrov, who did not 06Khor2    83:5 | from Maximian’s daughter but from a prostitute, Helen 06Khor2    83:8 | to him in his sleep a cross of stars from heaven 06Khor2    83:11 | of demons, bade him slaughter a great number of children in 06Khor2    83:11 | great number of children in a basin and to wash himself 06Khor2    83:13 | his recompense from God: in a vision he received a command 06Khor2    83:13 | in a vision he received a command from the apostles to 06Khor2    84:2 | advance on Armenia, he appointed a time for his own arrival 06Khor2    84:10 | and he received him with a sworn oath. But he did 06Khor2    84:11 | him that he was truly a sincere ally until he ordered 06Khor2    84:15 | promised, and he made him a prince in the place of 06Khor2    85:2 | into two, assailing them like a giant 06Khor2    85:3 | rolled in the dust. Like a net full of fish emptied 06Khor2    85:4 | Drawing from his horse’s armor a strap of sinew wound around 06Khor2    85:5 | draw it to himself with a violent pull. He agilely wielded 06Khor2    85:6 | cut in half by such a fearsome arm, turned in flight 06Khor2    86:2 | A certain woman called Nunē, one 06Khor2    86:6 | enveloped, which became for him a cause of eternal light. In 06Khor2    86:9 | She received a command to destroy the idols 06Khor2    86:9 | the Lord would grant them a pastor as guide 06Khor2    86:11 | city, separated from it by a very small river 06Khor2    86:13 | to the hill and saw a piece of hewn wood, no 06Khor2    86:13 | work of craftsmen, more than a few despised it on the 06Khor2    86:14 | their stumbling, sent from heaven a pillar of cloud, and the 06Khor2    86:14 | the mountain was filled with a sweet odor, and there was 06Khor2    86:14 | was heard the sound of a host singing psalms exceedingly sweetly 06Khor2    86:14 | sweetly, and there shone out a light in the form of 06Khor2    86:14 | light in the form of a cross, the same in shape 06Khor2    86:16 | around without pomp or excess, a stranger to the world and 06Khor2    86:16 | truly, crucified, making this world a practice for death, by her 06Khor2    86:16 | for death, by her words a witness to the Word of 06Khor2    87:3 | of the Persian empire in a year-long expedition 06Khor2    87:6 | command of the army with a view to making war against 06Khor2    87:7 | He was a valiant man, wonderfully adept at 06Khor2    87:11 | head with an axe, and a part of the bone of 06Khor2    87:13 | begged his victor Constantine for a treaty and the establishment of 06Khor2    87:13 | the five nails through Juda, a Jew, who later became bishop 06Khor2    88:2 | purple and the crown of a Caesar, bestowed on him the 06Khor2    88:4 | faith, and second to be a rebel with regard to his 06Khor2    88:7 | love, he feared him as a real enemy, for he knew 06Khor2    88:11 | ordered to do so in a prophetic dream. He constructed there 06Khor2    88:12 | of any great king, save a few buildings like those of 06Khor2    89:2 | Arius of Alexandria who taught a wicked heresy: that the Son 06Khor2    89:3 | Therefore a command was promulgated by the 06Khor2    89:3 | by the Emperor Constantine that a council of many bishops should 06Khor2    89:8 | account of his name as a confessor, as indeed they so 06Khor2    89:9 | in their place Aristakēs with a copy of the true confession 06Khor2    90:4 | Gregory was delighted and added a few chapters of his own 06Khor2    90:11 | his sister Khosrovidukht, he built a shaded residence with towers and 06Khor2    91:3 | the mountains and solitude and a secluded life with tranquility of 06Khor2    91:5 | There was a certain woman, Manē by name 06Khor2    91:10 | Truly he was a spiritual sword, according to the 06Khor2    91:17 | they become the object of a cult to the half-converted 06Khor2    91:18 | established in these regions, after a long time Saint Gregory’s relics 06Khor2    91:18 | Gregory’s relics were revealed to a certain ascetic called Gaṙnik, who 06Khor2    91:19 | is clear to all, was a Parthian by origin, from the 06Khor2    91:19 | from the province of Pahlav, a descendant of the reigning Arsacid 06Khor2    91:19 | he arose for us as a true dawn, a spiritual sun 06Khor2    91:19 | us as a true dawn, a spiritual sun and divine ray 06Khor2    91:19 | blessing and spiritual prosperity, truly a divine palm tree planted in 06Khor2    92:1 | death of King Trdat, including a reproach in the form of 06Khor2    92:1 | reproach in the form of a lament 06Khor2    92:8 | earthly crown and ran after a heavenly one, quickly reaching the 06Khor2    92:8 | living in mountain caves as a hermit 06Khor2    92:11 | not agree they gave him a draught, as once in old 06Khor2    92:23 | who has prepared for us a house or lodging 06Khor2    92:26 | Wherefore their speech is a source of amazement and horrible 06Khor2    92:28 | their loquacity flow as from a fountain, as one of the 06Khor2    92:32 | For having made him drink a mortal poison, they were deprived 06Khor3    1:2 | records permit, we have given a faithful account of events from 06Khor3    1:3 | in our own times, or a little earlier, by composing a 06Khor3    1:3 | a little earlier, by composing a third book dealing with events 06Khor3    2:3 | inhabitants of that mountain devised a plot at the instigation of 06Khor3    3:2 | energy the blessed Trdat waged a campaign for the faith and 06Khor3    3:5 | confidence, in the company of a certain Sanatruk of his own 06Khor3    3:6 | When he arrived, he was a model of integrity and behaved 06Khor3    4:4 | of Constantine, with presents and a letter, which ran as follows 06Khor3    5:1 | A copy of the Armenians’ letter 06Khor3    5:6 | Antiochus, his palace prefect, with a strong army, and purple robes 06Khor3    5:6 | army, and purple robes, and a crown, and a letter, which 06Khor3    5:6 | robes, and a crown, and a letter, which ran as follows 06Khor3    6:6 | not approximate the stature of a warrior - took with him Mihran 06Khor3    7:6 | Climbing a certain mountain from which the 06Khor3    7:7 | the irrigated province turned into a salt marsh [cf. Ps. 106:34], the sky overhead 06Khor3    8:5 | also transferred the court to a spot above the forest and 06Khor3    8:5 | above the forest and built a shady palace. The place is 06Khor3    9:2 | incursion into our country with a great host, about twenty thousand 06Khor3    9:5 | The commander of their lancers, a fearsome armed giant completely enveloped 06Khor3    9:6 | when they struck him with a lance the felt turned it 06Khor3    9:9 | Such a disaster put the enemy to 06Khor3    9:10 | land of Tsop’k’ he was a faithful and unjealous witness to 06Khor3    9:11 | spontaneously and boldly proved himself a hero 06Khor3    10:6 | gone to the emperor, gathered a great army under his brother 06Khor3    11:3 | control of our land, making a treaty with the Persians and 06Khor3    11:3 | tribute to the Greeks and a special tribute to the Persians 06Khor3    11:5 | if he had seen with a prophetic eye that after a 06Khor3    11:5 | a prophetic eye that after a long time his father’s relics 06Khor3    11:6 | year of Tiran; he was a true follower of the virtues 06Khor3    12:4 | terms and made peace for a few years 06Khor3    12:5 | Constantius returned from Persia, after a long illness he died in 06Khor3    13:4 | the impious Julian across with a host of cavalry, and he 06Khor3    14:4 | him to be beaten for a long time with thongs of 06Khor3    14:5 | priest Daniel, who had been a disciple and servant of Saint 06Khor3    15:3 | of the man who casts a stumbling block in the way 06Khor3    15:5 | his arrival, bringing to Tiran a letter, which ran as follows 06Khor3    16:2 | Armenian princes sought from Tiran a worthy man to be elevated 06Khor3    16:3 | overtaken in those days by a most fearful death that would 06Khor3    16:3 | suitable for that position, save a young son of At’anagenēs’ called 06Khor3    16:3 | to marry the daughter of a great noble, Aspion 06Khor3    16:4 | from Gregory’s family, they elected a certain P’aṙnerseh from Ashtishat in 06Khor3    17:4 | to his presence by writing a letter in the following terms 06Khor3    18:4 | the sea he set up a column and placed a lion 06Khor3    18:4 | up a column and placed a lion on top with a 06Khor3    18:4 | a lion on top with a book under its feet. This 06Khor3    19:2 | In those times a disturbance was fomented by the 06Khor3    19:3 | was Valentinian, and he sent a force to Anatolia and expelled 06Khor3    19:4 | Then he sent a letter to our King Arshak 06Khor3    20:4 | Summoning a council of bishops in concert 06Khor3    20:8 | cater for their needs from a distance and the inmates would 06Khor3    20:9 | This he entrusted to a certain Khad, who was his 06Khor3    20:13 | like uncivilized barbarians but like a well-mannered civilized nation 06Khor3    21:2 | banditry, and he burned alive a certain Rodanus, the majordomo; for 06Khor3    21:2 | Rodanus had not restored to a widow the property he had 06Khor3    21:4 | that moment he was in a state of great anger he 06Khor3    21:4 | Theodosius should attack Armenia with a strong army 06Khor3    21:7 | And he brought as a wife for Arshak a maiden 06Khor3    21:7 | as a wife for Arshak a maiden called Olympias from the 06Khor3    21:8 | The emperor did a kindness to the young Gnel 06Khor3    21:9 | evil against him, waiting for a suitable 06Khor3    22:4 | Gnel took as his wife a certain P’aṙandzem of the Siuni 06Khor3    22:6 | Here Tirit’ found a pretext for calumny. Approaching the 06Khor3    23:2 | before him had caught such a multitude of beasts in a 06Khor3    23:2 | a multitude of beasts in a single hour 06Khor3    23:7 | we come, we may find a hunt worthy of kings 06Khor3    23:8 | his command he would have a pretext to arrest him on 06Khor3    23:9 | for the hunt and such a multitude of game, he was 06Khor3    24:4 | P’aṙandzem. From her was born a son who was called Pap 06Khor3    25:3 | with worthy presents to request a reconciliation 06Khor3    25:5 | go in person, but alleging a pretext he sent a small 06Khor3    25:5 | alleging a pretext he sent a small force to follow Shapuh 06Khor3    25:7 | jealous of his brother over a young concubine 06Khor3    25:10 | Vasak to pursue them with a numerous force and to kill 06Khor3    26:3 | The citizens opposed him with a force of levies, for Antiochus 06Khor3    26:5 | There was a fierce battle, and many Persians 06Khor3    26:6 | So Shapuh advanced, after writing a letter to them in the 06Khor3    27:2 | Arshak even more presumptuously undertook a senseless project 06Khor3    27:3 | of Mount Masis he built a town as a gathering place 06Khor3    27:3 | he built a town as a gathering place for criminals, and 06Khor3    27:4 | whole valley was filled with a sea of men; for trustees 06Khor3    27:12 | be carried in baskets to a stable, and arranged care and 06Khor3    27:12 | them. The spot later became a town and was called Ort’k’ 06Khor3    29:1 | nobles, and Pap’s going as a hostage to Byzantium 06Khor3    29:3 | throne. After returning victoriously from a very successful war against the 06Khor3    29:4 | But Arshak, coming with a Georgian force, gathered his few 06Khor3    29:6 | A fierce battle took place, and 06Khor3    29:11 | all the other nobles established a covenant that thenceforth the king 06Khor3    29:13 | him Nersēs the Great with a letter of Arshak’s, which ran 06Khor3    29:16 | some strength we have sent a marauding band into your Greek 06Khor3    29:16 | we have helped him with a small force 06Khor3    30:3 | exile Nersēs the Great as a deceiver and traitor to the 06Khor3    31:5 | the grounds that he had a quarrel with his uncle Nerseh 06Khor3    31:9 | had no success save in a single respect, for he was 06Khor3    31:9 | fastidious in his dress and a lover of horses. For this 06Khor3    31:10 | his ostentatious clothes; dressed in a hair shirt he traveled around 06Khor3    31:10 | shirt he traveled around on a donkey until the day of 06Khor3    32:2 | himself, as if crowned by a great victory, spent his days 06Khor3    32:9 | oppose them but hid, lest a rebellion of all the nobles 06Khor3    33:3 | Damascus and made it into a church, and did the same 06Khor3    33:4 | of God and created, and a servant and a minister, and 06Khor3    33:4 | created, and a servant and a minister, and a force and 06Khor3    33:4 | servant and a minister, and a force and not a personal 06Khor3    33:4 | and a force and not a personal being 06Khor3    34:2 | wars he sent against Arshak a certain Alanaozan Pahlavik, who was 06Khor3    34:2 | certain Alanaozan Pahlavik, who was a relative of Arshak’s, with a 06Khor3    34:2 | a relative of Arshak’s, with a powerful force 06Khor3    34:4 | anxious by this, Arshak sent a message to the leader of 06Khor3    34:5 | me to hide somewhere for a brief while until I catch 06Khor3    34:5 | blessings from me as from a close relative 06Khor3    35:8 | the same time there arrived a command from King Shapuh that 06Khor3    36:2 | death of Arshak, Shapuh gathered a large army under Mehrujan and 06Khor3    36:7 | Armenians did not yet have a script and the church services 06Khor3    36:9 | Arshak’s son, king and gathered a large army for him under 06Khor3    37:8 | them closely. And just as a storm blows the leaves from 06Khor3    37:9 | of the Greeks, as into a fortified city, and suffered no 06Khor3    37:10 | line with shields as with a wall 06Khor3    37:11 | could see as it were a wall: most of them, dressed 06Khor3    37:12 | compare to nothing other than a mountain of adamant descending to 06Khor3    37:13 | one could see them like a powerful river spreading out to 06Khor3    37:15 | the mountains like lightning from a great cloud. Out front the 06Khor3    37:15 | lost heart, and ours too a little for they were unable 06Khor3    37:16 | place under the shadow of a cloud, and a stiff breeze 06Khor3    37:16 | shadow of a cloud, and a stiff breeze blew from our 06Khor3    37:17 | was joined Spandarat Kamsarakan encountered a large detachment in which was 06Khor3    37:18 | he had been struck by a thunderbolt, and turning the detachment 06Khor3    37:21 | he was unable to make a quick escape with the fugitives 06Khor3    37:22 | in tents who had lit a fire and an iron spit 06Khor3    37:22 | This he heated, bent into a circle like a crown, and 06Khor3    37:22 | bent into a circle like a crown, and making it red 06Khor3    38:1 | How Pap gave Saint Nersēs a mortal poison to drink and 06Khor3    38:2 | peaceful, Nersēs the Great established a covenant between King Pap and 06Khor3    38:4 | in avarice but lived in a liberal fashion 06Khor3    38:5 | because he was debauched with a shameful passion for which he 06Khor3    38:5 | an evil eye and hatched a wicked plot. He was unable 06Khor3    38:5 | he secretly gave Saint Nersēs a deadly poison to drink and 06Khor3    39:2 | pressure sought out and found a member of the family and 06Khor3    39:3 | over quarters, which led to a battle; the emperor was victorious 06Khor3    39:4 | this, he thought that such a disturbance would last a long 06Khor3    39:4 | such a disturbance would last a long time so he scorned 06Khor3    39:6 | And by a stroke of luck he unexpectedly 06Khor3    39:6 | fought fiercely and put up a brave resistance. But the victorious 06Khor3    40:2 | Armenia in succession to Pap a certain Varazdat from the same 06Khor3    40:4 | emperor’s court and had become a noted champion - first by winning 06Khor3    40:5 | fig trees [cf. Isa. 28:4] blown down by a violent storm 06Khor3    40:7 | Euphrates by the bridge at a narrow point and threw down 06Khor3    40:8 | There one could see a new Achilles jumping over the 06Khor3    42:2 | Shapuh realized that Arcadius was a deceitful man, he made overtures 06Khor3    42:3 | Arcadius agreed to make a treaty, especially at the urging 06Khor3    42:4 | divide Mesopotamia and Armenia by a new boundary 06Khor3    42:5 | was better to rule over a smaller region and serve a 06Khor3    42:5 | a smaller region and serve a Christian king than to control 06Khor3    42:8 | not bear to live under a Persian ruler, they followed me 06Khor3    42:9 | Shapuh heard this he made a certain Khosrov from the same 06Khor3    42:12 | without shepherds or shepherds without a good overseer, we have therefore 06Khor3    42:12 | therefore made as your king a certain Khosrov of your own 06Khor3    43:2 | heard that Shapuh had appointed a Christian Arsacid king and when 06Khor3    43:4 | suggested that he, Sahak had a royal insignia left by his 06Khor3    43:5 | Then a false accusation was lodged against 06Khor3    43:7 | veil of deceit, waiting for a suitable day 06Khor3    44:6 | and it seemed to them a reasonable and enjoyable thing 06Khor3    45:3 | Samuel Mamikonean, a friend of Arshak’s, quickly gave 06Khor3    45:3 | Arshak’s, quickly gave pursuit with a powerful force and sent them 06Khor3    45:3 | had no way in save a narrow entrance at the side 06Khor3    45:3 | entrance at the side on a slope. In front of the 06Khor3    45:3 | to the cave there was a massive, vertical cliff, above which 06Khor3    45:3 | broke loose fell down in a fearfully violent rush, rolling ceaselessly 06Khor3    45:3 | and over; nowhere was there a foothold 06Khor3    45:5 | having informed Arshak, he ordered a box bound with iron to 06Khor3    46:6 | battle. Arshak himself fled with a few men 06Khor3    46:9 | of Armenia for two and a half years 06Khor3    47:2 | finding that the turmoil was a test for his patience, Mesrop 06Khor3    47:2 | longed for the life of a hermit. As someone has note 06Khor3    47:2 | hermit. As someone has note: “ A ship in trouble heads for 06Khor3    47:2 | trouble heads for port, and a continent soul seeks the desert 06Khor3    47:3 | the province of Goḷt’n, living a hermit’s life 06Khor3    48:2 | the Greeks had not set a king over them and considering 06Khor3    48:2 | it difficult to be without a leader, decided of their own 06Khor3    48:3 | this purpose they wrote him a letter in the following terms 06Khor3    48:6 | us these three conditions by a pact. First, not to remember 06Khor3    48:8 | Third, to find a way to disentangle us from 06Khor3    48:11 | Khosrov wrote a reply 06Khor3    48:20 | Mamikonean acquired Khosrov’s letter and a copy of the princes’ letter 06Khor3    49:3 | since Arcadius was fearful of a coalition of the Armenian princes 06Khor3    49:6 | the capital, monks who wore a hair shirt, a belt of 06Khor3    49:6 | who wore a hair shirt, a belt of iron, and no 06Khor3    49:8 | his hermitage, where they undertook a rigorous way of life and 06Khor3    50:2 | burst into anger, replied in a haughty and insolent fashion, and 06Khor3    50:4 | his own son Artashir with a large army to Armenia 06Khor3    50:7 | Leaving behind a powerful force, he himself hastened 06Khor3    50:10 | A fierce battle took place, and 06Khor3    50:10 | had him blown up like a wine skin and ordered him 06Khor3    51:2 | A few saints and famous men 06Khor3    51:2 | the male line. He had a daughter called Sahakanoysh who was 06Khor3    51:10 | observed in this way: when a new king came to the 06Khor3    51:11 | for many years and made a new census, they left out 06Khor3    51:16 | and was even more of a benefactor to you 06Khor3    52:3 | and organize it and make a reckoning of the governors of 06Khor3    52:4 | trouble in the matter of a secretary, for after Mesrop had 06Khor3    52:5 | So a certain priest named Habel approached 06Khor3    52:5 | adapt for the Armenian language a script that had been fashioned 06Khor3    52:5 | fashioned by the bishop Daniel, a relative of his 06Khor3    52:7 | take urgent steps in such a necessary matter 06Khor3    52:8 | Therefore he sent a man honored in our land 06Khor3    52:8 | enthusiastic for this matter, as a messenger to Habel 06Khor3    52:10 | studied them and had set a few young pupils to them 06Khor3    52:10 | syllables of Armenian words in a satisfactory way because the script 06Khor3    52:10 | way because the script was a foreign one 06Khor3    53:2 | passed on to Edessa to a certain Plato, a pagan rhetorician 06Khor3    53:2 | Edessa to a certain Plato, a pagan rhetorician and keeper of 06Khor3    53:5 | Samosata. Epiphanius had died, leaving a pupil called Rufinus, wonderfully skilled 06Khor3    53:5 | Greek calligraphy, who had become a hermit at Samosata 06Khor3    53:7 | And he saw not a dream in sleep, not a 06Khor3    53:7 | a dream in sleep, not a vision while awake, but in 06Khor3    53:7 | the eyes of his soul a right-hand writing on rock 06Khor3    53:8 | in his mind as in a vase 06Khor3    54:4 | grace given from above with a certain Jaḷay, a translator of 06Khor3    54:4 | above with a certain Jaḷay, a translator of the Greek and 06Khor3    54:7 | He summoned a certain Benjamin, a gifted translator 06Khor3    54:7 | He summoned a certain Benjamin, a gifted translator, whom the young 06Khor3    55:2 | Vṙamshapuh died after a reign of twenty-one years 06Khor3    55:2 | of twenty-one years, leaving a ten-year-old son called 06Khor3    55:6 | of the heathen” [Ps. 32:10], although for a time he had success 06Khor3    55:10 | Persian hero, if you are a man 06Khor3    55:13 | A second time Atom said to 06Khor3    55:13 | hero, behold your father is a god, why do you hesitate 06Khor3    55:16 | fire as if it were a meadow of flowers, freeing Shapuh 06Khor3    55:20 | I am the son of a king from the seed of 06Khor3    55:22 | once in the jollity of a banquet Khosrov Gardmanats’i, drunk with 06Khor3    55:22 | the presence of Shapuh, showed a lustful passion for a woman 06Khor3    55:22 | showed a lustful passion for a woman playing the lyre with 06Khor3    55:23 | royal servants daring to lay a hand on him, since they 06Khor3    56:3 | has father Yazkert died after a reign of eleven years 06Khor3    57:2 | but was not received in a suitably worthy fashion. Therefore, he 06Khor3    57:2 | emperor Theodosius in Byzantium with a letter, which ran as follows 06Khor3    57:12 | with the great emperor like a truly dear brother 06Khor3    57:17 | for your preparing for us a refuge. Therefore, I inform you 06Khor3    57:23 | And they returned with a letter as follows 06Khor3    57:29 | We have also ordered a city to be built in 06Khor3    57:29 | in Armenia to serve as a refuge for yourselves and our 06Khor3    57:30 | of your son-in-law, a general and have inscribed Mesrop 06Khor3    57:35 | your good renown among such a barbarous nation. Yet we do 06Khor3    58:3 | spot, as if invited by a divine summons. These they immediately 06Khor3    58:5 | hold the country, had proposed a treaty through Smbat the aspet 06Khor3    58:7 | enemies from enemies and by a just death the unjust death 06Khor3    58:9 | of Armenia to him without a Persian governor. He reigned for 06Khor3    59:2 | provinces, he decided to build a city in the province of 06Khor3    59:2 | in the province of Karin, a fertile land, rich in water 06Khor3    59:2 | their gentle course grow into a sea with the appearance of 06Khor3    59:2 | sea with the appearance of a marsh. In it are innumerable 06Khor3    59:3 | the marsh are canes and a multitude of reeds; the plains 06Khor3    59:4 | animals increase, they grow to a great size and strength, and 06Khor3    59:5 | the city. Surrounding it with a deep ditch, he set the 06Khor3    59:5 | foundations of the wall at a great depth; above it he 06Khor3    59:10 | the city with arms and a garrison and named it Theodosiopolis 06Khor3    60:8 | his disciples. At that time a certain Ardzil was king of 06Khor3    61:2 | as being the mother of a man and not the mother 06Khor3    61:3 | one born from her had a beginning he claimed, but was 06Khor3    61:3 | Sons, whereby the Trinity became a Quaternity 06Khor3    61:4 | which faces the sea. In a written statement Celestine of Rome 06Khor3    61:7 | translated and made with them a new version 06Khor3    62:1 | his journey for study, with a simile from the celestial system 06Khor3    62:3 | places and to remain for a while studying in Palestine 06Khor3    62:4 | of fruit and furnished with a natural wall by the Nile 06Khor3    62:5 | the lake. Their mingling provides a very healthy climate 06Khor3    62:9 | to Attica, where we stayed a while in Athens 06Khor3    63:3 | Sahak the Great they raised a complaint and invited him to 06Khor3    63:3 | own king, and in bringing a Persian as lord of this 06Khor3    63:5 | So we must endure for a while the man’s faults until 06Khor3    63:5 | we are able to arrange a solution with the Greek emperor 06Khor3    63:8 | For if it were before a Christian king that we denounced 06Khor3    63:9 | he is licentious. He is a fornicator, yet he is a 06Khor3    63:9 | a fornicator, yet he is a Christian. He is dissolute of 06Khor3    63:9 | impure of life, but not a fire worshipper. He is weak 06Khor3    63:10 | exchange my sick sheep for a healthy wild beast whose health 06Khor3    63:12 | king of Persia, Vṙam, with a certain Surmak of Artskē, an 06Khor3    64:2 | princes sought from the latter a denunciation of Artashir, but he 06Khor3    64:4 | So he adopted a seductive tone and note: “Since 06Khor3    64:4 | Vardan over the Armenians with a rank and dignity equal to 06Khor3    64:4 | dignity equal to that of a king 06Khor3    64:7 | had rendered his tongue into a murderous sword 06Khor3    64:9 | he sent them off with a Persian Marzban whose name was 06Khor3    64:10 | it was not more than a year before Surmak was expelled 06Khor3    64:11 | throne, and he gave them a Syrian, Brkisho 06Khor3    64:12 | For three years he led a dissolute and prodigal life, seizing 06Khor3    65:2 | ask the Persian king for a vicar: Vachē, lord of the 06Khor3    65:4 | so that he might be a rival and antipatriarch to Sahak 06Khor3    65:5 | he set free, leaving him a few villages from the same 06Khor3    65:7 | the Great stood up, adopting a modest and grave demeanor as 06Khor3    65:7 | for an oration, and with a diffident expression and an even 06Khor3    65:7 | deeds; he added to this a refutation of the senseless blasphemies 06Khor3    65:7 | their religion and finished with a marvelous exposition of the faith 06Khor3    65:8 | spoke so freely before such a king 06Khor3    65:10 | let him be counted in a lower rank among the other 06Khor3    65:11 | try to soften Vṙam like a persuasive charmer 06Khor3    65:14 | I consider you to be a man with compassion equal to 06Khor3    66:3 | despised. For although they endured a thousand evils from him, they 06Khor3    66:8 | appeared in sleep to him a long time before as a 06Khor3    66:8 | a long time before as a revelation of the future 06Khor3    67:4 | Then a mortal illness befell Sahak the 06Khor3    67:4 | the village called Blur, as a place very familiar to him 06Khor3    67:6 | Although he was born a mortal, he left an immortal 06Khor3    67:6 | life; and he led such a life that there was no 06Khor3    67:7 | him in majestic terms in a eulogy worthy of this holy 06Khor3    67:11 | were never able to find a place in his way of 06Khor3    67:14 | many trustworthy men, there shone a light like a ray in 06Khor3    67:14 | there shone a light like a ray in the form of 06Khor3    67:14 | ray in the form of a dim cross over the house 06Khor3    67:14 | faded or was visible to a few, but it was visible 06Khor3    67:15 | Then there arose a tumult in the crowd that 06Khor3    67:17 | He took Mesrop’s body with a worthy escort to his own 06Khor3    67:19 | Mesrop, his own disciple Joseph, a priest from Vayots’ dzor, from 06Khor3    67:19 | village of Khoḷots’im, succeeded as a locum-tenens to the archiepiscopal 06Khor3    68:4 | your rational flock pastured in a verdant place and by peaceful 06Khor3    68:4 | peaceful waters [cf. Ps. 22:2] nor gathered in a fold and protected from wolves 06Khor3    68:5 | best man were absent for a while, and you the bride 06Khor3    68:6 | tended your children [cf. Mal. 3:17] not like a brother-in-law but like 06Khor3    68:6 | brother-in-law but like a true father of the same 06Khor3    68:7 | there is no expectation of a return since he has been 06Khor3    68:12 | of Nabat succeeded him [cf. 3 Kings 12:16-21]. Not a lion [cf. 3 Kings 13:24] but the completion of 06Khor3    68:19 | of festivities I lament over a tomb and piteously sigh. I 06Khor3    68:23 | will express the delight of a father, in part exceeded by 06Khor3    68:24 | word and make of themselves a bad example in mocking us 06Khor3    68:25 | us with praise, and put a limit to talking and silence 06Khor3    68:27 | who irrigated justice and with a flood banished iniquity? Or myself 06Khor3    68:29 | Jeremiah, awake and lament like a prophet over the miseries we 07Seb1    7:1 | ruled over it. He undertook a terrible and dreadful plan, in 07Seb1    7:4 | faith, and putting on like a strong breast-plate zeal for 07Seb1    7:8 | were unexpectedly stirred, and in a moment of time defeated the 07Seb1    8:1 | of Persia there took place a suppression of all the privileges 07Seb1    8:2 | king Peroz sent against him a large army of Huns. He 07Seb1    8:3 | with thick darkness at noontime. A dreadful slaughter occurred on both 07Seb1    8:3 | defeated the Persian army with a massacre. After pursuing the fleeing 07Seb1    8:5 | was marching against him with a large army 07Seb1    8:7 | in the east. There was a terrible battle. They defeated and 07Seb1    8:7 | the Persian army, so not a single one of them escaped 07Seb1    8:8 | all sides. He also made a treaty with the Armenians, summoned 07Seb1    8:9 | Yard held the office for a short time, then died. After 07Seb1    8:11 | that time, before this event, a certain prince Vahan, prince of 07Seb1    8:12 | the city of Dvin; after a siege they destroyed it from 07Seb1    8:13 | But suddenly a great tumult fell on them 07Seb1    8:13 | built near the city, into a store-house. They (the Greeks 07Seb1    8:13 | fire and burned it. Therefore, a great tumult befell them 07Seb1    8:14 | and many elephants. There was a great battle on the plain 07Seb1    8:14 | the elephants. Mihran escaped with a few men, and they returned 07Seb1    8:15 | Khosrov, came in person with a host of fully armed troops 07Seb1    8:17 | the multitude of fugitives like a host of locusts; not many 07Seb1    8:18 | But the king with a few men escaped by the 07Seb1    8:20 | with the movpet-movpetan and a further host of the most 07Seb1    9:1 | the land, because he was a lover of peace and promoter 07Seb1    9:1 | the grounds that: ’I was a father to the whole country 07Seb1    9:1 | the whole country and not a master, and I cared for 07Seb1    9:3 | He built a city and named it Veh 07Seb1    9:3 | and Kalinikos, and seized in a raid the region of Cilicia 07Seb1    9:6 | Then after a few days he fell asleep 07Seb1    9:7 | some fought battles, others gained a victory and departed 07Seb1    9:8 | in that same year came a certain Vardan Vshnasp; but he 07Seb1    9:9 | of the Huns - and also a command from the king to 07Seb1    9:10 | Armenia and seized Angł by a false oath 07Seb1    9:11 | P’ilippos, lord of Siwnike, waged a battle at the city and 07Seb1    9:12 | as I said, and fought a great battle at Melitene in 07Seb1    9:13 | Kt’ni. In both he won a splendid victory. He stayed for 07Seb1    9:14 | came Varaz Vzur; he waged a battle in Vanand at the 07Seb1    9:15 | and Pahlaw aspet. He made a campaign in Shirakawan and was 07Seb1    9:16 | were defeated, and then gained a victory’. Returning from there he 07Seb1    10:4 | happened at that time that a certain Vahram Merhewandak, prince of 07Seb1    10:6 | king through his messengers, and a small part of the booty 07Seb1    10:6 | plunder of the expedition, as a token from these precious things 07Seb1    10:8 | Then instead of a letter of greeting he ordered 07Seb1    10:8 | letter of greeting he ordered a letter to be written in 07Seb1    10:8 | terms, which he despatched by a company of auxiliaries and royal 07Seb1    10:9 | forces and went off, taking a multitude of brave and warlike 07Seb1    10:10 | of Persia, Yovhan patrik and a Greek army were keeping the 07Seb1    10:11 | Ormizd the Persian king, not a little fear enveloped him. Summoning 07Seb1    10:13 | of that asparapet who was a noble of the house of 07Seb1    10:13 | Vstam, and Vndoy himself was a wise and prudent man valiant 07Seb1    10:14 | imprisoned with him. They despatched a trusted messenger with very fast 07Seb1    10:16 | an eagle. Since Khosrov was a young boy at the time 07Seb1    11:2 | Bznunik’ and to Arestawan; and a great part of the land 07Seb1    11:2 | of Tp’khis. Let us observe a pact of peace between us 07Seb1    11:3 | the east. He came with a large army and seized the 07Seb1    11:6 | P’iłipikos and had him bring a favourable response. He received an 07Seb1    11:6 | from him, and gave him a royal army in support: Yovhan 07Seb1    11:9 | and reached Atrpatakan. They encamped a little distance from each other 07Seb1    11:10 | Then Vahram wrote a letter to Musheł and the 07Seb1    11:17 | Then he wrote again a second letter 07Seb1    11:20 | us. I know you for a braggart. You do not have 07Seb1    11:21 | on high there will be a fearsome crashing and flashing; warriors 07Seb1    11:21 | alike. For if God wills, a fierce tempest will blow away 07Seb1    11:26 | different) directions, phalanx by phalanx, a multitude of camels and mules 07Seb1    11:27 | the Persian army collected not a little of the scattered treasure 07Seb1    12:1 | was distant from them by a day’s journey, encamped separately with 07Seb1    12:2 | there ever have been in a royal land someone who was 07Seb1    12:4 | escaped and fled. He is a brave man and may once 07Seb1    12:5 | captured him, but gave him a horse and arms and let 07Seb1    12:6 | might mean, because he was a young lad and immature. Nor 07Seb1    12:7 | the same time, he ordered a letter to be written, and 07Seb1    12:7 | ’Come promptly,’ he said, ’A very’ important matter has arisen 07Seb1    12:7 | be prepared, because he is a valiant man, and perhaps either 07Seb1    12:8 | the emperor.’ He gave a similar command to the door 07Seb1    12:10 | said to him: ’Is it a greeting of peace?’ The 07Seb1    12:10 | The messenger replied: ’It is a salutation and peace; and I 07Seb1    12:13 | not to proceed in such a great number, but to post 07Seb1    12:13 | himself to the king with a few men 07Seb1    12:15 | king’s presence thus attired.’ A suspicion fell into his heart 07Seb1    12:16 | my ancestors and forefathers as a companion to kings; and now 07Seb1    12:20 | wishes.’ For he was a youth, and the strength of 07Seb1    12:23 | tent, went outside, and sent a leading noble after him. He 07Seb1    12:28 | Then they prepared gifts - a large part of the booty 07Seb1    12:28 | of their sovereign, crowns and a diadem set with emeralds and 07Seb1    12:28 | set with emeralds and pearls, a great quantity of gold and 07Seb1    12:29 | gifts, they sent them with a messenger bringing the news, writing 07Seb1    12:29 | part of the booty as a treasure for their king, and 07Seb1    12:31 | about these events and sent a very powerful force after them 07Seb1    12:31 | them up, they let not a single one escape. And word 07Seb1    12:32 | received the gifts and sent a letter with profound thanks through 07Seb1    12:32 | letter with profound thanks through a messenger of his. He wrote 07Seb1    12:34 | in the Greek sector, and a few in the Persian. He 07Seb1    12:34 | Persian. He also gave over a large part of the land 07Seb1    13:1 | wives; one of these was a very beautiful Christian woman from 07Seb1    13:1 | the chief wife. She built a monastery and a church near 07Seb1    13:1 | She built a monastery and a church near the royal residence 07Seb1    13:2 | anything great or small against a Christian 07Seb1    13:3 | to Christianity were put to a martyr’s death in various places 07Seb1    13:4 | He gave a command, saying: ’Let none of 07Seb1    14:1 | the royal treasury, placed in a bronze container. The Persians called 07Seb1    14:3 | brought mules for it and a royal carriage, took the body 07Seb1    14:4 | that when they had gone a distance of three stades from 07Seb1    15:1 | of the Greeks, Maurice, ordered a letter of accusation to be 07Seb1    15:1 | and their troops: ’They are a perverse and disobedient race, he 07Seb1    16:0 | The auditor comes with a great treasure to attract the 07Seb1    16:4 | vindicated. Then king Khosrov ordered a letter to be written to 07Seb1    16:8 | them in that country with a few troops and departed: ’Until 07Seb1    17:1 | while he was staying at a spa to be cured of 07Seb1    17:4 | Since they did not find a ford, they were intending to 07Seb1    17:4 | intending to return, when unexpectedly a travelling priest encountered them. They 07Seb1    17:4 | and attacked them. There was a dreadful slaughter, but they managed 07Seb1    17:6 | am an old man and a sinner; I beg you grant 07Seb1    18:0 | time they are beaten in a great rout. The killing of 07Seb1    18:3 | great river Danube. There was a fierce war over the face 07Seb1    18:3 | Danube. They themselves promptly sent a messenger bearing news of the 07Seb1    18:4 | face to face, there was a great battle. They defeated the 07Seb1    18:5 | Musheł Mamikonean, bound him to a very high tree in the 07Seb1    18:5 | the forest, and killed him. A great number of Armenian nobles 07Seb1    19:1 | the Armenian churches fled to a foreign land. Many, disregarding the 07Seb1    20:5 | began to unite, and sought a way to extricate themselves from 07Seb1    20:8 | He was a man gigantic in stature and 07Seb1    20:8 | of solid body. He was a powerful warrior, who had demonstrated 07Seb1    20:9 | horse, grasping the branch of a tree he would hold it 07Seb1    20:11 | They released a bear against him. Now it 07Seb1    20:12 | The next time they released a bull against him. But he 07Seb1    20:12 | horns of the bull... raised a great shout ... and when the 07Seb1    20:13 | The third time they released a lion against him. It happened 07Seb1    20:13 | attacked him, he gained such a success from the Lord that 07Seb1    20:14 | the dead lion to rest a little. Then the queen fell 07Seb1    20:15 | to the royal feast. After a short time had passed, not 07Seb1    20:15 | them to be put on a ship and to be exiled 07Seb1    21:5 | should be cared for in a friendly way with all willingness 07Seb1    22:3 | the area of Ṙeyy on a raid he plundered all the 07Seb1    22:3 | was with him. There was a pitched battle between them in 07Seb1    23:1 | lord of the Vahewunik’, died a natural death. Mamak Mamikonean, sent 07Seb1    23:1 | of Dvin died after only a few days 07Seb1    23:2 | Stepanos Siwni had a dispute with his paternal uncle 07Seb1    23:2 | concerning the principality. Sahak wrote a writ of condemnation against him 07Seb1    24:4 | There was in that country a community deported from Armenia and 07Seb1    24:4 | order. There was also there a group of Kodrik’ who had 07Seb1    24:4 | own men; and furthermore not a few from the Greek empire 07Seb1    24:5 | over the Christians there shone a great light. They were confirmed 07Seb1    24:5 | write and speak their language. A certain presbyter among them who 07Seb1    25:1 | east, he attacked Asorestan with a large and powerful army in 07Seb1    25:1 | to right and left at a distance from him; and the 07Seb1    25:2 | in front of him with a few men, and dismounting from 07Seb1    25:2 | again. But he had laid a trap for him on the 07Seb1    25:4 | Smbat, marzpan of Gurkan, with a large force 07Seb1    25:5 | than two thousand. There was a battle at that place. They 07Seb1    26:0 | The discovery of a fragment of the Lord’s Cross 07Seb1    26:0 | of the Lord’s Cross through a vision 07Seb1    26:1 | before that battle took place a certain man had a dream 07Seb1    26:1 | place a certain man had a dream and became aware of 07Seb1    26:1 | it. His name was Yovsēp’. ’A man,’ he said, ’of 07Seb1    26:1 | came and said to me: “ A battle will take place in 07Seb1    26:1 | battle, and this will be a sign for you. You will 07Seb1    26:1 | for you. You will see a man fallen on to the 07Seb1    26:2 | bodies. He had with him a leather bag over his shoulder 07Seb1    26:3 | He saw that there was a silver box in it, and 07Seb1    26:3 | silver box in it, and a cross inside that, in which 07Seb1    26:3 | inside that, in which was a large fragment of the Lord’s 07Seb1    27:2 | it. He entrusted it to a certain blessed man, Mihru, whom 07Seb1    27:2 | of his own house as a reliable servant; he was from 07Seb1    27:3 | Then the king sent him a letter with much thanks, greatly 07Seb1    27:5 | his country, he then made a request concerning the supreme cathedra 07Seb1    27:5 | they might appoint to it a bishop as guardian of the 07Seb1    27:6 | them to bring it to a rapid conclusion 07Seb1    27:7 | fortress and the marzpan wrote a letter of complaint to the 07Seb1    28:0 | Armenian nobles who accompanied him. A small battalion of Persians is 07Seb1    28:1 | hall, he was seated on a rug and a pahlak 07Seb1    28:1 | seated on a rug and a pahlak 07Seb1    28:2 | Shum, robed him splendidly with a hat and robe of silk 07Seb1    28:2 | gold, exalted him tremendously with a collar set with gems, a 07Seb1    28:2 | a collar set with gems, a necklace, and silver cushions. He 07Seb1    28:5 | they attacked each other in a mutual assault. The K’ushan army 07Seb1    28:7 | the regions of the North. A host of [300,000] came to their 07Seb1    28:8 | komopolis, for the village had a strong wall encircling it 07Seb1    28:10 | commander of their force was a certain Persian prince named Datoyean 07Seb1    28:11 | returned to their camp. When a command came from the great 07Seb1    28:12 | came to Smbat and Datoyean, a certain senior noble whose name 07Seb1    28:13 | latter moved against him with a large armed force. They reached 07Seb1    28:14 | the king of K’ushans sent a message to Smbat, saying: ’What 07Seb1    28:14 | advantage is it that such a host enter into battle, or 07Seb1    28:14 | alone. I shall come as a champion from my side, and 07Seb1    28:16 | chain-mail from Bahl and a solid cuirass, was split by 07Seb1    28:16 | he powerfully struck him as a corpse to the ground and 07Seb1    28:17 | down. Then he returned with a great victory and much booty 07Seb1    28:18 | greatly rejoiced, and he ordered a large elephant to be decorated 07Seb1    28:18 | host. And he wrote him a letter of deep gratitude, summoning 07Seb1    29:1 | When he had approached within a day’s journey of the royal 07Seb1    29:1 | auxiliaries to meet him with a fine horse from the royal 07Seb1    29:3 | Khosrov, and after remaining there a short time he died in 07Seb1    29:3 | sepulcher, and placed it in a tomb in the village of 07Seb1    30:1 | his further rebellion? He was a great patrik, for which reason 07Seb1    30:1 | and those accompanying him with a worthy and appropriate reception. He 07Seb1    30:2 | to the coast, and encountering a ship, he said to the 07Seb1    30:3 | or ten places he fought a battle on the way and 07Seb1    30:5 | king, who received him in a friendly way, greatly honoured him 07Seb1    30:5 | gave him treasures, and authorized a stipend from the treasury 07Seb1    30:8 | that task. Meanwhile news of a great disturbance arrived, and Priscus 07Seb1    31:1 | and installed as their king a certain man called Phocas. They 07Seb1    31:2 | enemy. The emperor Maurice had a son named T’ēodos. A rumour 07Seb1    31:2 | had a son named T’ēodos. A rumour spread over the whole 07Seb1    31:4 | the royal capital. He sent a certain prince Bonos with an 07Seb1    31:6 | he assembled troops and appointed a certain great prince Juan Veh 07Seb1    31:8 | But Nersēs dressed a youth in royal garb, placed 07Seb1    31:8 | youth in royal garb, placed a crown on his head, and 07Seb1    31:9 | honour. He besieged Dara for a year and a half. They 07Seb1    31:9 | Dara for a year and a half. They mined the foundations 07Seb1    32:0 | Shirak and the Greek defeat. A third battle in Tsałkotn. T’ēodos 07Seb1    32:2 | Persian army attacked them and a battle took place on the 07Seb1    32:4 | Shirakawan. There they stayed for a few days, being themselves alarmed 07Seb1    32:4 | terrified of an assault by a foreign enemy 07Seb1    32:5 | them in pursuit. There was a battle in the village called 07Seb1    32:6 | in the fortress of Erginay. A multitude of young men came 07Seb1    32:9 | the other side, they made a fortification around themselves. Their general 07Seb1    32:10 | Persian army attacked them. Not a single one of them had 07Seb1    32:12 | into the camp; there was a terrible slaughter. (The Greeks) broke 07Seb1    32:12 | In the morning they sent a message that they should abandon 07Seb1    32:14 | in friendly fashion, and appointed a stipend for him and a 07Seb1    32:14 | a stipend for him and a clothing allowance from the treasury 07Seb1    32:14 | treasury. But in later times a suspicion of treachery arose, and 07Seb1    32:14 | fortress of Angł he installed a commander; then gathering his forces 07Seb1    32:15 | this there was once more a battle in the region of 07Seb1    32:15 | the city of Tskhnakert. When a command came from the king 07Seb1    33:0 | Khosrov sends Khoṙeam with a large force to Asorestan, and 07Seb1    33:1 | across the territory of Asorestan a large and very powerful force 07Seb1    33:1 | the following order: ’Receive in a friendly way those who will 07Seb1    33:2 | he sent Ashtat Yeztayar with a large army, and included with 07Seb1    33:5 | manner attacked him. There was a great battle at Du and 07Seb1    33:6 | were opposed from within for a while, and not insignificant was 07Seb1    33:12 | stayed in that city for a year and they seized Vasak 07Seb1    33:12 | gate of the city on a cross. Although he had caused 07Seb1    33:12 | and bravery; as he was a powerful and tall youth 07Seb1    34:0 | Khosrov refuses to make a treaty; a battle near Caesarea 07Seb1    34:0 | refuses to make a treaty; a battle near Caesarea; flight of 07Seb1    34:0 | generals in Armenia. P’ilippikos makes a foray into Ayrarat and returns 07Seb1    34:0 | of Jerusalem, its capture and a fearful slaughter. Captivity of the 07Seb1    34:3 | Khosrov to request peace in a most solicitous manner. King Khosrov 07Seb1    34:4 | us our own treasure as a gift. However, I shall not 07Seb1    34:5 | army under the command of a certain curator, he ordered him 07Seb1    34:8 | Vshnasp; then Shahrapłakan. He fought a battle in Persia and won 07Seb1    34:8 | of Asorestan, until there was a great battle at Nineveh, in 07Seb1    34:9 | Then king Heraclius appointed a certain priest P’iłippikos as general 07Seb1    34:9 | and having exercised command over a long time he was accustomed 07Seb1    34:9 | on the priesthood, and become a soldier in the clergy of 07Seb1    34:10 | him to the east with a large army. Marching via Caesarea 07Seb1    34:11 | to exterminate the army without a trace. Marching very rapidly they 07Seb1    34:13 | foot. But they stopped for a few days, then proceeded gently 07Seb1    34:15 | There was a great battle in Asia, and 07Seb1    34:15 | city of Antioch. There was a terrible tumult and conflict, and 07Seb1    34:16 | A further battle occurred near the 07Seb1    34:23 | Then a command arrived from the king 07Seb1    34:23 | with great alacrity. They appointed a certain arch-priest over the 07Seb1    35:1 | the land of Armenia, Modestos, a humble priest and locum-tenens 07Seb1    35:4 | or who has given him a loan and he will repay 07Seb1    35:6 | Ascension and - to say in a word - all the worshipful places 07Seb1    36:0 | This is a copy of the letter which 07Seb1    36:7 | Who would be a son whom his father would 07Seb1    36:14 | And his death will be a diadem of consolation on your 07Seb1    37:2 | chapel, unexpectedly there was revealed a luminous and incomparable royal pearl 07Seb1    37:2 | was worthy to seal such a pearl with the third ring 07Seb1    37:3 | born from the sea, but a pearl born of royal descent 07Seb1    38:0 | to take the city. In a naval battle the Persian force 07Seb1    38:3 | days. He himself embarked on a ship, stood off at sea 07Seb1    38:5 | should say: I shall install a king for you, let him 07Seb1    38:7 | shall send to your king a letter with gifts, to seek 07Seb1    38:8 | he began to prepare for a naval battle with Byzantium. Naval 07Seb1    38:8 | oppose him, and there was a battle at sea from which 07Seb1    38:8 | did not venture to undertake a similar enterprise 07Seb1    38:9 | of king Khosrov he wrote a letter to Heraclius as follows 07Seb1    38:12 | trees whereby you may make a living.’ And we shall 07Seb1    38:13 | him by hanging him on a cross - how can the same 07Seb1    38:13 | you will see me in a manner you will not desire 07Seb1    38:15 | of the kingdom; he was a young child. Heraclius made preparations 07Seb1    38:19 | were unable to put up a resistance. He stored his treasures 07Seb1    38:24 | fully armed warriors, took up a position in the province of 07Seb1    38:27 | Shahr Varaz escaped, riding on a sorry horse. In that way 07Seb1    38:28 | their camp, and returning with a great victory reached the area 07Seb1    38:32 | that they massacred them to a man and slew their general 07Seb1    39:0 | son Kawat reigns and makes a treaty with Heraclius, both of 07Seb1    39:4 | fear and terrified. He sought a horse; but on entering the 07Seb1    39:5 | royal garden; and going under a thick bush of flowers, he 07Seb1    39:5 | king Kawat came, he ordered a search to be made. On 07Seb1    39:6 | them, because they will raise a rebellion.’ Then king Kawat 07Seb1    39:7 | ’It is necessary to make a treaty with the emperor and 07Seb1    39:8 | Then king Kawat ordered a letter of greeting to be 07Seb1    39:8 | the letter; and he sent a certain prince Ṙashnan with magnificent 07Seb1    39:10 | He wrote a solemn covenant and confirmed peace 07Seb1    39:12 | In his presence he ordered ( a letter) to be written to 07Seb1    40:2 | of the Ṙshtunik’, they chose a certain hermit, from the house 07Seb1    40:2 | he turned out to be a proud and haughty man whose 07Seb1    40:2 | man whose tongue was like a sharp sword 07Seb1    40:4 | of) St Gregory. He was a humble and gentle man, who 07Seb1    40:5 | his son Artashir; he was a young boy 07Seb1    40:6 | may need. Let us make a pact between me and you 07Seb1    40:6 | oath, in writing and with a seal.’ Then Khoṙeam was 07Seb1    40:6 | and went in person with a few (soldiers) to the appointed 07Seb1    40:7 | after him, and as large a force as might be necessary 07Seb1    40:8 | court, I shall immediately make a search for the Cross and 07Seb1    40:8 | of this in writing, with a seal and with salt.’ 07Seb1    40:8 | salt.’ And he requested a small force from him. Then 07Seb1    40:11 | one day Khoṙeam put on a royal robe, and seated on 07Seb1    40:11 | royal robe, and seated on a horse he was making a 07Seb1    40:11 | a horse he was making a tour of the army to 07Seb1    40:12 | Then this Khoṙokh sent ( a message) to the queen: ’Become 07Seb1    40:12 | She agreed, saying: ’Come with a single man at midnight, and 07Seb1    40:12 | at midnight, he went with a single aide. But when he 07Seb1    40:13 | After her (reigned) a certain Khosrov from the family 07Seb1    41:0 | of Chalcedon and receives as a gift the saltmines of Kołb 07Seb1    41:6 | of his authority, he requested a statement of faith from the 07Seb1    41:6 | faith from the king. Immediately a document was sent to him 07Seb1    41:7 | the saltmines of Kołb as a gift; and receiving this gift 07Seb1    41:8 | territory of Atrpatakan. There was a great altercation between the two 07Seb1    41:10 | of the princes gave him a strong warning and note: ’Look 07Seb1    41:10 | his own land. Having received a reliable oath, he went to 07Seb1    41:11 | and note: ’Remain with me a little time, then I shall 07Seb1    41:12 | This is the wicked deed, a great crime, attributed to the 07Seb1    41:13 | ear of the king by a certain curator, who had been 07Seb1    41:14 | to the aspet he sent a message: In return for your 07Seb1    42:5 | At that time a certain man from among those 07Seb1    42:5 | Ismael whose name was Mahmet, a merchant, as if by God’s 07Seb1    42:5 | command appeared to them as a preacher and the path of 07Seb1    42:6 | was from on high, at a single order they all came 07Seb1    42:8 | of Israel, into their tribes - a thousand men from each tribe 07Seb1    42:10 | and united together; they formed a large army. Following that they 07Seb1    42:10 | to our father Abraham as a hereditary possession and to his 07Seb1    42:15 | the fallen was more than [2,000]. A few of them escaped and 07Seb1    42:15 | them escaped and fled to a place of refuge 07Seb1    42:20 | Grigor, lord of Siwnik’, with a thousand 07Seb1    42:21 | A mutual attack ensued. The Persian 07Seb1    42:24 | Heraclius completed his life at a good old age. The days 07Seb1    42:27 | A destructive army came from Asorestan 07Seb1    42:31 | the [20th] of the month Tre, a Friday. After staying a few 07Seb1    42:31 | Tre, a Friday. After staying a few days, they left by 07Seb1    42:32 | and he attacked them with a few men. But he was 07Seb1    42:33 | On account of this battle a command came from the emperor 07Seb1    43:1 | help from the Hagarenes for a brief while, decided to rebuild 07Seb1    43:1 | with base and construction as a place for their prayers. But 07Seb1    43:3 | Now a certain man from among the 07Seb1    44:3 | Constantine reigned for (only) a few days. He was put 07Seb1    44:3 | was put to death in a plot of his own step 07Seb1    44:8 | Daniel had earlier prophesied such a disaster which befell the land 07Seb1    44:9 | as on the feet of a man, and the heart of 07Seb1    44:9 | man, and the heart of a man was given it.’ 07Seb1    44:9 | the second beast was like a bear, and it stood to 07Seb1    44:10 | the third beast was like a leopard; there were four wings 07Seb1    44:10 | there were four wings of a bird on it, and the 07Seb1    44:13 | He arose and went with a thousand men. When he had 07Seb1    44:14 | and wrong to do such a thing in this place.’ 07Seb1    44:14 | attacked him and struck him a blow on the jaw, saying 07Seb1    44:15 | kingdom; and they made general a certain T’ēodoros, one of the 07Seb1    44:16 | he begged the king as a personal favour to have mercy 07Seb1    44:17 | others. He sent to Armenia a certain prince called T’umas. When 07Seb1    44:19 | presence; he received him in a friendly way and with the 07Seb1    44:20 | He appointed for him a stipend and sustenance from the 07Seb1    44:22 | the Greeks, but thought of a trick. He requested permission from 07Seb1    44:23 | the royal permit. He boarded a ship and crossed the sea 07Seb1    44:23 | the sea. Travelling rapidly like a bird he quickly reached Tayk’ 07Seb1    44:27 | curopalates and to be given a crown of that rank and 07Seb1    44:29 | He gave him a wife from the house of 07Seb1    44:32 | from the fortress of Darawnk’ a force in their support. Smbat 07Seb1    45:1 | day of the month, on a Sunday at dawn, the Ismaelites 07Seb1    45:1 | at dawn, the Ismaelites raised a yell in the fortress from 07Seb1    45:2 | troops, and none survived save a few who escaped on foot 07Seb1    45:2 | and he crushed Ismael with a great slaughter. Two princes of 07Seb1    45:2 | and Ogbay, and it was a great victory for the Armenian 07Seb1    45:3 | the battle [100] select horses as a gift. When the king received 07Seb1    45:5 | to be prepared. He boarded a ship and undertook an attack 07Seb1    45:8 | St Gregory. There he built a church in the name of 07Seb1    45:8 | Angels, who had appeared as a multitude of heavenly hosts in 07Seb1    45:9 | He built the church as a tall edifice, incomparably wonderful, worthy 07Seb1    45:9 | it. He brought water, directed ( a channel) of the river, and 07Seb1    45:9 | and surrounded his residence with a high wall, beautifully constructed, to 07Seb1    45:11 | So, they wrote a complaint to Constans, the Greek 07Seb1    45:11 | king, with the patriarch, gave a command, and they wrote an 07Seb1    45:11 | Armenians that they should effect a union of faith with Rome 07Seb1    45:12 | There was a man there from the province 07Seb1    45:13 | They all decided to make a response to the letter 07Seb1    46:3 | We have a commandment from the inspired prophets 07Seb1    46:10 | Nestorians, and many others of a profusion of sects. Furthermore, the 07Seb1    46:16 | Persian king. Hence, he commanded a disputation to be held, and 07Seb1    46:21 | The king commanded a search to be made in 07Seb1    46:22 | doctor. Then king Khosrov ordered a copy of the orthodox faith 07Seb1    46:29 | begotten, God and man, like a lamp. (Paul) of Tarsus declares 07Seb1    46:29 | there is no mediator of a single person’, because the unity 07Seb1    46:29 | and Mary, one nature by a distinct and unconfused union, ineffable 07Seb1    46:33 | filled with wonder and beneficence, a marvel and sign of great 07Seb1    46:33 | was touched, the timeless had a beginning, the Son of God 07Seb1    46:33 | the Son of God became a son of man and joined 07Seb1    46:34 | Son in the likeness of a body of sin for the 07Seb1    46:38 | Plus a further numberless multitude of wonderful 07Seb1    46:42 | A second time (the faith was 07Seb1    46:44 | Again, a third time (the faith was 07Seb1    46:45 | two kings joined together, keeping a sure mutual peace forever between 07Seb1    46:46 | the divine vision, have received a true foundation from the holy 07Seb1    46:54 | the holy Spirit are from a different being or existence, or 07Seb1    46:57 | Gaul and Spain. He was a true Christian 07Seb1    46:59 | they were gathered together in a gilded portico, he came into 07Seb1    46:59 | midst and confessed: ’I am a Christian and a servant of 07Seb1    46:59 | ’I am a Christian and a servant of the Lord God 07Seb1    46:61 | and did not reckon it a dishonour for the deity. But 07Seb1    46:65 | But as for those (married) a second time, even if one 07Seb1    46:65 | time, even if one is a virgin and the other (married 07Seb1    46:67 | fornication, and not to accept a bastard as heir. Lycurgus the 07Seb1    46:67 | fornication, and not to bury a bastard 07Seb1    46:68 | Someone asked Theano, a female disciple of Pythagoras, after 07Seb1    46:68 | how many days from approaching a woman it was allowed to 07Seb1    46:72 | the heavenly king not possessing a clean garment, or with fearless 07Seb1    46:75 | of Eutyches, it was in a manner! similar to that distortion 07Seb1    46:75 | and they professed the Trinity a quaternity by addition 07Seb1    46:76 | Tome of Leo to be a pillar of support for their 07Seb1    46:77 | man and being born of a woman, and enduring all human 07Seb1    46:78 | it would be impossible for a virgin to conceive without a 07Seb1    46:78 | a virgin to conceive without a man, and uncorrupted to bring 07Seb1    47:2 | not wish to heed me, a sword will consume you; for 07Seb1    47:4 | ’Like a tempest it shall run from 07Seb1    47:4 | of those nations emerged in a storm and occupied all the 07Seb1    47:5 | which made the whole earth a desert 07Seb1    47:7 | not remain in the kingdom a single counsellor, since all the 07Seb1    47:10 | authority summon the Magistros, fearing a rebellion of the army. But 07Seb1    47:10 | Magistros and bring him by a ruse (to Constantinople 07Seb1    48:5 | all the Armenian princes made a pact with death and contracted 07Seb1    48:6 | take tribute from you for a three-year period. Then you 07Seb1    48:6 | many, nor even down to a single cavalryman 07Seb1    48:8 | and I shall give you a subsidy as assistance; and we 07Seb1    48:10 | him and presented to him a letter from their prince, which 07Seb1    48:11 | you attack me, God is a righteous judge.’ He left 07Seb1    48:12 | the city of Karin for a few days. The princes and 07Seb1    48:19 | plain. Although the Iberians for a while did not wish to 07Seb1    49:1 | lands with the army in a military capacity. He firmly agreed 07Seb1    49:2 | of the Catholicosate. He was a man virtuous in conduct, fasting 07Seb1    49:3 | church of St. Gregory on a Sunday. The liturgy was celebrated 07Seb1    49:3 | was celebrated in Greek by a Roman priest; and the king 07Seb1    49:4 | the Catholicoi had preserved on a solid foundation in the holy 07Seb1    49:6 | However, he was confuted by a certain bishop in front of 07Seb1    49:6 | the bishops had previously composed ( a declaration); he had anathematized the 07Seb1    49:8 | priests came forward and made a complaint against that bishop: ’He 07Seb1    49:10 | king addressed him: ’Are you a priest?’ The bishop note 07Seb1    49:11 | The bishop note: ’I am a sinful man and unworthy; I 07Seb1    49:13 | years before this he convened a council and summoned to it 07Seb1    49:13 | all the bishops. He had a document composed concerning the faith 07Seb1    49:13 | is now with him. Order a search made to see.’ 07Seb1    49:16 | he departed immediately. He appointed a certain Morianos prince of Armenia 07Seb1    49:20 | gold embroidered with gold and a banner of his own pattern 07Seb1    49:20 | with honour. He had made a pact with him to bring 07Seb1    50:0 | Greeks. Muawiya comes to Chalcedon. A tempest destroys and scatters the 07Seb1    50:0 | invades Iberia, is repelled by a winter storm. The princes of 07Seb1    50:2 | And I shall make you a great prince in your regions 07Seb1    50:4 | and artillery – [300] great ships with a thousand elite cavalry for each 07Seb1    50:5 | he put in them (only) a few men for the sake 07Seb1    50:9 | sat on ashes, and ordered a fast to be proclaimed in 07Seb1    50:11 | heaven with the violence of a fierce wind, and there arose 07Seb1    50:11 | fierce wind, and there arose a storm, a great tempest, and 07Seb1    50:11 | and there arose a storm, a great tempest, and the sea 07Seb1    50:12 | swallowed them. There remained not a single one of them 07Seb1    50:15 | It parleyed with them in a threatening message, that they should 07Seb1    50:18 | at one place and made a pact with each other that 07Seb1    50:20 | and be unable to find a way out 07Seb1    51:6 | There came out against them a small army (from the place 07Seb1    51:7 | T’etalk’. They joined battle with a great shock, and the Ismaelite 07Seb1    51:8 | ridges of the mountain. Only a few, escaping by the skin 07Seb1    52:2 | their desires, because fear of a dreadful death hung over them 07Seb1    52:4 | of the Greek army was a certain Mawrianos, who they said 07Seb1    52:4 | Mawrianos, who they said was a trustworthy man 07Seb1    52:9 | position of prince of Armenia, a virtuous man in all respects 07Seb1    52:9 | in all respects. He was a domesticated man, a lover of 07Seb1    52:9 | He was a domesticated man, a lover of reading and study 07Seb1    52:13 | from that land, about [1,775] people. A few were left, in number 07Seb1    52:14 | their service. And Hamazasp had a brother among the hostages. So 07Seb1    52:17 | Now God sent a disturbance amongst the armies of 07Seb1    52:20 | king of the Greeks, made a treaty, and joined him. The 07Seb1    52:24 | fly from the breast of a powerful man, from a fully 07Seb1    52:24 | of a powerful man, from a fully-extended bow to the 08Ghev1    1:8 | Coming quickly, altogether they formed a mighty army which went before 08Ghev1    1:9 | Madiam army, as numerous as a swarm of locusts, with their 08Ghev1    1:10 | out in the open at a great distance from themselves. And 08Ghev1    2:0 | A year later the Arabs became 08Ghev1    2:0 | shah of Iran. They assembled a multitude of troops and came 08Ghev1    2:4 | A large body of troops separated 08Ghev1    2:9 | their horses and went to a hill named Eghbark’ where they 08Ghev1    2:13 | land of the Armenians with a very large force 08Ghev1    3:3 | is capable of lamenting in a worthy fashion the wretchedness of 08Ghev1    3:6 | the survivors were not in a condition to gather up the 08Ghev1    3:11 | of their rule, they assembled a force and again attacked the 08Ghev1    3:14 | Prince T’e’odoros who, roaring like a lion, took six hundred armed 08Ghev1    4:0 | Succeeding them, a certain Mu’awiya held authority for 08Ghev1    4:3 | and put in his stead a certain Smbat from the Bagratid 08Ghev1    4:5 | Constans wrote a second time: “If you do 08Ghev1    4:13 | Ishmaelites, took them and levied a 08Ghev1    4:16 | ’Abd al-Malik was a cruel and warlike man. In 08Ghev1    4:16 | of his rule there was a fierce conflict, warfare, and a 08Ghev1    4:16 | a fierce conflict, warfare, and a great bloodletting among the Tachiks 08Ghev1    4:16 | who had insulted His servants, a vengeance visited upon them by 08Ghev1    4:17 | land of the Armenians in a peaceful state throughout his reign 08Ghev1    4:17 | and attacks. For he was a God-fearing man, perfectly pious 08Ghev1    4:17 | the faith, charitable, hospitable, and ( a man who) cared about the 08Ghev1    4:17 | district of Aragatsotn he built a wonderfully appointed and adorned house 08Ghev1    4:17 | adorned house of worship as a memorial to his own name 08Ghev1    4:18 | years. In the fourth year, a northern people called Khazars (Xazirk’ 08Ghev1    5:1 | of the Bagratuni clan was a prominent grandee among the Armenian 08Ghev1    5:2 | He built a church called Amenap’rkich’ at Dariwnk’ 08Ghev1    5:3 | first year of his reign, a star of astonishing aspect appeared 08Ghev1    5:3 | of astonishing aspect appeared like a column of light shedding light 08Ghev1    5:3 | tail, and they called it a comet. It became a symbol 08Ghev1    5:3 | it a comet. It became a symbol of (the coming of 08Ghev1    5:4 | of Ashot patrik, (Justinian) sent a large force against our land 08Ghev1    5:6 | and established his reign for a second time. True’gh died in 08Ghev1    5:7 | fourth year of his rule a looting brigade of the sons 08Ghev1    5:10 | Only Prince Smbat with a few men continued pursuing them 08Ghev1    5:11 | However Smbat’s soldiers gave a shout and (the remaining troops 08Ghev1    6:1 | succeeded Emperor Justinian, again sent a force to Armenia with orders 08Ghev1    6:2 | Byzantine army, he escaped by a hairsbreadth with a few men 08Ghev1    6:2 | escaped by a hairsbreadth with a few men. The Byzantine troops 08Ghev1    7:1 | Mahmet) (ibn Marwan) who swore a vow to his prince (his 08Ghev1    7:4 | the women and children. Such a crisis descended on our land 08Ghev1    7:4 | peaceful rest, rather than endure a life of such misery 08Ghev1    7:5 | later his impiety came to a head, and Muhammad began to 08Ghev1    7:7 | and so they treacherously planned a fatal ruination for them 08Ghev1    7:8 | A brigade of the infidels went 08Ghev1    7:8 | servants and threw him into a ditch. When morning had dawned 08Ghev1    7:10 | Then they initiated a search and found the dead 08Ghev1    7:12 | their satanic father, who was a murderer from the very start 08Ghev1    7:17 | eternal life on them through a transitory death 08Ghev1    8:3 | separated and departed, going to a plain called Ar’estakoghm on the 08Ghev1    8:3 | on the Vaspurakan border where a certain monk resided, in order 08Ghev1    8:3 | matters. For the monk was a blessed and select man, full 08Ghev1    8:9 | Then the Armenian forces sent a message to the Tachik troops 08Ghev1    8:11 | of God for aid and a just verdict on themselves and 08Ghev1    8:12 | They ate a small meal to strengthen their 08Ghev1    8:16 | A small number of the fugitives 08Ghev1    8:18 | Ishmaelites, ’Abd al-Malik. As a result she received great thanks 08Ghev1    8:20 | the dignity of curopalates, in a royal fashion 08Ghev1    8:23 | eighty men who fled into a church. The Armenians were unable 08Ghev1    8:23 | forbid that we do such a thing to the dwelling place 08Ghev1    8:23 | God, Who has given such a victory to us 08Ghev1    8:24 | up and expel them. After a while, one of the Ishmaelite 08Ghev1    8:25 | grant us our lives as a gift, and take our belongings 08Ghev1    8:26 | of mercy. You, however, are a merciless people, unworthy of mercy 08Ghev1    9:0 | and ordered him to take a multitude of soldiers and go 08Ghev1    9:11 | with him as though with a living person. He note: “I 08Ghev1    9:11 | by reading your letter. Like a brave shepherd concerned about his 08Ghev1    9:13 | laid it to rest in a grave in glory 08Ghev1    9:15 | for general Muhammad, he came a second time to the land 08Ghev1    9:15 | land of the Armenians with a large force, in the eighteenth 08Ghev1    10:1 | Here is a description of his deeds. In 08Ghev1    10:1 | and their cavalry due to a grudge he held against Curopalate 08Ghev1    10:3 | force under the command of a general. Smbat, uniting his forces 08Ghev1    10:4 | When they had reached a certain spot they deployed—front 08Ghev1    10:7 | the unjust order and commanded a certain Kasim, who was his 08Ghev1    10:7 | pretext of recording them in a royal military census, giving them 08Ghev1    10:11 | name is glorified has become a cemetary for us 08Ghev1    10:13 | will free you alive. As a result, they even made oaths 08Ghev1    10:16 | the situation resembled that of a flock of sheep surrounded by 08Ghev1    10:17 | and quit the land, requesting a city to dwell in from 08Ghev1    10:19 | and sending as his replacement a certain ’Abd al-Aziz, who 08Ghev1    10:19 | wordly knowledge, as well as a narrator of legends and fables 08Ghev1    10:20 | own land and giving them a written oath in accordance with 08Ghev1    10:21 | them to write anathemas in a book. And he ordered that 08Ghev1    10:24 | locks, and surrounded it with a moat filled with water to 08Ghev1    10:24 | shall rebuild it. I was a twelve-year-old lad then 08Ghev1    10:24 | year-old lad then wearing a red apron 08Ghev1    10:25 | the city, I crawled through a passageway and emerged on top 08Ghev1    11:1 | and Khurasan, until he reached a part of the land of 08Ghev1    11:1 | encamped by the banks of a mighty river, called Botis 08Ghev1    11:3 | will turn your country into a desert, devoid of inhabitants, and 08Ghev1    11:5 | with one another, they wrote a response of this sort: “Could 08Ghev1    11:7 | However, if you merely want a gift from me, after the 08Ghev1    11:8 | agreed to this and sent a messenger to Muhammad, saying: “Stay 08Ghev1    11:10 | than [40,000] cavalrymen. Chenbakur himself with a few men encamped a short 08Ghev1    11:10 | with a few men encamped a short distance from them and 08Ghev1    11:11 | the notables of your army a number corresponding to the number 08Ghev1    11:13 | did survive excepting Muhammad and a few men who leaped onto 08Ghev1    12:2 | the fortress walls, they uncovered a large stone in the foundation 08Ghev1    12:4 | Maslama took a multitude of troops and crossed 08Ghev1    12:4 | pitched camp close to T’argu, a city of the Huns. Now 08Ghev1    12:5 | The latter gathered up a host of troops, and all 08Ghev1    12:8 | the camp rabble, Maslama cut a path through the Caucasus Mountains 08Ghev1    12:8 | clutches of the enemy by a hairsbreadth 08Ghev1    13:3 | This ’Umar wrote a letter to the Byzantine emperor 08Ghev1    13:5 | has often come over me a desire to know the teachings 08Ghev1    13:5 | imaginative religion, and to make a profound study of your beliefs 08Ghev1    13:7 | This provides a reason for suspecting that you 08Ghev1    13:8 | times lost, so that for a long time there was nothing 08Ghev1    13:8 | remaining among them, till at a later period some men recomposed 08Ghev1    13:12 | in the unclean entrails of a woman? Why do you adore 08Ghev1    13:13 | ass and the other on a camel, so why do you 08Ghev1    14:2 | with stones, those who manifest a desire to learn the marvelous 08Ghev1    14:7 | we are ashamed to profess a religion so marvelous as ours 08Ghev1    14:8 | two men are standing near a fire, one of them recognizes 08Ghev1    14:8 | but the other, driven by a spirit of contradiction, says that 08Ghev1    14:8 | contradiction, says that it is a spring of water; then the 08Ghev1    14:27 | of faith than that of a dissident or heterodox who, while 08Ghev1    14:30 | one can base himself on a lie, and it is a 08Ghev1    14:30 | a lie, and it is a lie to adopt part of 08Ghev1    14:30 | lie to adopt part of a testimony and reject the other 08Ghev1    14:47 | not regard your Muhammad as a man? Yet, relying on the 08Ghev1    14:48 | that he much rather approaches a person who is deprived completely 08Ghev1    14:50 | did not speak with man a single time only, nor through 08Ghev1    14:50 | single time only, nor through a single prophet, as you assume 08Ghev1    14:52 | to have ordained all by a single Prophet, why should He 08Ghev1    14:53 | God to Moses was only a preparation for the instruction of 08Ghev1    14:53 | the instruction of men, not a complete instruction, but nevertheless, God 08Ghev1    14:55 | says): “For in my anger a fire is kindled which shall 08Ghev1    14:59 | tongue, “to render grace” eucharistein, a meaning which has no connection 08Ghev1    14:60 | be forgiven.” [Matt. 12:31]. Can there be a blasphemy more terrible than considering 08Ghev1    14:60 | than considering the Holy Spirit a person completely ignorant of the 08Ghev1    14:63 | the world shall arrive at a most truthful knowledge of God 08Ghev1    14:63 | idolatry, and shall arrive at a certain degree of knowledge under 08Ghev1    14:64 | has announced to the world a fourth period, whether for doctrine 08Ghev1    14:66 | own people, it has been a hundred years, more or less 08Ghev1    14:66 | appeared in the midst of a single nation speaking a single 08Ghev1    14:66 | of a single nation speaking a single language. Yet this religion 08Ghev1    14:66 | so young, and professed by a single nation, already presents numerous 08Ghev1    14:67 | a few of which have come 08Ghev1    14:68 | by exterminating those who differ a little from your opinions, you 08Ghev1    14:68 | your opinions, you are committing a crime against God 08Ghev1    14:69 | form one single people speaking a single language, and having at 08Ghev1    14:69 | and having at your head a single person, who is at 08Ghev1    14:71 | but whose faith is only a blasphemy, and their baptism only 08Ghev1    14:71 | blasphemy, and their baptism only a desecration. When lapsed manifest their 08Ghev1    14:72 | far from us and speak a tongue other than ours; above 08Ghev1    14:73 | not been able to acquire a closer acquaintance with the traditions 08Ghev1    14:74 | spread abroad, let me indicate a few of them: First our 08Ghev1    14:75 | especially in the case of a certain Hajjaj, named by you 08Ghev1    14:75 | by far to undertake among a people speaking a single language 08Ghev1    14:75 | undertake among a people speaking a single language, a task which 08Ghev1    14:75 | people speaking a single language, a task which was indeed achieved 08Ghev1    14:76 | Nevertheless, a few of the works of 08Ghev1    14:76 | make them disappear completely. Such a thing as this would have 08Ghev1    14:83 | mixture of the sexes, such a person would not be deceiving 08Ghev1    14:84 | to us to proceed from a birth so pure, what will 08Ghev1    14:84 | will be (the purity) of a divine birth, which proceeds from 08Ghev1    14:84 | divine birth, which proceeds from a spontaneous, an ever sufficient light 08Ghev1    14:87 | quality and which nothing dims, a ray which is not originated 08Ghev1    14:87 | the sun, but is of a quality so eminent as to 08Ghev1    14:89 | to bow down before Adam, a fact unknown to the Holy 08Ghev1    14:89 | the Holy Scriptures. Adam was a man, (and in rendering him 08Ghev1    14:91 | the Creator, and being now a despised creature because of his 08Ghev1    14:91 | ingratitude, he abandoned himself to a life of most profane debauchery 08Ghev1    14:91 | came to present nothing but a pattern of hatred, plunder, murder 08Ghev1    14:93 | Prophets, His ministers, like by a light which shines in the 08Ghev1    14:96 | appearance of the Word in a human form: “The Lord your 08Ghev1    14:96 | your God will raise up a prophet from among your brethren 08Ghev1    14:97 | single prophet, there have appeared a great number. Nevertheless, this passage 08Ghev1    14:98 | I shall cite for you a series of passages from the 08Ghev1    14:98 | you, God willing, as by a stairway, even to the presence 08Ghev1    14:98 | and note: “But I am a worm, and no man; scorned 08Ghev1    14:107 | from receiving yet another, by a stranger, in spite of his 08Ghev1    14:107 | your encampments, O Israel.” [Numbers 24:5]. And a little further on (he adds 08Ghev1    14:107 | little further on (he adds:) “ A scepter shall come forth from 08Ghev1    14:108 | behold him, but not nigh: a star shall come forth out 08Ghev1    14:108 | forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of 08Ghev1    14:108 | prophecy speaks of Him as a man, yet you see well 08Ghev1    14:112 | A little further on (the Prophet 08Ghev1    14:113 | fear to an ordinary man, a descendant of David, and not 08Ghev1    14:115 | ancient days.” [Micah 5:2]. The issue of a simple man to be dated 08Ghev1    14:118 | Israel should remain to be a clairvoyant (people), listen to what 08Ghev1    14:118 | to say: “For to us a child is born. . . and the 08Ghev1    14:120 | this has no reference to a contemporary throne, but to that 08Ghev1    14:121 | to His human nature was a son of David, of whom 08Ghev1    14:122 | to what Isaiah (prophesied): “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear 08Ghev1    14:122 | virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his 08Ghev1    14:127 | grew up before him like a young plant), and like a 08Ghev1    14:127 | a young plant), and like a root out of dry ground 08Ghev1    14:127 | despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted 08Ghev1    14:129 | opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to 08Ghev1    14:130 | with the wicked and with a rich man in his death 08Ghev1    14:131 | dare you utter so evident a blasphemy, relying solely on the 08Ghev1    14:132 | two generations? If you had a countenance that was sensitive and 08Ghev1    14:133 | irrelevant, and offer nothing but a multitude of gross and inadmissible 08Ghev1    14:133 | to dry them up with a little effort on the part 08Ghev1    14:134 | origin. Suppose we admit for a moment that ours have been 08Ghev1    14:141 | His disciples that He was a mere man, such an apparition 08Ghev1    14:141 | respects above the state of a mere man; if, I repeat 08Ghev1    14:144 | me.” [John 12:45,48]. He was sent as a man, and He sent (His 08Ghev1    14:144 | He would have not said a little later on, “I and 08Ghev1    14:145 | Had He been merely a Prophet, He must have only 08Ghev1    14:145 | became perfect man, by assuming a human nature 08Ghev1    14:146 | the Scriptures), as applying to a man, just as the glorious 08Ghev1    14:146 | the glorious expressions apply to a true God, as I have 08Ghev1    14:147 | and approached the Lord as a mere man. In His human 08Ghev1    14:148 | temptations useless and retired for a while at which time angels 08Ghev1    14:148 | not worship (the Lord) as a mere man. It seems that 08Ghev1    14:148 | God, confessing Him always as a mere man, comparing Him to 08Ghev1    14:149 | ask you), if (Jesus) were a mere man, according to your 08Ghev1    14:149 | it an incredible thing that a man should be able to 08Ghev1    14:154 | Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house 08Ghev1    14:159 | You are also ignorant of a further instance, that Abraham, before 08Ghev1    14:159 | that it might serve as a sign of nothing other than 08Ghev1    14:160 | God, announcing the introduction of a new covenant. Indeed, if Christ 08Ghev1    14:161 | fact that at so modern a time as ours, when God 08Ghev1    14:163 | I have given you as a light to the nations” and 08Ghev1    14:163 | sat in darkness have seen a great light 08Ghev1    14:165 | the Creator for so great a mystery. This is the day 08Ghev1    14:167 | yourselves. For I am doing a work in your days that 08Ghev1    14:168 | dwell in the womb of a woman, in the midst of 08Ghev1    14:169 | that you know there is a multitude of creatures God has 08Ghev1    14:169 | the animals, it appears occupy a superior place in your mind 08Ghev1    14:170 | was nevertheless created not by a simple command, but by the 08Ghev1    14:175 | considered of greater value than a bush and all other created 08Ghev1    14:176 | ever-living to have been a living temple I submit to 08Ghev1    14:178 | broken, yet we know that a great number of saints’ bones 08Ghev1    14:180 | prophet, how could those of a simple dead man be able 08Ghev1    14:181 | dwelling in the tomb of a dead person, for that which 08Ghev1    14:182 | the straying habit worthy of a pagan, exercise such cruelties towards 08Ghev1    14:183 | immolate the profane sacrifice of a camel, at the same time 08Ghev1    14:183 | the same time had decapitated a number of Christian servants of 08Ghev1    14:184 | thereon, as we learned from a commandment given by God to 08Ghev1    14:184 | holy having the form of a living being 08Ghev1    14:186 | comes.” [Wisdom 14:7]. Again, “She (wisdom) is a tree of life to those 08Ghev1    14:188 | Likewise we, animated by a sincere love for the disciples 08Ghev1    14:188 | Lord Himself, have always felt a desire to conserve their images 08Ghev1    14:188 | appeared in the world in a similar figure, and who has 08Ghev1    14:189 | Abraham as you say. As a matter of fact Abraham never 08Ghev1    14:190 | and was the object of a cult among your people, while 08Ghev1    14:193 | you as by fire in a single day. As it is 08Ghev1    14:194 | will allow myself to say a word about the abominable authorization 08Ghev1    14:194 | women, as if it were a matter of tilling fields. Nor 08Ghev1    14:195 | Is there indeed a worse blasphemy than that of 08Ghev1    14:195 | known that therein he committed a sin before God, for which 08Ghev1    14:200 | In a speaking of Satan and the 08Ghev1    14:206 | the vision of Isaiah, whereby a rider appears to him mounted 08Ghev1    14:206 | mounted on an ass and a camel. The meaning of the 08Ghev1    14:207 | A little later on the Prophet 08Ghev1    14:207 | Prophet says: “I saw riders, a pair of horsemen one on 08Ghev1    14:207 | ass and the other on a camel.” [Isa. 21:7]. Those two riders are 08Ghev1    14:216 | ourselves the name of ’saints’, a name precious and incomparable, as 08Ghev1    14:216 | You shall be called by a new name which the mouth 08Ghev1    14:219 | was the reason for such a reign? God alone knows; but 08Ghev1    15:1 | As a result of this letter (‘Umar 08Ghev1    16:0 | After (‘Umar) a certain Yazid (Yazkert) (Yazid) [II, 720-724] ruled 08Ghev1    16:0 | for six years. He was a filthy man who wrought acts 08Ghev1    16:3 | And thus did he receive a worthy judgement from the Lord 08Ghev1    17:1 | the disastrous plan of sending a certain general named Harith (Hert’ 08Ghev1    17:1 | named Harith (Hert’) to conduct a census throughout the land of 08Ghev1    18:1 | general named T’armach’ to assemble a large force and to go 08Ghev1    18:1 | land of the Armenians. In a unified body (the troops) passed 08Ghev1    18:3 | battling against Ampriotik fortress, suddenly a brigade of Ishmaelite troops under 08Ghev1    18:3 | fell upon their camp with a small number of men. (The 08Ghev1    18:5 | their (battle) emblem. This was a bronze statue which the Harashi 08Ghev1    18:5 | them to this day as a testament to the bravery of 08Ghev1    18:6 | ibn Abd al-Malik) with a multitude of troops to provide 08Ghev1    19:1 | sent his brother Maslama with a large force against the land 08Ghev1    19:1 | encamped by the banks of a swiftly flowing river called the 08Ghev1    19:2 | river, fortifying their encampment with a surrounding ditch. Thus did they 08Ghev1    19:3 | Meanwhile, on a daily basis, Emperor Leo kept 08Ghev1    19:3 | his forces) not fall into a treacherous trap. Rather he wanted 08Ghev1    19:4 | here and there, to take a lot of booty and captives 08Ghev1    19:5 | up and was) accompanied by a great cloud of dust 08Ghev1    20:0 | once more (the caliph) assembled a force—larger than the previous 08Ghev1    20:1 | built with heavenly wisdom as a house of God on earth 08Ghev1    20:1 | that) he would build there a place of loathsome devil-worship 08Ghev1    20:1 | place of loathsome devil-worship, ( a mosque) as a place of 08Ghev1    20:1 | devil-worship, (a mosque) as a place of worship 08Ghev1    20:3 | an emissary to him with a letter full of contempt and 08Ghev1    20:3 | come forth to us as a tax payer? For all nations 08Ghev1    20:6 | I will turn it into a bath house for my soldiers 08Ghev1    20:12 | After this he wrote a letter to General Maslama with 08Ghev1    20:12 | you sharpen your treachery like a razor? Why do you brazenly 08Ghev1    20:19 | furious and rose up like a wild beast to do battle 08Ghev1    20:19 | battle against the solidity of a rock, so that he be 08Ghev1    20:21 | the multitude of troops—like a forest on the sea—he 08Ghev1    20:21 | doors of the fortress with a chain, and did not allow 08Ghev1    20:21 | enemy. For he remained awaiting a visitation from On High and 08Ghev1    20:25 | pounding waves rose up causing a massive destruction of ships, and 08Ghev1    20:25 | massive destruction of ships, and a great drowning of the Ishmaelite 08Ghev1    20:26 | A portion of the troops, clinging 08Ghev1    20:27 | For out of many, only a few survived 08Ghev1    20:31 | Maslama readied himself and boarded a vessel, cautiously traversing the Mediterranean 08Ghev1    20:32 | his death, did not gird a sword to his waist 08Ghev1    22:2 | Partaw) shahastan he set aside a fifth portion of the captives 08Ghev1    22:5 | captives amongst his troops, giving a portion to Ashot and to 08Ghev1    23:0 | who ruled for (one and a half) years 08Ghev1    23:1 | He was a powerfully built strongman who enjoyed 08Ghev1    23:4 | palace, found (al-Walid) in a drunken stupor, and slew him 08Ghev1    23:4 | stupor, and slew him with a sword. In his stead they 08Ghev1    23:4 | they elevated (to the caliphate) a certain Sulaiman from the same 08Ghev1    24:1 | Ishmael adhered to him, forming a large army, which then crossed 08Ghev1    24:1 | the confines of Damascus (at a place) called Rusafa (R’usp’a 08Ghev1    24:6 | led into captivity along with a motley multitude. For this was 08Ghev1    24:8 | So I will send a fire upon the house of 08Ghev1    24:11 | only did they not fear a visitation from God, but they 08Ghev1    25:2 | land of the Armenians after a short while they went to 08Ghev1    25:6 | battlefield they stopped fighting for a while 08Ghev1    25:8 | arrested and given over to a certain Oqba (Ok’ba) to be 08Ghev1    25:9 | into confinement in jail for a few days 08Ghev1    25:10 | that he be tied to a stake until he died. Thus 08Ghev1    25:10 | he died. Thus (Dawit’) died a pitiful and ignoble death. As 08Ghev1    26:2 | Quite the contrary, it is a devious plan and a disastrous 08Ghev1    26:2 | is a devious plan and a disastrous proposition. Clearly our forces 08Ghev1    26:5 | the other lords and made a vow on the holy cross 08Ghev1    26:8 | As a result, God withdrew his forgiveness 08Ghev1    26:8 | did not last even for a full year. Prince Ashot broke 08Ghev1    26:10 | Ashot) over the mountains like a crow. (Grigor) caught up with 08Ghev1    26:11 | entire land, consigning it to a shadowy darkness and plunging into 08Ghev1    26:14 | God was visited upon him, a punishment commensurate with his actions 08Ghev1    26:14 | brother Mushegh became prince for a short time 08Ghev1    27:2 | and concealed themselves there for a while 08Ghev1    27:3 | general over themselves Kahat’ba and a certain Abu Muslim who was 08Ghev1    27:6 | unfolding, he was plunged into a great panic, opened the royal 08Ghev1    27:9 | in streams which evaporated into a dark fog 08Ghev1    28:3 | with bitter tax demands, imposing a tax of many silver zuze’s 08Ghev1    28:3 | zuze’s per capita and placing a lead seal around their necks 08Ghev1    28:6 | entrapped people like someone casting a net, to the point that 08Ghev1    28:6 | styled him the “father of a coin.” For in truth he 08Ghev1    28:8 | his father’s brother. He was a tall, attractive man with a 08Ghev1    28:8 | a tall, attractive man with a noble disposition, who knew the 08Ghev1    29:1 | opened the treasury and withdrew a large amount of gold and 08Ghev1    29:1 | also found in that treasury a fragment of the Lord’s Cross 08Ghev1    30:1 | not desist. Now there was a certain snake-like individual named 08Ghev1    30:2 | to the problem) with only a few men and fell in 08Ghev1    30:3 | their swords to work, killed a host of enemies, and tried 08Ghev1    31:0 | this, (Yazid) sought to achieve a peace treaty between the Khazars’ 08Ghev1    31:1 | the Khazars gave (Yazid) as a wife his sister, named Khatun 08Ghev1    31:1 | But Khatun lived for only a short while and then died 08Ghev1    31:6 | Gathering up a multitude of captives and a 08Ghev1    31:6 | a multitude of captives and a great deal of booty, they 08Ghev1    31:7 | But it happened that after a short while the shadow (of 08Ghev1    31:7 | even) sent his son as a hostage to the land of 08Ghev1    32:3 | in the district of Her. A certain Ishmaelite general (named) R’uh 08Ghev1    32:4 | fortress where he desisted for a while. Subsequently another force came 08Ghev1    32:4 | who besieged that fortress for a year 08Ghev1    32:5 | shackles and threw him into a prison of unbearable narrowness and 08Ghev1    32:6 | died there in tribulation, like a worthless man. (Gagik’s) sons, Hamazasp 08Ghev1    32:6 | were kept in bondage for a long time 08Ghev1    33:2 | silver and per capita as a result of which they were 08Ghev1    33:2 | one and all, ate from a furnace of poverty 08Ghev1    33:5 | After not too long a period—not even one full 08Ghev1    33:6 | of princes. He was (but) a witness to the anger from 08Ghev1    33:9 | stripped naked and thrown into a lake in the most bitter 08Ghev1    34:0 | of the Ishmaelites came to a head. For when the lords 08Ghev1    34:14 | Mushegh) went against them with a few men, to the village 08Ghev1    34:15 | Dwin, entrusting (the force) to a military commander named Abu Njib 08Ghev1    34:19 | many (Muslims) who fled, only a few reached the city of 08Ghev1    34:22 | deceived by the opinions of a monk who, filled with the 08Ghev1    34:23 | one of you can conquer a thousand of them, while two 08Ghev1    34:24 | Thus did (the monk) on a daily basis narrate such false 08Ghev1    34:24 | believed him and called him a seer 08Ghev1    34:30 | disastrous affair, since he was a prudent and brilliant man 08Ghev1    34:31 | and furthermore (their leader) has a limitless host at his disposal 08Ghev1    34:32 | the Byzantine (emperor) cannot lift a hand (against them). He quakes 08Ghev1    34:33 | against ferocious wild beasts, slaughtered a lion as though it were 08Ghev1    34:33 | lion as though it were a goat’s kid 08Ghev1    34:36 | fall into their hands in a single day and die a 08Ghev1    34:36 | a single day and die a disagreeable death. For I know 08Ghev1    34:40 | brigade, and entrusted them to a general named (ibn Isma’il) Amir 08Ghev1    34:49 | arrived and informed them that a large force of the sons 08Ghev1    34:50 | beat and tortured him as a liar. (Hamazasp) himself boastfully proceeded 08Ghev1    34:51 | lords. (Amir left Xlat’) with a multitudinous host and lay in 08Ghev1    34:55 | As a result (of this defeat), despair 08Ghev1    34:59 | to this peril. They assembled a force of some [5,000] men, quit 08Ghev1    34:62 | and resisted (the Armenians) with a wild rage, inflicting wounds on 08Ghev1    34:67 | learned directly from the enemy, a multitude of angels was fighting 08Ghev1    34:69 | lord of the Mamikonean House, a vibrant and handsome young man 08Ghev1    34:70 | but (they lay there) in a pitiful and dishonored state, since 08Ghev1    34:73 | of Arche’sh, (and occurred) on a Monday in the same month 08Ghev1    35:1 | the entrances and exits as ( a source of) refuge and protection 08Ghev1    35:3 | before the caliph and receive a reward from him for his 08Ghev1    35:4 | died suffering from horrible pains, a worthy recompense for the blood 08Ghev1    35:4 | sword wielded from On High, ( a sword) more forceful than any 08Ghev1    36:0 | Armenia as commander governor as a replacement for Hasan (ibn Kahtaba 08Ghev1    36:2 | one of His worthy servants, a certain priest. For (this priest 08Ghev1    36:2 | priest. For (this priest) had a vision a few days before 08Ghev1    36:2 | this priest) had a vision a few days before (the caliph’s 08Ghev1    36:2 | the place of his torments, a deep prison sealed off with 08Ghev1    37:4 | of the Byzantines. He assembled a force which he entrusted to 08Ghev1    37:5 | troops, the emperor quickly sent a large force against Basanastan, which 08Ghev1    37:5 | from the Mamikonean House, plus a third who was from the 08Ghev1    37:6 | they also took into captivity a multitude of common folk. They 08Ghev1    38:2 | upset. Instead, he calmly wrote a reply: “Man does not secure 08Ghev1    39:3 | earlier, had previously come as a fugitive to the Emperor Constantine 08Ghev1    39:6 | by the Byzantines, (Tachat) requested a written oath from them so 08Ghev1    39:10 | rule, for he might be a traitor in our forces 08Ghev1    39:12 | Mahdi) and his son Harun a great disquiet was visited upon 08Ghev1    39:13 | Darband by the Caspian Gates, ( a city) well fortified with a 08Ghev1    39:13 | a city) well fortified with a wall which was built to 08Ghev1    39:17 | Uthman’s) rule and sent as a replacement a certain prince named 08Ghev1    39:17 | and sent as a replacement a certain prince named Rauh (R’oh 08Ghev1    40:1 | He was a wanton, impudent and possessed person 08Ghev1    40:2 | authority (as caliph) he sent a certain Khouzaima (Xazm) (ibn Khazim 08Ghev1    40:6 | read out, the captives asked a man named K’ubeida, who was 08Ghev1    40:6 | was sympathetic to them and a friend, if there was any 08Ghev1    40:13 | summoned them before him at a tribunal 08Ghev1    40:15 | beaten on the back with a cudgel so severely that his 08Ghev1    40:18 | order to kill them with a sword. When the executioners heard 08Ghev1    40:20 | tossed into the waters of a river. According to the words 08Ghev1    40:20 | they will be richly rewarded a hundredfold with glory, as the 08Ghev1    40:20 | for my name will receive a hundredfold more in this world 08Ghev1    40:22 | and cut in two at a tender age 08Ghev1    40:23 | death, he was regarded as a sacrificial lamb. After working all 08Ghev1    40:23 | this evil, (al-Hadi) perished a year later 08Ghev1    41:0 | Musa (al-Hadi), and was a greedy, money-loving man 08Ghev1    41:2 | The first of these was a certain Yazid, the son of 08Ghev1    41:3 | Following him was a certain Sulaiman (Sulaiman ibn al 08Ghev1    41:3 | ibn al-’Amri), [788-790] who was a greedy malefactor and the worst 08Ghev1    41:5 | Dwin his son-in-law, a certain Ibn Ducas (Ibndoke’), an 08Ghev1    42:2 | starving, and unable to make a living, (people) fled to Byzantine 08Ghev1    42:4 | area and it flows in a northwesterly direction crossing through Egeria 08Ghev1    43:2 | the honorable Mamikonean House desired ( a copy of this work) and 09Draskh1    1:1 | assisted by God and emboldened a little in small things with 09Draskh1    1:3 | that men have, and with a true understanding of thoughts they 09Draskh1    1:4 | thenceforth, as if forced by a certain captain, I rapidly sailed 09Draskh1    1:10 | narrative, I shall briefly compose a genealogy (of his generations): namely 09Draskh1    1:14 | Although before us Shapuh Bagratuni, a historian of our times, has 09Draskh1    1:17 | King Smbat who died like a martyr by means of the 09Draskh1    1:20 | in an elegant manner receiving a throne from him, was properly 09Draskh1    1:24 | give the forefathers’ names in a different form from ours—for 09Draskh1    2:2 | own Japheth (Yabet’) at first a son was born and was 09Draskh1    2:9 | only to the extent that a fairly brief description might acquaint 09Draskh1    2:10 | said about these matters, and a clear account of past events 09Draskh1    2:11 | other kindred races as being a task in no way relevant 09Draskh1    2:15 | those of Sem, we derive a period of four hundred years 09Draskh1    2:15 | first man, Adam, there is a period of [2242] years 09Draskh1    2:17 | A certain Mar Abas Katina, a 09Draskh1    2:17 | A certain Mar Abas Katina, a man of Syrian extraction, proficient 09Draskh1    2:17 | his search he found there a trustworthy book that had been 09Draskh1    2:17 | histories of other nations as a vain effort, and excerpting only 09Draskh1    2:20 | to the Divine Scriptures, however, a terrible tempest, which arose seemingly 09Draskh1    3:3 | they encountered each other in a glen with a great tumult 09Draskh1    3:3 | other in a glen with a great tumult which was like 09Draskh1    3:5 | with building the land. After a long life he died, having 09Draskh1    3:6 | he went and lived in a beautiful plain which was seemingly 09Draskh1    3:7 | Then Aramaneak sired a son, Armayis, and having lived 09Draskh1    3:8 | On a hill along the bank of 09Draskh1    3:8 | the same plain Aramayis erected a city as his place of 09Draskh1    3:10 | for many years, Aramayis sired a son, Amasia, and died shortly 09Draskh1    3:11 | of the mountain Maseac’otn. After a few years he sired Gegham 09Draskh1    3:12 | northeast on the shores of a small sea. There he built 09Draskh1    3:14 | To Sisak he gave for a place of dwelling the southeastern 09Draskh1    3:14 | shores of the lake to a plain traversed by the river 09Draskh1    3:14 | penetrates the narrow passages of a cavern which is now called 09Draskh1    3:16 | begot Aram, and died after a few years 09Draskh1    3:23 | After a number of years, the lustful 09Draskh1    3:25 | deeds, who formerly ruled over a part of our land, and 09Draskh1    4:2 | have been magnificently crowned with a diadem 09Draskh1    4:8 | Nebuchadnezzar (to let him have) a certain Shambat, one of the 09Draskh1    4:15 | the Greeks in submission for a long period of time 09Draskh1    4:19 | Thus he was a very wise, virtuous, and assiduous 09Draskh1    4:27 | had easily come in as a native, and relinquished their own 09Draskh1    5:1 | certain others, if it is a must for you to know 09Draskh1    5:3 | subordinating also the Parthians through a violent war 09Draskh1    5:5 | These sovereigns ruled for a period of approximately sixty years 09Draskh1    5:6 | Arshak the Brave, a descendant of Abraham through the 09Draskh1    5:7 | he crowned his brother Vagharshak, a prudent, wise and valiant man 09Draskh1    5:10 | designated as his coronant Bagarat, a descendant of the Jewish Shambat 09Draskh1    5:18 | Now, after having established such a proper order, and having left 09Draskh1    5:18 | proper order, and having left a good and notable name for 09Draskh1    5:20 | blood of snakes, deep into a rock, and left it there 09Draskh1    5:20 | there to be observed as a symbol of his might 09Draskh1    5:25 | With a large army Artashes marched forth 09Draskh1    5:30 | against many nations. There, suddenly a great confusion rose among his 09Draskh1    6:3 | of Nectanebo (Nek’tanib) had built a long time ago at the 09Draskh1    6:3 | Mithridates adorned it, calling it a border town 09Draskh1    6:4 | Here he built a palace on the northern bank 09Draskh1    6:7 | though the latter had gathered a massive body of troops against 09Draskh1    6:9 | A short time later, Mithridates, being 09Draskh1    6:10 | sparapet of Armenia, who sent a certain Gnel of the Gnuni 09Draskh1    6:10 | of the Gnuni house with a large army to Palestine and 09Draskh1    6:11 | of the Jews, and with a great number of others brought 09Draskh1    6:12 | this, Tigran lived only for a short time, and died after 09Draskh1    6:12 | short time, and died after a reign of thirty-four years 09Draskh1    6:15 | But rather being a glutton and a slave of 09Draskh1    6:15 | rather being a glutton and a slave of the belly, he 09Draskh1    6:16 | from his sleep, he gathered a large army and marching into 09Draskh1    6:20 | his son Arshawir reigned; being a young child he could not 09Draskh1    6:21 | idols, or be hung on a cross and perish (together) with 09Draskh1    7:5 | Subsequently, he sent a nephew (brother’s son) of his 09Draskh1    7:5 | brother’s son) of his with a large army. Upon reaching Mesopotamia 09Draskh1    7:8 | As a wise man Abgar went to 09Draskh1    7:9 | sister’s) Aspahapeti Pahlaw. Subsequently, at a later time, the blessed Enlightener 09Draskh1    7:10 | Abgar’s body was infected by a severe malady 09Draskh1    7:11 | about this), the latter wrote a letter of supplication (to Christ 09Draskh1    7:16 | before the king, who noticed a miraculous sign on his face 09Draskh1    7:18 | The blessed Thaddeus ordained a certain Adde, a mitre maker 09Draskh1    7:18 | Thaddeus ordained a certain Adde, a mitre maker, and having left 09Draskh1    8:1 | who had entrusted himself to a great hope and partaken in 09Draskh1    8:2 | renounced his faith, and after a short period of time put 09Draskh1    8:3 | were also buried there as a source of pride to the 09Draskh1    8:3 | the Armenian people and as a cure for all those that 09Draskh1    8:7 | Anak, and Armenia was in a state of anarchy, a certain 09Draskh1    8:7 | in a state of anarchy, a certain Barlah came from the 09Draskh1    8:9 | Trinity shining within him like a ray of light, he cured 09Draskh1    8:10 | for those of us) here a minister of holiness and our 09Draskh1    8:10 | accordance with the gospel, and a forefather 09Draskh1    8:11 | honored the holy patriarch like a living martyr with gracious and 09Draskh1    8:11 | him and Trdat mount on a gold plated cart and saw 09Draskh1    9:2 | For this reason a council of bishops met in 09Draskh1    9:3 | impiety, since he died (as a result of) his bowels gushing 09Draskh1    9:5 | what is written, namely that a chaste person seeks solitude as 09Draskh1    9:5 | chaste person seeks solitude as a ship in trouble hastens to 09Draskh1    10:1 | throne, pursued in every way a holy and a righteous course 09Draskh1    10:1 | every way a holy and a righteous course by trying to 09Draskh1    10:1 | the Holy Spirit girded like a sword upon his thigh and 09Draskh1    10:2 | Among them was a certain Ark’eghayos, the prefect of 09Draskh1    10:2 | chanced upon the saint on a certain highway in the province 09Draskh1    10:4 | occupied the patriarchal see for a period of seven years. Perhaps 09Draskh1    10:4 | should not consider his internment a burial but an assumption from 09Draskh1    10:6 | who had found him in a state of poverty 09Draskh1    10:7 | Then, after many years, a certain hermit by the name 09Draskh1    10:8 | After a few years the blessed king 09Draskh1    10:8 | disobedient nature, and was given a deadly drink. His body was 09Draskh1    11:2 | received the blessed man in a proper manner and carrying out 09Draskh1    11:11 | Thereat Tiran went into a wicked rage and ordered Yusik 09Draskh1    11:12 | cursed the king for such a wicked knavery suffocated. He was 09Draskh1    11:14 | Yusik, Pap and At’anagine, contrived a horrible destruction for themselves because 09Draskh1    11:14 | At’anagine alone was survived by a small child called Nerses who 09Draskh1    11:15 | of Saint Grigor, they chose a certain P’arnerseh from Astishat and 09Draskh1    12:1 | Spirit in the shape of a dove descended on his head 09Draskh1    12:3 | comforted. For them he set a pension (that was collected) from 09Draskh1    12:7 | For a short time before this Constantius 09Draskh1    12:7 | this, he had set up a patriarch in Constantinople 09Draskh1    12:15 | his brother Trdat, who was a hostage, to be put to 09Draskh1    12:15 | was honored by Valentinian in a manner befitting patriarchs and receiving 09Draskh1    12:16 | the great general Theodosius with a large army against King Arshak 09Draskh1    12:17 | him with his clerics to a distant island where no provisions 09Draskh1    12:17 | to be found even for a day’s survival. Nevertheless, at the 09Draskh1    12:18 | There is a rumor about the impious Valens 09Draskh1    12:19 | After him Theodosius the Great, a pious and a godly man 09Draskh1    12:19 | the Great, a pious and a godly man, took over the 09Draskh1    12:20 | And then a council of altogether one hundred 09Draskh1    13:1 | of Anush, where Arshak pierced a sword through his heart and 09Draskh1    13:4 | rod into the shape of a crown and exposing it to 09Draskh1    13:6 | the open, Pap served Nerses a deadly drink in the village 09Draskh1    13:7 | placed on the throne Shahak, a descendant of Aghbianos and a 09Draskh1    13:7 | a descendant of Aghbianos and a praiseworthy man endowed with virtue 09Draskh1    13:8 | instead he set up Varazdat, a descendant of the Arshakuni house 09Draskh1    13:11 | of Arshak, Zawen died after a pontificate of three years and 09Draskh1    13:12 | king of Persia made Xosrov, a certain Arshakuni, king in his 09Draskh1    13:14 | Mesrop from Hac’ekac’ in Taron, a pupil of Nerses the Great 09Draskh1    13:14 | of Nerses the Great and a clerk at the royal court 09Draskh1    14:2 | And since Sahak was indeed a virtuous offspring (of his ancestors 09Draskh1    14:14 | looked scornfully at him with a mind not to accept him 09Draskh1    14:17 | king into the hands of a heathen monarch, because he hoped 09Draskh1    14:18 | with holy baptism; he is a prostitute, but a Christian; he 09Draskh1    14:18 | he is a prostitute, but a Christian; he is debauched in 09Draskh1    14:18 | wanton in conduct, but not a fire-worshipper 09Draskh1    14:19 | exchange his diseased sheep for a healthy beast 09Draskh1    14:20 | especially Surmak who had made a murderous sword out of his 09Draskh1    14:21 | Artashir in prison, and placed a Persian marzpan in charge of 09Draskh1    14:21 | After him Vram set up a certain Syrian by the name 09Draskh1    14:21 | of Brgishoy, an impudent and a rapacious man, who managed his 09Draskh1    14:22 | name of Shmuel, who was a follower of Brgishoy’s conduct, especially 09Draskh1    14:24 | the village called Blur. In a mortal frame he displayed the 09Draskh1    14:26 | the celestial powers. Over him a wonderful sign flashed, a crosslike 09Draskh1    14:26 | him a wonderful sign flashed, a crosslike radiance of light, which 09Draskh1    14:26 | of light, which remained for a long time, until they carried 09Draskh1    15:2 | the city of Dvin, ordered a temple of Ormizd and a 09Draskh1    15:2 | a temple of Ormizd and a house of fire-worship to 09Draskh1    15:3 | killed the impious Shawasp with a lightning stroke of the sword 09Draskh1    15:4 | his son Sheroy hanged from a pole on top of the 09Draskh1    15:4 | of the altar he built a large church in the name 09Draskh1    15:4 | the flock of Christ without a pastor lest the heathen wolves 09Draskh1    15:7 | occupied the patriarchal see for a period of eight years. With 09Draskh1    16:5 | of Persia. As he was a man who heeded people with 09Draskh1    16:9 | kingdom of the Greeks. With a similar or perhaps even greater 09Draskh1    16:9 | greater love of truth and a life pleasing to God he 09Draskh1    16:10 | great patriarch of Armenia, held a council of the Armenian, Iberian 09Draskh1    16:21 | and sent them against Vardan. A fierce battle was fought in 09Draskh1    16:22 | in the district of Beshapuh, a magian by race who at 09Draskh1    16:22 | the katholikos’ residence and built a holy martyrium with polished stones 09Draskh1    16:24 | set as patriarch of Armenia a certain Yovhannes of the Gabeghean 09Draskh1    16:25 | throne of Saint Grigor Movses, a man of God, who was 09Draskh1    16:26 | the Armenian era which is a perpetual cycle and the foundation 09Draskh1    16:26 | art. Thus, being endowed with a calendar of the annual feasts 09Draskh1    16:36 | However, since a certain prince Vahram plotted against 09Draskh1    17:5 | great patriarch Movses to set a certain elder by the name 09Draskh1    17:6 | organized those who were in a distant land into a prelacy 09Draskh1    17:6 | in a distant land into a prelacy of the great see 09Draskh1    17:9 | land, he found Armenia without a prelate, since the great patriarch 09Draskh1    17:9 | the holy church, which is a beautiful structure built with polished 09Draskh1    17:10 | that the church would be a menace to the fortress, but 09Draskh1    17:11 | virtuous works endeavored to find a way to convert Kiwrion and 09Draskh1    17:13 | the great patriarch Abraham held a council of many bishops in 09Draskh1    17:13 | to God and comprehending with a thorough understanding the true profession 09Draskh1    17:15 | Emperor Maurice they set up a certain Yovhan, who was from 09Draskh1    17:15 | of Awan. There Yovhan built a holy church with a superb 09Draskh1    17:15 | built a holy church with a superb structure and around it 09Draskh1    17:21 | The latter marched with a great many forces to Basean 09Draskh1    17:21 | to subdue the Armenians. But a certain Ashot who came to 09Draskh1    17:24 | course of his life (after a pontificate of) twenty-three years 09Draskh1    17:26 | all the male population with a horrible massacre and took many 09Draskh1    17:27 | Hrip’simeank’ which formerly had been a dark and small building, with 09Draskh1    17:27 | dark and small building, with a more wonderful befitting respectable and 09Draskh1    17:27 | blessed lady Hrip’sime that became a source of much spiritual consolation 09Draskh1    17:34 | set on the patriarchal throne a certain K’ristap’or from the Abrahamean 09Draskh1    17:35 | say that the latter possessed a slanderous tongue which instigated the 09Draskh1    17:37 | katholikos) went away and built a hermitage near the village of 09Draskh1    18:1 | son Artashir who was of a tender age 09Draskh1    18:3 | her death (they set up) a certain Xosrov of the family 09Draskh1    18:8 | emperor, they sought from him a signed statement of faith. He 09Draskh1    18:8 | immediately wrote and gave them ( a document wherein) he had anathematized 09Draskh1    18:9 | the imperial signature concealed like a bushel. They were betrayed and 09Draskh1    18:10 | the emperor and, accepting as a gift one third of the 09Draskh1    18:14 | greeting or bowing down before a man who has undone the 09Draskh1    18:22 | A slanderous rumor about him holds 09Draskh1    18:22 | he allegedly tried to introduce a wicked heresy into the holy 09Draskh1    18:22 | I cannot agree that such a man could in any way 09Draskh1    18:24 | attribute the sprouting of such a wicked heresy to his disciple 09Draskh1    18:25 | dark, torn down and had a larger and more magnificent edifice 09Draskh1    18:25 | the church) he arranged for a place of habitation for the 09Draskh1    19:9 | Now, when the Hagarites became a large force they completely vanquished 09Draskh1    19:13 | Like the consuming flames of a blazing fire they quickly reached 09Draskh1    19:15 | the ability to administer such a high office 09Draskh1    19:18 | After this, he built a sanctuary over the pit where 09Draskh1    19:19 | wonderful enthusiasm the foundations of a large beautiful and most magnificent 09Draskh1    19:21 | seal of Christ, not in a niche but out in the 09Draskh1    19:21 | out in the open in a cabinet in the divine treasury 09Draskh1    19:24 | and crossing the sea with a large multitude proceeded in a 09Draskh1    19:24 | a large multitude proceeded in a southeasterly direction to Persia, Sagastan 09Draskh1    19:26 | general Vaghentin, who arrived in a short time, put both Mardine 09Draskh1    19:29 | Thus our land was given a ruler and became temporarily secure 09Draskh1    19:30 | the South was torn, and a new south gale, the death 09Draskh1    19:31 | Thereafter, in a few years’ time, the swift 09Draskh1    19:33 | The Emperor, however, gathered a large force and came to 09Draskh1    19:37 | willingly or unwillingly, they provided a cause for outrage among many 09Draskh1    19:41 | prior to this he ordered a council of bishops, who being 09Draskh1    19:41 | one mind with him signed a document anathematizing all the heretics 09Draskh1    19:46 | Armenia Hamazasp Mamikonean who was a studious person fond of learning 09Draskh1    19:48 | he populated the place with a great many serfs (erdumardac’) in 09Draskh1    19:51 | From that day a spirit of discord was sent 09Draskh1    19:51 | cut down one another in a terrible carnage. They also killed 09Draskh1    20:4 | The latter was a pious and a God-fearing 09Draskh1    20:4 | latter was a pious and a God-fearing man, the author 09Draskh1    20:4 | matched accomplishments. Although he was a layman, he conducted himself as 09Draskh1    20:4 | as if he were in a hermitage and strove for every 09Draskh1    20:5 | Then, after a pontificate of twenty years, the 09Draskh1    20:9 | it built in haste as a celestial abode on earth. To 09Draskh1    20:9 | of the rocky glen, where a limpid spring gushed bubbling through 09Draskh1    20:9 | it covered the edge like a parapet on a bastion 09Draskh1    20:9 | edge like a parapet on a bastion 09Draskh1    20:10 | And then, encircling it with a wall built with well-fastened 09Draskh1    20:10 | the order of celibate priests a sanctuary wherein he raised a 09Draskh1    20:10 | a sanctuary wherein he raised a magnificent church to the east 09Draskh1    20:11 | residence, and set it as a domicile for the congregation of 09Draskh1    20:13 | province (nahang) of Kotayk’. After a number of years he received 09Draskh1    20:17 | the reforms in operation by a council of bishops, the end 09Draskh1    20:19 | Iberia, massacred (the troops) of a certain Barabay, the commander of 09Draskh1    20:23 | Thenceforth peace was disturbed and a severe tremor jolted the people 09Draskh1    20:25 | At this time a certain Mruan (Marwan), an Ishmaelite 09Draskh1    20:28 | the name of Abdllah (‘Abdullah), a wicked, insolent and an impudent 09Draskh1    20:28 | hypocrisy like the venom of a serpent and tortured the princes 09Draskh1    20:31 | Abdllah had him nailed to a wooden board and shot an 09Draskh1    21:2 | very day the Hagarites have a saying in their barbarous language 09Draskh1    21:4 | And while a certain Ogbay (‘Okbay), a great 09Draskh1    21:4 | while a certain Ogbay (‘Okbay), a great commander, was wandering with 09Draskh1    21:4 | great commander, was wandering with a large army around the region 09Draskh1    21:5 | arms, (armaments and the lance) a large force and boasted with 09Draskh1    21:6 | hoping that he might find a way of dissuading him from 09Draskh1    21:7 | his own hand he wrote a letter of supplication with implorations 09Draskh1    21:7 | and hastily puts him in a coffin. Moreover, reminding him of 09Draskh1    21:7 | himself was to die in a foreign land, so that he 09Draskh1    21:13 | He wrote a letter to the naxarars of 09Draskh1    21:14 | the help of his prayers a great salvation came to our 09Draskh1    21:17 | that were in Armenia burned a fire in our midst, since 09Draskh1    21:21 | Thus, our land became a sea of tears, and was 09Draskh1    21:21 | his brother Sulayman ruled for a short time, and after him 09Draskh1    21:21 | the same (‘Umar), and suffering a great deal in the name 09Draskh1    22:1 | of the great patriarch Eghia, a certain Nerses, who was at 09Draskh1    22:1 | the wicked Chalcedonian heresy, and a certain princess, who was at 09Draskh1    22:3 | of his ability, and for a second and a third time 09Draskh1    22:3 | and for a second and a third time sent them many 09Draskh1    22:4 | heart, the great Eghia wrote a letter to the Ishmaelite caliph 09Draskh1    22:4 | of the following), “There is a bishop here in our country 09Draskh1    22:4 | in our country, and also a princess, his accomplice, who have 09Draskh1    22:10 | predicates, both those that form a unity and those that do 09Draskh1    22:11 | the Church of Christ. With a beautiful style he enriched the 09Draskh1    22:14 | quality. Moreover, grinding gold with a file and mixing it with 09Draskh1    22:15 | so that he might be a source of joy to the 09Draskh1    22:16 | then, (by the same token) a man could more so astonish 09Draskh1    22:18 | For a certain ostikan of Armenia, one 09Draskh1    22:21 | setting his gray beard like a golden bouquet, he took into 09Draskh1    22:22 | august stature. Then he ordered a chair for him to sit 09Draskh1    22:24 | from us, as if by a curtain, yet, the miraculous signs 09Draskh1    22:27 | men to step out for a short while 09Draskh1    22:31 | to Armenia, he lived for a few years, and died after 09Draskh1    23:2 | bequeathed it to him as a soulscot. Trdat’s edict has been 09Draskh1    23:3 | in the village of Aramonk’ a church, which he adorned properly 09Draskh1    23:3 | he adorned properly, and raised a suitable house in its vicinity 09Draskh1    23:3 | in its vicinity. There living a virtuous life for thirteen years 09Draskh1    23:4 | from the village of Ot’mus, a saintly and chaste man, shining 09Draskh1    23:10 | tending to his faithful flock, a spring with copious waters (located 09Draskh1    23:11 | and it was reduced to a state of desolation 09Draskh1    23:12 | the province at that time, a man by the name of 09Draskh1    23:12 | and begged him to find a way of making the waters 09Draskh1    23:13 | in concert the Nocturns on a ( Saturday) night when Sunday was 09Draskh1    23:18 | After a most wonderful and solitary career 09Draskh1    23:21 | was the only child of a widow; reduced to a state 09Draskh1    23:21 | of a widow; reduced to a state of penury and wandering 09Draskh1    23:24 | The woman was almost like a prophetess concerning her child, for 09Draskh1    23:25 | After presiding with virtue for a period of thirteen years, he 09Draskh1    23:26 | they set up as prelate a certain Step’anos who was from 09Draskh1    24:1 | the caliph sent to Armenia a certain Yazid as governor (ostikan 09Draskh1    24:3 | he cunningly tried to find a way of appropriating the divine 09Draskh1    24:4 | of his servants strangled by a secret plot, and cast during 09Draskh1    24:4 | course of the night into a large and deep pit, whose 09Draskh1    24:5 | of the matter, he conducted a search for the smothered corpse 09Draskh1    24:6 | the man-eating criminal raised a shrill cry, and held the 09Draskh1    24:6 | men without any trial before a tribunal 09Draskh1    24:12 | accompanied him, and having become a monk there, he spent his 09Draskh1    24:12 | he spent his days in a cell, where he devoted himself 09Draskh1    24:17 | subservient to their sway—as a result of this, accounts concerning 09Draskh1    24:20 | the pontificate of this patriarch, a certain governor (ostikan) named Khuzaima 09Draskh1    24:21 | to him as though against a payment in silver 09Draskh1    24:23 | fetters, had him beaten with a club, so that out of 09Draskh1    24:24 | him, nor did he give a thought to being beaten with 09Draskh1    24:30 | The patriarch Yovsep’ died after a pontificate of eleven years 09Draskh1    25:1 | the caliph sent to Armenia a governor named Khalid (Hawl) with 09Draskh1    25:1 | governor named Khalid (Hawl) with a small force. (After his arrival 09Draskh1    25:2 | But a certain Sawada, a man of 09Draskh1    25:2 | But a certain Sawada, a man of Persian extraction, who 09Draskh1    25:2 | who had taken as wife ( a princess) of the Bagratuni house 09Draskh1    25:3 | envious of him, Sawada sent a considerable army against him. Among 09Draskh1    25:3 | azat lords. Then, Sawada formed a plan either to snare Khalid 09Draskh1    25:11 | he had it buried in a grave near the holy church 09Draskh1    25:13 | fulfilled and he died after a pontificate of [27] years 09Draskh1    25:15 | After a period of eight years had 09Draskh1    25:18 | prince, he checked Bagarat with a stroke of the spiritual sword 09Draskh1    25:19 | they came together and held a synod of bishops, where they 09Draskh1    25:22 | slanderers (of Yovhannes) all met a violent death brought upon them 09Draskh1    25:22 | of God. One fell from a high cliff, and his body 09Draskh1    25:23 | Another fell from a high roof in the course 09Draskh1    25:24 | A third one falling into the 09Draskh1    25:24 | not even be buried in a grave 09Draskh1    25:26 | Ja’far (Jap’r) sent to Armenia a governor by the name of 09Draskh1    25:28 | one place, and uniting in a single body, suddenly fell in 09Draskh1    25:40 | of his kinsmen, and after a few days of confinement, sent 09Draskh1    25:41 | sword in hand or raised a weapon 09Draskh1    25:42 | performed the same atrocities. In a like manner, they segregated those 09Draskh1    25:47 | Whenever the latter came across a body of soldiers that might 09Draskh1    25:54 | was full of indignation like a wicked beast. He ordered them 09Draskh1    25:54 | so that they might have a change of heart and forsake 09Draskh1    25:63 | remained hanging as if from a cross, the blessed Atom heartened 09Draskh1    25:65 | my hope, I come as a pilgrim to the annual feast 09Draskh1    25:65 | martyr George (Georg) to offer a scapegoat as a sacrifice to 09Draskh1    25:65 | to offer a scapegoat as a sacrifice to the glory of 09Draskh1    25:65 | I shall offer myself as a sacrifice to you 09Draskh1    25:70 | The great patriarch Yovhannes designated a memorial day for all of 09Draskh1    26:8 | occupied the patriarchal see for a period of twenty-two years 09Draskh1    26:10 | first ordered the calling of a synod of bishops in the 09Draskh1    26:18 | After a few days, all the imprisoned 09Draskh1    26:20 | the pleasures of sin for a season 09Draskh1    26:21 | which he had received as a precious gift through the grace 09Draskh1    26:21 | of baptism and to embrace a foreign, impious belief. He fearlessly 09Draskh1    26:23 | corporeal death, so that dying a natural death, he was not 09Draskh1    26:23 | holy laws of Christ. Like a martyr he fulfilled within his 09Draskh1    27:1 | upon the simpler (events) in a limited way 09Draskh1    27:2 | the narrative of Shapuh Bagratuni, a historian of our own times 09Draskh1    27:2 | own times, who has given a precise account of the succession 09Draskh1    27:2 | Smbat, that is to say, a history of his years as 09Draskh1    27:4 | form, or to give briefly a complete analysis of the evidence 09Draskh1    27:6 | the History of Shapuh gives a sufficient account of the might 09Draskh1    27:6 | the time when he was a young man 09Draskh1    27:10 | Subsequently, a governor named ’Ali Armani was 09Draskh1    27:11 | with him, as if with a true scion of royalty 09Draskh1    27:12 | Whenever a suitable occasion presented itself, all 09Draskh1    27:13 | At this time, a severe earthquake in the city 09Draskh1    27:13 | that no one remained under a roof, but lamenting their hardships 09Draskh1    28:2 | of Armenia his brother Abas, a brave man, sturdy, vigorous and 09Draskh1    28:4 | He was a proud man, prudent, and haughty 09Draskh1    28:6 | and made his ancestral domain a safe place, secure from all 09Draskh1    28:8 | as precepts, whereby he brought a greater degree of prosperity on 09Draskh1    29:1 | presiding prince Ashot that comprise a sequel 09Draskh1    29:2 | great stature, tall, robust, with a cheerful countenance surmounted by dark 09Draskh1    29:2 | by dark eyebrows. He had a speckle of blood in his 09Draskh1    29:2 | of blood in his eye, a red ruby glowing in the 09Draskh1    29:3 | He spread his care like a mantle over everyone. He held 09Draskh1    29:5 | the caliph sent to Ashot a royal crown, which the governor 09Draskh1    29:12 | an alliance with and paid a visit to the king of 09Draskh1    29:12 | king of Egrisi, who as a constant vassal of Ashot faithfully 09Draskh1    29:17 | prince, treacherously concealed troops in a ravine in the vineyard 09Draskh1    29:22 | ishxanik, he died after living a godly and pious life, and 09Draskh1    30:2 | understanding of his soul with a zeal no less than that 09Draskh1    30:5 | self of man. Subsequently, at a ripe old age he rested 09Draskh1    30:6 | road, in an inn at a rocky place called K’arsparn, they 09Draskh1    30:6 | carried away his body in a coffin and brought it to 09Draskh1    30:8 | non-ramiks (anramik). Then, building a tomb (suitable) for royalty, they 09Draskh1    30:11 | and that it might be a cause for confusion and turmoil 09Draskh1    30:21 | Then Smbat, assembling a large force, raided the extensive 09Draskh1    30:21 | to the fortress as to a prison cell for many days 09Draskh1    30:22 | asked him to send as a hostage his son, who was 09Draskh1    30:24 | return, Smbat was presented with a royal diadem at the order 09Draskh1    30:26 | given to Smbat. Bearing therefore a feeling of ill will, he 09Draskh1    30:29 | conspiracy. He, therefore, wrote him a letter in which he first 09Draskh1    30:34 | our incompetence, lead us into a divergent path, let us not 09Draskh1    30:40 | it is impossible to identify a transgression, as (it is impossible 09Draskh1    30:40 | to trace) the path of a snake creeping among the rock 09Draskh1    30:40 | snake creeping among the rock. A sure witness to this is 09Draskh1    30:41 | is among the ramiks, whereas, a minute vacillation on the part 09Draskh1    30:41 | vacillation on the part of a man of distinction and high 09Draskh1    30:41 | the calamitous outcome of such a misdeed, should it occur 09Draskh1    30:42 | But I am a sinful and a weak man 09Draskh1    30:42 | I am a sinful and a weak man; for my transgressions 09Draskh1    30:43 | wrote with many tears and a heart stricken with grief 09Draskh1    30:47 | God, and be banished for a crime that is unforgivable and 09Draskh1    30:50 | this reason He has set a day, when He will pass 09Draskh1    30:51 | form, as (one would use) a plough for tilling or dropper 09Draskh1    30:56 | you order that there be a meeting, let it not be 09Draskh1    30:58 | and groans they established as a mediator the Holy Gospels, so 09Draskh1    30:66 | the impious witnesses—who like a sharpened razor wrought deceit, loved 09Draskh1    30:66 | are preserved in writing as a measure of precaution for posterity 09Draskh1    30:68 | that the man who is a detestable deserter cannot become a 09Draskh1    30:68 | a detestable deserter cannot become a witness and come forth before 09Draskh1    30:68 | his face like that of a whore, and is no longer 09Draskh1    30:68 | and is no longer considered a human being 09Draskh1    30:69 | to the priest cannot become a witness, until the end of 09Draskh1    30:80 | letter with great awe as a memorial for you who are 09Draskh1    31:1 | Placing his kingdom on a firm foundation, Smbat tried to 09Draskh1    31:2 | gold studded with gems. But a greater honor than these was 09Draskh1    31:2 | beloved son” by means of a treaty of friendship 09Draskh1    31:3 | which he suspected to be) a plot against himself. He made 09Draskh1    31:11 | He then laid a furious siege against them, and 09Draskh1    31:11 | he frequently carried out over a period of two years so 09Draskh1    31:16 | used valiantly in battle as a sign of victory 09Draskh1    32:7 | ascetic life, wrote as follows a letter to the afflicted who 09Draskh1    32:11 | their own dwellings as in a tomb 09Draskh1    32:13 | in retribution. For there was a time when being of good 09Draskh1    32:21 | and make you hopeful for a pure heart; He shall give 09Draskh1    32:22 | read in the presence of a great multitude, and the rest 09Draskh1    32:24 | ways which proved for us a stumbling-block 09Draskh1    33:1 | of the northern nations by a mighty hand, and the submission 09Draskh1    33:5 | summons and assembled together with a large army 09Draskh1    33:13 | archers with well bent bows; a warrior would strike his adversary 09Draskh1    33:17 | him his towel, or hold a basin before him, or bring 09Draskh1    33:19 | He put his seal on a solemn oath, whereby upon his 09Draskh1    33:23 | tended to the katholikos like a servant, and sent him to 09Draskh1    34:3 | hand, observed silence, and awaiting a probable change of attitude on 09Draskh1    34:4 | A few days later, the great 09Draskh1    34:6 | him with loving tenderness as a beloved son, and bestowed on 09Draskh1    34:10 | of the Arcruni family and a secretly converted Christian, who ruled 09Draskh1    34:11 | After a few years, Dawit’ Bagratuni, the 09Draskh1    34:15 | As there was a secret agreement between Ahmad and 09Draskh1    34:17 | double dealing, and having set a definite time, asked him to 09Draskh1    34:18 | their exhausting march, hardly reached a rivulet called Tc’ughx in a 09Draskh1    34:18 | a rivulet called Tc’ughx in a certain village, where they remained 09Draskh1    34:20 | certain others who marched at a gallop and putting the enemy 09Draskh1    34:21 | of other wicked snares. Raising a tumult in the entire army 09Draskh1    34:23 | Ashot, a comely, inexperienced and innocent youth 09Draskh1    34:25 | his heart as if under a bushel, without realizing that there 09Draskh1    34:26 | accordance with the maxim that “ a ( cheerful) countenance reflects a merry 09Draskh1    34:26 | that “a (cheerful) countenance reflects a merry heart 09Draskh1    34:27 | on his mule, he made a tour of the place 09Draskh1    34:31 | when Gurgen had mounted on a swift horse, which he admired 09Draskh1    34:31 | as he happened to cross a small ravine, the steed galloped 09Draskh1    35:1 | wicked thoughts, he rose with a roar, and set out like 09Draskh1    35:1 | roar, and set out like a violent torrent to come and 09Draskh1    35:5 | by the name of Hasan, a very trustworthy fellow and overseer 09Draskh1    35:5 | of the king. He was a member of Gnt’uni house of 09Draskh1    35:6 | providence, he demanded from Afshin a solemn oath, assuring them safety 09Draskh1    35:8 | inhabitants of the fortresses of a seemingly huge and ferocious beast 09Draskh1    35:8 | of the royal household, and a small number of noble (azat 09Draskh1    35:8 | respect, so much so, that a short time afterwards he even 09Draskh1    35:10 | he could not decide on a quarter in that region due 09Draskh1    36:2 | gifts, and honored him like a close relative 09Draskh1    36:8 | Yovhannes, who wrote this book, a pitiable and wretched man, eager 09Draskh1    36:10 | Although I had been a disciple of the blessed Mashtoc’ 09Draskh1    36:10 | I think that I was a foremost authority on the laws 09Draskh1    36:11 | opposition were even better than a choice sacrifice, I was elevated 09Draskh1    36:12 | the komopolis of Erazgawork’ at a site near his royal palace 09Draskh1    36:14 | himself to the king like a son to his father, or 09Draskh1    36:14 | more evident than this, like a servant willingly overwhelmed by the 09Draskh1    37:1 | of Tiflis from where like a storm he suddenly attacked the 09Draskh1    37:2 | this, the king immediately mustered a small force, and with great 09Draskh1    37:4 | to bind (the king) with a treaty of friendship exempt from 09Draskh1    37:12 | city of Dvin and received a stipend (rochik) from king Smbat 09Draskh1    37:12 | rochik) from king Smbat for a period of a little less 09Draskh1    37:12 | Smbat for a period of a little less than a year 09Draskh1    37:12 | of a little less than a year 09Draskh1    37:13 | toward wickedness. He marched with a large force against Georg, the 09Draskh1    37:16 | life for irreparable destruction and a worthless life. Consequently, by being 09Draskh1    37:17 | king’s son Ashot who was a hostage together with the wife 09Draskh1    37:20 | he roared with anger like a beast released from its cage 09Draskh1    37:20 | He threatened the king with a greater storm and a worse 09Draskh1    37:20 | with a greater storm and a worse torrent of wickedness 09Draskh1    38:1 | Sennacherib, set out to make a tour of his own domain 09Draskh1    38:1 | of his own domain with a small army, and having reached 09Draskh1    38:1 | small army, and having reached a glen called P’orak Lmbay, he 09Draskh1    38:5 | in his hand, leaped like a deer onto the roof of 09Draskh1    38:7 | they fled and vanished without a trace, like smoke blown away 09Draskh1    38:13 | I acquired from the prince a solemn oath promising to release 09Draskh1    38:14 | and cannot acquire for themselves a secure life 09Draskh1    38:16 | stately, and handsome stature like a garment 09Draskh1    39:2 | Then, he wrote a letter, and sent envoys with 09Draskh1    39:4 | Then, he sent to Smbat a magnificent royal robe, a crown 09Draskh1    39:4 | Smbat a magnificent royal robe, a crown, a gem-studded belt 09Draskh1    39:4 | magnificent royal robe, a crown, a gem-studded belt made out 09Draskh1    39:4 | made out of pure gold, a precious sword and swift steeds 09Draskh1    39:9 | conducted the consecration ceremonies in a proper manner 09Draskh1    39:10 | church, on which he spent a great amount of money, and 09Draskh1    39:11 | A short time later, the king’s 09Draskh1    39:11 | ishxan ishxanac’) of Armenia, and a humble man with a sense 09Draskh1    39:11 | and a humble man with a sense of equanimity in all 09Draskh1    39:11 | take care of wordly necessities, a task which was entrusted to 09Draskh1    40:1 | secession of king Smbat as a very wicked act. Weighing his 09Draskh1    40:2 | back (on the caliph), gathered a large force. Then he set 09Draskh1    40:3 | of this, he sent forward a large force and occupied the 09Draskh1    40:6 | one of his venerable secretaries, a man of Syriac origin and 09Draskh1    40:6 | man of Syriac origin and a Christian by faith. By means 09Draskh1    40:6 | the king (the idea of a) treaty. He also removed from 09Draskh1    40:6 | that he would agree to a peaceful coexistence with Yusuf 09Draskh1    40:13 | and tassels, as well as a crown made out of gold 09Draskh1    40:13 | sapphire, and over which was a diadem studded with rows of 09Draskh1    40:14 | of the king he designated a new kind of distinction, by 09Draskh1    40:14 | of distinction, by sending him a steed swift like the wind 09Draskh1    40:14 | For his waist he provided a girdle studded with gems, and 09Draskh1    40:15 | ostikan with robes suitable for a man in my position, and 09Draskh1    40:15 | in my position, and received a mule richly adorned with gold 09Draskh1    40:16 | kirmiz, cups and musical instruments, a belt made out of pure 09Draskh1    40:18 | from thorns, and reaped fruits a hundredfold. At the time of 09Draskh1    40:21 | grace, granted to everyone abundantly a blissful state full of fruitful 09Draskh1    40:21 | state full of fruitful results. A fountain of goodness came forth 09Draskh1    40:22 | the Romans did not display a lesser degree of kindness toward 09Draskh1    40:23 | more august than himself and a real father 09Draskh1    41:1 | of Egrisi, conducted himself in a whimsical and arrogant manner, and 09Draskh1    41:2 | king of Iberia, immediately wrote a letter to the king of 09Draskh1    41:3 | Smbat marched against him with a large force, and also taking 09Draskh1    41:4 | withstand them, he retreated to a certain stronghold taking refuge there 09Draskh1    41:5 | and drove him forth like a kid, the very same man 09Draskh1    41:5 | out of his den like a lion threatening to tear to 09Draskh1    41:7 | kept Constantine in custody for a period of only four months 09Draskh1    41:10 | robes, placed on his head a golden crown studded with pearls 09Draskh1    41:10 | and girdled his waist with a golden belt set with gems 09Draskh1    42:2 | secretaries to king Smbat with a strict decree, (demanding) that he 09Draskh1    42:2 | venture to set forth with a large army in order to 09Draskh1    42:2 | and promising him to forego a year’s tribute to the court 09Draskh1    42:4 | the secretary, the king sent a confidential letter to the ostikan 09Draskh1    42:13 | naxarars, whose name was Hasan— a prince in charge (hramanatar) of 09Draskh1    42:13 | domain of the king, and a man against whom no one 09Draskh1    42:14 | He brought about a breach between the king and 09Draskh1    42:16 | Then they sent a certain man of the Hawuni 09Draskh1    42:16 | hiding their dark plot under a bushel, waited for the opportune 09Draskh1    42:17 | the district of Shirak with a large army 09Draskh1    42:21 | together as one, unified into a single soldiery clad in the 09Draskh1    42:23 | every man prepared to die a martyr’s death like David. They 09Draskh1    42:23 | flung stones not merely at a single mound of flesh, but 09Draskh1    43:1 | the loss of the city a personal grief 09Draskh1    43:2 | previously given the city as a gift to prince Smbat of 09Draskh1    43:4 | with joy, and gave him a royal crown, as well as 09Draskh1    43:5 | prince Gagik, bearing something like a crown, returned to his domain 09Draskh1    43:10 | me and confined me in a dark dungeon, which was surrounded 09Draskh1    43:11 | thus against me, suddenly, like a flying bird there arrived Gurgen 09Draskh1    43:11 | prostrating himself before him in a cleverly calculated manner, he offered 09Draskh1    43:12 | After a few months, in accordance with 09Draskh1    43:13 | Gagik did not realize that a blazing fire would spread in 09Draskh1    43:15 | winter, the ostikan drew up a large army, and with irreconcilable 09Draskh1    43:16 | Naxjawan, he remained there for a few days, until Gagik and 09Draskh1    43:22 | capital city of Dvin from a northeasterly direction 09Draskh1    44:1 | The ostikan Yusuf roared liked a wild lion throughout the entire 09Draskh1    44:4 | of the symbolic grain as a precaution against the severe famine 09Draskh1    44:6 | because he could not find a way of disengaging himself (from 09Draskh1    45:2 | warmer, the ostikan drew up a great number of troops to 09Draskh1    45:4 | Gagik, had pitched camp on a level plain in a valley 09Draskh1    45:4 | on a level plain in a valley at the foot of 09Draskh1    45:5 | enemy encountered them in such a way that against their wishes 09Draskh1    45:10 | prince (Mushegh), and held many a feast for his troops 09Draskh1    45:14 | Like a tempest, the deathly Ishmaelite winds 09Draskh1    45:14 | homes, disappeared whirling away like a dust storm. With the fierceness 09Draskh1    45:19 | In a third passage he (Isaiah) says 09Draskh1    45:21 | And, indeed, such a deathly and acrid stench rose 09Draskh1    46:1 | words into laments, and with a sad heart shall not hesitate 09Draskh1    46:3 | I will meet them (...] like a panther, and those that are 09Draskh1    46:6 | service. The latter gave him a deathly poison to drink, as 09Draskh1    46:6 | deathly poison to drink, as a result of which the prince 09Draskh1    46:10 | Subsequently, they killed in a similar manner certain azats, about 09Draskh1    46:12 | headlong to the ground, traversed a considerable distance, and suspending himself 09Draskh1    46:13 | guards could be heard and a force could be gathered to 09Draskh1    46:14 | in the land withdrew in a state of terror to the 09Draskh1    46:18 | those who could not have a taste of this life 09Draskh1    47:1 | if they possibly could find a way of escaping these afflictions 09Draskh1    47:1 | wish not to go to a foreign land, until the wrath 09Draskh1    47:2 | and their mother, who was a devout Christian and an ascetic 09Draskh1    47:4 | might possibly drive them to a state of desperation, so that 09Draskh1    47:4 | that being unable to find a place of refuge because of 09Draskh1    47:5 | whatever was left, and took a considerable amount of booty which 09Draskh1    47:7 | sister of king Smbat, and a woman renowned among the ascetics 09Draskh1    47:7 | holy manner of life, died. A few years later, after they 09Draskh1    47:7 | body and buried her in a grave near the church built 09Draskh1    47:8 | stand against him, he sent a detachment of wicked brigands throughout 09Draskh1    47:9 | together with his naxarars and a large army to the fortress 09Draskh1    48:6 | entreaties, because it was in a state of confusion at that 09Draskh1    48:9 | intrigues of the Hagarite, in a manner similar to that which 09Draskh1    48:12 | After a period of one year, the 09Draskh1    48:12 | many people to perish with a horrible tumult which resembled the 09Draskh1    48:13 | men in the fortress were a select lot, who skilfully calculated 09Draskh1    48:15 | with valor to life with a stricken conscience 09Draskh1    48:16 | having asked the ostikan for a solemn oath, he descended to 09Draskh1    48:18 | the king might possibly have a treasure stored away, and by 09Draskh1    48:18 | he could please him like a fruitful tree, and deceive him 09Draskh1    48:20 | For a short while Yusuf put a 09Draskh1    48:20 | a short while Yusuf put a stop to his vengeful and 09Draskh1    48:21 | prudent Gagik was stricken with a sense of shame because of 09Draskh1    49:1 | at all. Subsequently, he made a conspiracy to put him to 09Draskh1    49:1 | They had prepared for him a hellish prison, where, in accordance 09Draskh1    49:3 | After this, agitated like a boiling cauldron by the thoughts 09Draskh1    49:5 | ostikan wanted Smbat to have a violent death and gradually began 09Draskh1    49:7 | spared by them even to a small degree. Whenever he had 09Draskh1    49:7 | eucharist at the hands of a certain overseer (bishop?) of the 09Draskh1    49:10 | if to the press of a carpenter, and piled many pieces 09Draskh1    49:12 | torments, they decapitated him with a sword. He departed from this 09Draskh1    49:12 | departed from this life after a reign of twenty-two years 09Draskh1    49:13 | They stretched his cadaver on a pole, and crucified him in 09Draskh1    49:13 | the fortitude of dying like a martyr, in return for which 09Draskh1    49:14 | king had been crucified on a tall beam, some believers, as 09Draskh1    49:14 | believers, claimed to have seen a brilliant light gleaming like a 09Draskh1    49:14 | a brilliant light gleaming like a lamp with a radiant glitter 09Draskh1    49:14 | gleaming like a lamp with a radiant glitter far above the 09Draskh1    49:14 | of the king and bearing a resemblance to him. Those who 09Draskh1    50:5 | prison, they made preparations for a strong defense 09Draskh1    50:9 | father suffered the death of a martyr, Ashot, like an eagle 09Draskh1    50:9 | our land. At first, in a short period, he reconquered and 09Draskh1    50:19 | the position of honor of a monarch and entrusted the future 09Draskh1    51:13 | they cut them open with a sword from the chest down 09Draskh1    51:15 | then, with the stroke of a double-edged sword at the 09Draskh1    51:16 | direction of the head stooped a little over the cleavage at 09Draskh1    51:28 | the sabre-bearing executioners like a wall, and thus had the 09Draskh1    51:29 | present there, took notice of a comely and handsome youth by 09Draskh1    51:31 | presented himself to Christ as a reasonable sacrifice together with all 09Draskh1    51:38 | hope, and offer yourself as a reasonable sacrifice and votive immolation 09Draskh1    51:41 | the older brother also following a victorious war, and after fulfilling 09Draskh1    51:44 | their labor gave birth to a soul that was redeemed. Their 09Draskh1    51:50 | an account of these as a warning for all those who 09Draskh1    52:1 | compelled to utter words of a sorrowful nature, for the neighboring 09Draskh1    52:1 | cities, awans and villages in a prosperous state, and for this 09Draskh1    52:2 | calamities, which left them in a state of waste, desolation and 09Draskh1    52:3 | untrodden and barren, almost like a land through which men had 09Draskh1    52:4 | of booty, each one carried a proportional amount to his respective 09Draskh1    52:7 | make the attempt to find a solution to this misfortune, and 09Draskh1    52:7 | misfortune, and befittingly unite in a common brotherhood with one spirit 09Draskh1    52:9 | foot and became arrogant in a great rebellion 09Draskh1    52:16 | present disorder: “Before him is a garden of delight, and behind 09Draskh1    52:16 | of delight, and behind him a plain of desolation 09Draskh1    53:12 | continued (to scourge us) for a period of seven years. For 09Draskh1    53:16 | children to the enemy for a small amount of allowance, and 09Draskh1    53:19 | passers-by to extend them a piece of bread, and perished 09Draskh1    53:20 | they turned against them in a merciless and harsh manner, because 09Draskh1    53:26 | their mothers. Children begged for a piece of dry bread and 09Draskh1    53:31 | one could bury them in a grave 09Draskh1    53:33 | Thus death spread in a matter of few days, and 09Draskh1    53:34 | his guest and arranged for a generous allowance, yet, as my 09Draskh1    54:4 | of us, who are at a great distance from you, have 09Draskh1    54:4 | said in consolation for such a wickedness? How could righteousness follow 09Draskh1    54:16 | Armenia and Iberia, by making a solemn oath in regard to 09Draskh1    54:18 | the heathens. I also was a witness to the wailing, lamenting 09Draskh1    54:18 | spread over my heart like a net, and having recovered by 09Draskh1    54:23 | the sparapet by means of a clever declaration succumbed in every 09Draskh1    54:24 | He was victorious in many a contest and displayed heroic valor 09Draskh1    54:24 | of the brigands, and wrote a letter to the Emperor Constantine 09Draskh1    54:27 | enemy, and turned barren like a waterless desert, in the manner 09Draskh1    54:27 | desert, in the manner of a mother deprived of her children 09Draskh1    54:32 | have received for your benevolence a gift which is worthy of 09Draskh1    54:38 | acknowledged fear of you as a protective bastion against the enemies 09Draskh1    54:38 | imperial majesties, as if in a beautiful city, the nuptial veil 09Draskh1    54:40 | an orchard-guard’s hut; like a forest, they hewed down her 09Draskh1    54:44 | their fear of death. Like a twig that is shaken by 09Draskh1    54:48 | all the evil turmoils to a state of spiritual richness with 09Draskh1    54:53 | has become desolate, and like a widow she is left unattended 09Draskh1    54:55 | What account should I, Yovhannes, a most humble man, give of 09Draskh1    54:56 | in dark dungeons, cast into a muddy cell, and chained with 09Draskh1    54:57 | Although I am a tormented man, our Hope Christ 09Draskh1    54:65 | majesties, and reach God in a tranquil state 09Draskh1    54:69 | I am not asking for a domicile and quarters that my 09Draskh1    54:72 | wished very much to pay a visit to you. Yet, until 09Draskh1    54:73 | provide my own people with a restful living quarter and a 09Draskh1    54:73 | a restful living quarter and a peaceful life within your august 09Draskh1    54:74 | by turning them first into a people of the Lord, and 09Draskh1    54:75 | majesties; should I, who am a humble pastor of my flock 09Draskh1    54:80 | in wonderful tranquility and in a perfect state of peace. Exult 09Draskh1    54:81 | Him, who crowned you with a magnificently glittering diadem decked with 09Draskh1    55:2 | worthy of the lot of a martyr, thereupon immediately sent a 09Draskh1    55:2 | a martyr, thereupon immediately sent a certain T’eodoros Vaslikos in search 09Draskh1    55:2 | to make haste to pay a visit to him in order 09Draskh1    55:5 | than his gaherec’ princes with a proper throne, and unlike the 09Draskh1    55:5 | distinction befitting the progeny of a king. He treated Ashot almost 09Draskh1    55:6 | the title “the son of a martyr”, and “my beloved son 09Draskh1    55:6 | byssus with golden borders, and a girdle studded with gems for 09Draskh1    55:9 | Derjan, where I remained for a period of one month. Although 09Draskh1    55:12 | Also I saw there a small cavity dug in the 09Draskh1    55:12 | dug in the depths of a cavern, which was difficult of 09Draskh1    55:12 | to Christ, had set up a divine altar for their votive 09Draskh1    55:14 | place, I also, who am a wretch, with the help of 09Draskh1    55:15 | shepherds, and on which site a church had been built earlier 09Draskh1    55:19 | the Lord, and cut off a twig from the ash tree 09Draskh1    55:24 | the Lord, and raised not a small amount of uproar as 09Draskh1    55:25 | he had always spurned as a dishonorable and despicable person, he 09Draskh1    55:30 | almost as if demented by a certain depredation due to frantic 09Draskh1    55:33 | After a few days Yusuf urgently summoned 09Draskh1    55:33 | received him with honor, set a generous allowance, gave presents and 09Draskh1    55:38 | with his brother Gurgen many a time met the requirements of 09Draskh1    56:3 | under his sway, and like a newly arrived guest expected to 09Draskh1    56:6 | gird up his loins with a sword, whereafter he sent him 09Draskh1    56:10 | given the same honors in a befitting manner 09Draskh1    57:3 | And as there was a very small amount of provisions 09Draskh1    57:6 | the Lord, Who could pursue a thousand foes with one hand 09Draskh1    57:7 | their lines of battle with a huge outroar, and armed with 09Draskh1    57:9 | Vasak, who took refuge with a few of his men in 09Draskh1    57:13 | hands of their captors after a period of two years, and 09Draskh1    58:2 | between themselves and getting ready a great mob composed of numerous 09Draskh1    58:6 | poverty for themselves. Thus, for a period of two years they 09Draskh1    58:7 | my greetings, because I was a peace-maker, and whenever I 09Draskh1    58:8 | the ostikan Yusuf sent Ashot a royal crown and valuable ornaments 09Draskh1    58:13 | Gurgen, and receiving from him a great number of soldiers, arrived 09Draskh1    58:14 | died. He was survived by a son, his heir, still under 09Draskh1    59:2 | assistance of the king with a large army 09Draskh1    59:3 | en masse, he also gathered a large melange of daring but 09Draskh1    59:6 | wings, and setting out like a company of brigands, soon reached 09Draskh1    59:6 | fell upon the foe with a great uproar and struck them 09Draskh1    59:8 | to be able to find a way out of his problems 09Draskh1    59:16 | hostilities commenced between them as a result of the preconceived wickedness 09Draskh1    59:17 | of the king, asked for a solemn oath, so that he 09Draskh1    59:18 | same mind as well as a beloved brother 09Draskh1    59:19 | father-in-law Gurgen through a messenger, and that these were 09Draskh1    59:20 | had delayed the matter for a few days, he consented to 09Draskh1    59:21 | king might be possessed by a wild desire, and having broken 09Draskh1    60:1 | to Armenia as governor (ostikan) a certain Hagarite by the name 09Draskh1    60:2 | he sent to the caliph a large amount of gold and 09Draskh1    60:2 | the rest was offered as a gift 09Draskh1    60:4 | the king, as if against a foreign enemy 09Draskh1    60:6 | they induced them to make a treaty of peace between themselves 09Draskh1    60:6 | father-in-law exchanged many a solemn oath in writing, and 09Draskh1    60:8 | The tyrant, however, considering this a gift from the royal court 09Draskh1    60:13 | the aid of) Gurgen with a multitude, yet, they could not 09Draskh1    60:15 | coming to terms of peace, a messenger suddenly came to king 09Draskh1    60:18 | king might struggle to find a foothold there 09Draskh1    60:19 | camp in the glens of a hill on the western side 09Draskh1    60:20 | There, having found a mound which was surrounded by 09Draskh1    60:22 | us, just like that between a real father and his beloved 09Draskh1    60:29 | his two hundred soldiers raised a loud cry in unison and 09Draskh1    60:29 | made their horses run at a gallop 09Draskh1    60:30 | in the arena, and like a tempest having dispersed the enemy 09Draskh1    60:32 | Subsequently, struck with a vain fear of death, the 09Draskh1    60:33 | Overwhelmed by such a mindless apprehension, he blinded both 09Draskh1    60:33 | would not let him suffer a second time the distress caused 09Draskh1    60:34 | The accomplishment of such a wicked deed made everyone lose 09Draskh1    61:1 | A short time before this, the 09Draskh1    61:1 | ministers (naxarar) against him with a great force. Although Yusuf was 09Draskh1    61:3 | his (Yusuf’s) most venerable servants, a man by the name of 09Draskh1    61:3 | domain by force, and after a short time was designated by 09Draskh1    61:4 | latter, rather than Yusuf, made a treaty of peaceful coexistence with 09Draskh1    61:5 | king Gagik, marshalled his forces a few days later, and sent 09Draskh1    61:9 | Thereupon, he sent a certain Georg Hawnuni, a man 09Draskh1    61:9 | sent a certain Georg Hawnuni, a man of clerical rank, to 09Draskh1    61:9 | accepted the gifts and made a solemn oath to cease holding 09Draskh1    61:10 | domain of king Gagik enjoyed a life of peace and tranquillity 09Draskh1    62:1 | Ashot uncovered the layers of a rebellion organized by the Canaanite 09Draskh1    62:2 | of Vasak, and sent him a solemn oath bearing his seal 09Draskh1    62:13 | cried out to them in a loud voice and note: “If 09Draskh1    62:14 | taken into custody, and after a few days deprived all of 09Draskh1    63:2 | of the moral obligations of a common ancestry, and on behalf 09Draskh1    63:2 | and bushes, or turned into a refuge of brigands 09Draskh1    63:3 | He also made a solemn oath before me, so 09Draskh1    63:5 | all matters, they came to a complete understanding, which they confirmed 09Draskh1    63:8 | enter the service of Gurgen, a foreigner (anbnikn) who was the 09Draskh1    63:10 | would help him except for a very small number of unimportant 09Draskh1    63:15 | into the narrow defile of a fortress, where there was no 09Draskh1    64:5 | their homes, as if in a peaceful haven. In accordance with 09Draskh1    64:6 | the caliph, was confronted by a great confusion, for rebellious adversaries 09Draskh1    64:8 | his side, and they shed a great amount of one another’s 09Draskh1    64:9 | At this time, a certain adviser at the royal 09Draskh1    64:9 | Yusuf was an ingenious man, a mighty warrior, one who was 09Draskh1    64:10 | the man who could put a stop to the attacks and 09Draskh1    64:11 | Yusuf, and sent him with a detachment of forces to his 09Draskh1    64:12 | Yusuf, however, like a whirlwind hurried out impetuously and 09Draskh1    64:13 | by catastrophies, yet, there is a chance that the people of 09Draskh1    64:16 | the confines of Korduk’ for a few days, the ostikan Yusuf 09Draskh1    64:16 | in that place, but like a serpent that releases its venom 09Draskh1    64:24 | is in Persia, he sent a certain man by the name 09Draskh1    64:27 | A short time before the events 09Draskh1    65:1 | Naxjawan, where he remained for a number of days, as his 09Draskh1    65:2 | might be able, by making a covenant with death, to acquire 09Draskh1    65:3 | the lord of Siwnik’ in a sympathetic spirit of friendship 09Draskh1    65:4 | gifts. Seemingly benumbed and in a certain state of lethargy, he 09Draskh1    65:4 | state of lethargy, he made a treaty with hell ignoring the 09Draskh1    65:5 | But Nasr conceived a plot, and having allied himself 09Draskh1    65:16 | ravines of Mount Gegh, in a small glen, we ascended directly 09Draskh1    65:17 | We remained in Sewan for a period of four days with 09Draskh1    65:18 | out like hidden treasures from a depository, so that we could 09Draskh1    65:20 | ganjagin. Here I had built a church constructed with solid polished 09Draskh1    65:20 | had founded this place as a monastery for celibate priests 09Draskh1    65:21 | reached Biwrakan, I immediately sent a letter to Nasr, and reminded 09Draskh1    65:22 | should he assure me with a solemn oath (of my safety 09Draskh1    65:22 | continue sending him gifts as a tribute for my well-being 09Draskh1    65:23 | my letter, Nasr immediately sent a solemn oath in accordance with 09Draskh1    66:1 | But a certain judge of the unlawful 09Draskh1    66:1 | the unlawful religion of Muhammad, a man aged by wickedness, always 09Draskh1    66:4 | Send a large army to take possession 09Draskh1    66:5 | aroused him to bite like a wicked beast, and urged him 09Draskh1    66:5 | priests which is located in a cave to the northeast of 09Draskh1    66:8 | and death, and sent out a large number of forces to 09Draskh1    66:12 | escaped, they stopped to pitch a camp, and having gathered numerous 09Draskh1    66:16 | As a general rule, one soldier would 09Draskh1    66:16 | rule, one soldier would address a comrade in the following manner 09Draskh1    66:30 | manner, “Although people stricken with a fatal ailment suffer until death 09Draskh1    66:33 | had made frequent assaults for a period of seven days, they 09Draskh1    66:36 | their hidden plots, and in a barbaric manner enforced their wicked 09Draskh1    66:36 | plans on the people. In a mad frenzy of wickedness they 09Draskh1    66:39 | as one would chop down a tree with the sharp strokes 09Draskh1    66:39 | head (from his body) with a sword 09Draskh1    66:43 | afflicted with grief, nor as a result of his youth did 09Draskh1    66:49 | saved from the horrors of a fearful death. However, the latter 09Draskh1    66:50 | all presented to Christ as a perfect sacrifice in sweet savor 09Draskh1    66:50 | behind the sweet memory of a fruitful life, and was honored 09Draskh1    66:51 | taken to be immolated like a sheep and was illuminated with 09Draskh1    66:52 | Sagastan, and who had led a life of rigid austerity among 09Draskh1    66:52 | rigid austerity among us; in a miraculous manner he lived in 09Draskh1    66:53 | no one survived, except for a few who had departed from 09Draskh1    66:54 | clergy of the church (only) a deacon by the name of 09Draskh1    66:56 | of burden, made merry raising a hellish clamor and singing lewd 09Draskh1    66:58 | was offerd to Christ as a gift 09Draskh1    66:59 | rank, whereas the other was a layman, and both of them 09Draskh1    66:61 | But a few people, still young, about 09Draskh1    66:61 | were kept by the enemy. A short time later I ransomed 09Draskh1    66:63 | and questioned, they answered with a gleam of joy in their 09Draskh1    66:63 | not desire to live with a guilty conscience 09Draskh1    67:2 | one of his venerable servants, a man by the name of 09Draskh1    67:3 | had left behind him, gathered a great number of forces, and 09Draskh1    67:7 | Then, at a gallop he fell bravely and 09Draskh1    67:7 | headlong to the ground. Although a few of his men also 09Draskh1    67:10 | for many days, he led a large force, twice as great 09Draskh1    67:11 | noticed the advent of such a powerful force at his threshold 09Draskh1    67:11 | miss their mark even by a hair’s breadth 09Draskh1    67:14 | his spears as well as a small number of men, came 09Draskh1    67:18 | we had been left without a residence. No one made any 09Draskh1    67:19 | looked after my welfare with a genuine feeling of spiritual friendship 09Draskh1    67:22 | to drive him away with a multitude of armed men in 09Draskh1    67:27 | After a period of two days, when 09Draskh1    68:0 | A Separate Discourse Commemorating His (Yovhannes’s 09Draskh1    68:1 | Christ, I offer you as a gift this useful treatise. With 09Draskh1    68:1 | With this, which is like a reflecting mirror, I have invited 09Draskh1    68:5 | not at all consider reaching a goal that was beyond my 09Draskh1    68:5 | but through the echo of a full-voiced sound reverberating from 09Draskh1    68:6 | eyes on this treatise with a clear and open mind, each 09Draskh1    68:8 | children of Seth, who was a good gift, and be reckoned 09Draskh1    68:9 | cast into the sea, through a disciplined and restrained life you 09Draskh1    68:10 | set you on fire with a destructive blaze. But leaving Sodom 09Draskh1    68:10 | wonderful mountains of eternity where a holy torch is brightly ablaze 09Draskh1    68:11 | seductions of the deceiver, since a multitude of brigands waits in 09Draskh1    68:12 | by day or night with a diabolical confusion that deceived and 09Draskh1    68:13 | Shipwrecked because of a wicked and impure life, do 09Draskh1    68:14 | sons as they perish in a shipwreck? For this reason I 09Draskh1    68:15 | the mother who gave you a new birth into a living 09Draskh1    68:15 | you a new birth into a living hope by the newly 09Draskh1    68:16 | divine commands that tower like a mountain. But with the warmth 09Draskh1    68:16 | But with the warmth of a devout heart keep away from 09Draskh1    68:16 | to the soul, and with a clear mind cast aside the 09Draskh1    68:20 | thrown into the shade in a crevice of the rock and 10Tovma1    1:6 | they say that it was a long time later that Ninos 10Tovma1    1:10 | Zrvan to rule and made a sworn pact that whatever male 10Tovma1    1:10 | able to reign save only a woman named Dionysia—very opulent 10Tovma1    1:12 | As a better-known example I can 10Tovma1    1:14 | that he had come as a foreigner to enter the kingdom 10Tovma1    1:15 | on the model of Babylon, a river running through the middle 10Tovma1    1:16 | Adramelēk’ and Sanasar came with a strong force to the mountain 10Tovma1    1:20 | of years, which is not a convincing demonstration following one mode 10Tovma1    1:21 | zealous concerns were (merely) with a view to information from what 10Tovma1    1:21 | had said previously, and not a personal effort to invent writing 10Tovma1    1:21 | was invented later by Cadmus, a Phoenician 10Tovma1    1:22 | them, we must here make a little pause in our narrative 10Tovma1    1:23 | the east”—that is, in a country in the East about 10Tovma1    1:23 | it, rather than speaking of a western paradise or of it 10Tovma1    1:24 | enjoy, also endowing him with a term of life whose many 10Tovma1    1:24 | many years were as but a day. It had no need 10Tovma1    1:24 | It had no need of a foreign source of light whereby 10Tovma1    1:25 | the incorruptible; it was but a very little below the angels 10Tovma1    1:27 | He who sees all at a glance descended to seek out 10Tovma1    1:27 | his approach, calling out in a friendly voice: “Where are you 10Tovma1    1:29 | of the snake in finding a source of blame for the 10Tovma1    1:29 | is incurable by good; not a single honourable aspect does he 10Tovma1    1:31 | as inheritance for his sons a life of labour with death 10Tovma1    1:33 | God”; but (he was) not a worthy heir. She bore again 10Tovma1    1:34 | sevenfold vengeance,” is there really a sevenfold debt of sin? If 10Tovma1    1:34 | to anyone. For did by a series of seven evils this 10Tovma1    1:34 | or will it seem of a single kind? First of all 10Tovma1    1:34 | the saying: “If you offer ( a sacrifice) but do not divide 10Tovma1    1:38 | Fourthly, because (it was) a brother and not some stranger 10Tovma1    1:41 | with pointless effort he built a city, not considered among the 10Tovma1    1:43 | of God.” He was given a command not to mingle with 10Tovma1    1:44 | he taught them) to be a model of righteousness and patience 10Tovma1    1:45 | saints received as it were a paternal inheritance, like fathers to 10Tovma1    1:52 | But they had been given a command to keep away from 10Tovma1    1:56 | postponed the threatened punishment for a hundred years in his mercy 10Tovma1    1:58 | not wish the death of a sinner but that he may 10Tovma1    1:59 | the ten holy patriarchs not a single one seems ever to 10Tovma1    1:60 | from meat and wine in a life of spiritual prophecy. After 10Tovma1    1:60 | For if the course of a single thunderbolt and the crack 10Tovma1    1:62 | the just one complained after a hundred years, he was commanded 10Tovma1    1:62 | more days I shall bring a flood of waters over the 10Tovma1    1:65 | But some historians say that a daughter of Noah and the 10Tovma1    1:65 | by custom up until today a woman reigns over the land 10Tovma1    1:68 | ark—which I shall repeat a little later (when treating) of 10Tovma1    1:70 | breathing and living creature; for a whole year the earth remained 10Tovma1    1:73 | man and very learned philosopher; a follower of the holy apostles 10Tovma1    1:74 | the bones of Adam on a beast of burden and brought 10Tovma1    1:74 | his inheritance. When he reached a rocky overhang, he stopped the 10Tovma1    1:75 | first father’s bones were placed, a place of death and execution 10Tovma1    1:75 | and “Golgotha” in Hebrew, with a double name. Ham seized it 10Tovma1    1:75 | it was built up as a city of the same name 10Tovma1    1:75 | word which he commanded for a thousand years 10Tovma1    1:76 | A little later he says: “I 10Tovma1    2:2 | there are other fables, that a book was written by him 10Tovma1    2:3 | Others say that a certain Chronos was father of 10Tovma1    2:3 | deeds and placed it in a bronze vessel fastened with lead 10Tovma1    2:4 | Now Nebrot’, son of Kush a descendant of Ham, was much 10Tovma1    2:4 | and magician said he was a son of Ammon and Aramazd 10Tovma1    2:5 | of Alexander of Macedon; and a king of the Babylonians erected 10Tovma1    2:5 | the Babylonians erected to him a golden statue, a monument as 10Tovma1    2:5 | to him a golden statue, a monument as a record of 10Tovma1    2:5 | golden statue, a monument as a record of his valour 10Tovma1    2:6 | and was unfailingly preserved. After a long time the expense of 10Tovma1    2:6 | Daniel with joyful heart as a boast: “Why do you not 10Tovma1    2:10 | his own initiative declared himself a god and reigned in Babylon 10Tovma1    2:10 | under heaven. He commanded in a fearsome fashion every one everywhere 10Tovma1    2:11 | but he showed for worship ( a statue) made by mortal hands 10Tovma1    2:11 | sons, according to Solomon’s saying: “ A father, afflicted by untimely grief 10Tovma1    2:12 | pride he gave orders for a senseless cooperation on a vain 10Tovma1    2:12 | for a senseless cooperation on a vain task—to erect a 10Tovma1    2:12 | a vain task—to erect a tower from earth whose top 10Tovma1    2:14 | Not only are you not a god but you are a 10Tovma1    2:14 | a god but you are a dog, and a pack of 10Tovma1    2:14 | you are a dog, and a pack of dogs runs at 10Tovma1    3:2 | the confusion of languages caused a lack of common concern, or 10Tovma1    3:7 | desire at the report of a certain Haykazn 10Tovma1    3:9 | reigned over Assyria, and for a while also over Armenia. He 10Tovma1    3:10 | ancient and obscure, he composed a new fable about himself in 10Tovma1    3:10 | that Sem, Noah’s son, was a new Zruan, the first of 10Tovma1    3:11 | and note: “May I have a son Ormizd by name, who 10Tovma1    3:11 | he gave him power for a thousand years. After a thousand 10Tovma1    3:11 | for a thousand years. After a thousand years Ormizd was born 10Tovma1    3:11 | said to his brother: “For a thousand years I have been 10Tovma1    3:13 | and say that he was a foolish king, tell him that 10Tovma1    3:14 | that there happened to be a war between Ormizd and Haraman 10Tovma1    3:14 | the land seeking food. Seeing a bull, he stole it and 10Tovma1    3:17 | king of the Hephthalites, in a further elaboration affirms this: they 10Tovma1    3:17 | not say that fire is a creature of Ormizd, but the 10Tovma1    3:17 | fire from Ormizd and gave a part (of it) to mankind 10Tovma1    3:19 | son of someone else, Shurṙel, a camelherder. Persecuted in an unknown 10Tovma1    3:21 | me: “Many of us reached a part of that mountain and 10Tovma1    3:21 | regions of the East were a very extensive plain, stretching for 10Tovma1    3:21 | very extensive plain, stretching for a great distance, level, not enclosed 10Tovma1    3:21 | to take in, adorned with a strong light at night (giving 10Tovma1    3:21 | strong light at night (giving) a diverse appearance; and in the 10Tovma1    3:21 | daytime (it is covered with) a very dense cloud like soft 10Tovma1    3:21 | felt, in the form of a very bright white mist. Of 10Tovma1    3:23 | to Olympias; perhaps he reached a place outside the borders of 10Tovma1    3:25 | But there was a voice (warning) not to gather 10Tovma1    3:25 | group would be destroyed with a baneful disease. In frightened terror 10Tovma1    3:26 | from the same book. After a little he says: “Frequently my 10Tovma1    3:27 | days. Then we arrived at a spot by the sea. Placing 10Tovma1    3:27 | ship to the island, but a crab came out and dragged 10Tovma1    3:29 | the journey, we came across a female ass which had a 10Tovma1    3:29 | a female ass which had a foal. We immediately attached her 10Tovma1    3:31 | alert, yet invisible, guards like a very secure fence that would 10Tovma1    3:31 | care, that might stand outside a fortified royal garden. Such seemed 10Tovma1    3:34 | saying it is part of a god, how is it that 10Tovma1    3:34 | weak one is worshipped like a god? But how are they 10Tovma1    3:34 | that fire is part of a god? For sparks of it 10Tovma1    3:34 | each other—as happens with a wheel, when from the rapid 10Tovma1    3:35 | if water is thrown into a clean clear glass and placed 10Tovma1    3:38 | moved by something else. For a body is not self-moving 10Tovma1    3:38 | that the heavenly body has a regular, unceasing movement—that is 10Tovma1    3:39 | that it is moved by a single someone and not by 10Tovma1    3:40 | that he is bodiless, because a body has limited power and 10Tovma1    3:42 | to use the grease of a corpse for some exterior purpose 10Tovma1    4:3 | their names and times and a little of what happened in 10Tovma1    4:7 | In his time appeared Prometheus, a wise man 10Tovma1    4:17 | In his time there reigned a king of the Argives 10Tovma1    4:18 | is reported to have been a winged horse 10Tovma1    4:33 | general of the Medes; as a result he immolated himself on 10Tovma1    4:33 | result he immolated himself on a fire 10Tovma1    4:36 | kings found it appropriate, as a period of anarchy, to emigrate 10Tovma1    4:36 | anarchy, to emigrate and assemble a numerous army in the regions 10Tovma1    4:37 | on king Manasses tribute of a thousand silver talents. From then 10Tovma1    4:38 | called Nerełibd and who was a king 10Tovma1    4:39 | of his reign, Senek’erim gathered a numerous army against him, captured 10Tovma1    5:0 | king of the Medes, provoked a war against the great Tigran 10Tovma1    5:2 | Tigran to attack him with a massive army 10Tovma1    5:3 | to give him control of a fourth part of (the lands 10Tovma1    5:5 | Then, after receiving a message from Tigran, Sanasar and 10Tovma1    5:8 | speed and anxiety he assembled a host of numerous troops in 10Tovma1    5:9 | the battle had lasted for a long time. King Cyrus and 10Tovma1    5:10 | from foot to head without a chink, so that he was 10Tovma1    5:10 | his own person he wore a plated cuirass, backpiece, shin guards 10Tovma1    5:12 | his colleagues returned, receiving as a gift Tmorik’ with its fortress 10Tovma1    5:14 | For a wild barbarian race has attacked 10Tovma1    5:15 | is buried in Marbakatina in a hilly spot. There they gave 10Tovma1    5:15 | they gave battle for not a few days, about a month 10Tovma1    5:15 | not a few days, about a month, during which time the 10Tovma1    5:16 | to the least, and not a single one of them survived 10Tovma1    6:20 | them with Herculean valour, like a hero he warded off the 10Tovma1    6:20 | powerful generals of Alexander for a long time, amazing their armies 10Tovma1    6:22 | and Seleucus requested Asud as a gift from the king. For 10Tovma1    6:22 | given by Alexander—and had a liberal stipend arranged for him 10Tovma1    6:22 | until he himself should have a convenient opportunity to arrive 10Tovma1    6:31 | Medes, and Elamites. He gained a reputation for victory and even 10Tovma1    6:36 | the period of kingdoms to a close, extending down to Cleopatra 10Tovma1    6:42 | exterminate the Bagratid family at a single stroke 10Tovma1    6:46 | So it is a great pleasure for me, and 10Tovma1    6:46 | length on these great events; ( a pleasure) for you to hear 10Tovma1    6:49 | He also wrote a reply to the letter through 10Tovma1    6:49 | imprinting his desirable visage on a napkin in a glorious and 10Tovma1    6:49 | visage on a napkin in a glorious and ineffable manner 10Tovma1    6:50 | Here a new rejoicing suffuses this history 10Tovma1    6:51 | conversion to Christ he demonstrated a most upright and pious way 10Tovma1    6:55 | received in support Khuran Artsruni, a wise and valiant man, mighty 10Tovma1    6:55 | mighty with the bow and a well-armed cavalry man. When 10Tovma1    6:56 | with Abgar and Khuran provided a reason, yet Abgar and Khuran 10Tovma1    6:58 | the war had come to a conclusion, a tower that Abgar’s 10Tovma1    6:58 | had come to a conclusion, a tower that Abgar’s son was 10Tovma1    6:59 | him with purple (robes) and a baton in the stadium. Tiberius 10Tovma1    6:61 | and there he died at a good old age; in the 10Tovma1    7:4 | to Persia and they made a mutual treaty 10Tovma1    7:7 | Atrpatakan, and was residing with a certain general and magus called 10Tovma1    7:7 | that perhaps there might be a way to make some plan 10Tovma1    7:11 | Among the rocks he made a refuge in a most unsuspected 10Tovma1    7:11 | he made a refuge in a most unsuspected spot, a hiding 10Tovma1    7:11 | in a most unsuspected spot, a hiding place in a small 10Tovma1    7:11 | spot, a hiding place in a small cavern in a rocky 10Tovma1    7:11 | in a small cavern in a rocky hollow, opposite the southern 10Tovma1    7:11 | Van, near the place where a spring gushes out at the 10Tovma1    7:11 | out at the foot of a small hill. It was near 10Tovma1    7:13 | Artashēs in the guise of a wretch who goes around begging 10Tovma1    8:2 | it pleased him, he built a palace of rough rock as 10Tovma1    8:2 | palace of rough rock as a royal autumn residence, a splendid 10Tovma1    8:2 | as a royal autumn residence, a splendid building, beautifully walled, looking 10Tovma1    8:2 | summit covered in snow of a glorious white 10Tovma1    8:3 | like a splendid king with honourable white 10Tovma1    8:5 | he encircled the hill with a wall of roughly hewn rocks 10Tovma1    8:5 | rocks, fortifying the valley (into) a populous city. Above the gushing 10Tovma1    8:6 | the three hills he built a high tower with hollow centre 10Tovma1    8:6 | the southern side he discovered a lesser fountain, whose water he 10Tovma1    8:13 | land had been devastated by a Persian raid about the time 10Tovma1    8:14 | But a certain woman of the race 10Tovma1    8:14 | she had many treasures and a daughter called Anush 10Tovma1    8:15 | After receiving his land as a gift, Sahak let his son 10Tovma1    8:17 | over the land and ordered a temple built there to Heracles 10Tovma1    8:17 | keep the land prosperous, with a large population 10Tovma1    8:18 | declined, no one remained save a single young man named Hamam 10Tovma1    9:1 | of Armenia was thus enjoying a tranquil and undisturbed existence menaced 10Tovma1    10:1 | Divinity; and his baptism with a holy and pure confession in 10Tovma1    10:2 | son of Babgēn [II]. He was a mild man, intelligent, thoughtful, modest 10Tovma1    10:2 | to make himself recognised by a single person—that is, Christ 10Tovma1    10:4 | and the infamous. But being a studious reader of the Holy 10Tovma1    10:8 | at the command of Constantius. A lover of peace, he established 10Tovma1    10:12 | of Armenia was held by a man of baneful and evil 10Tovma1    10:15 | Having been blinded, he died a death worthy of his deeds 10Tovma1    10:17 | of this, he wrote via a certain Vahan of the Amatuni 10Tovma1    10:20 | not keep this place as a royal retreat for luxury and 10Tovma1    10:26 | begged Saint Nersēs to negotiate a reconciliation between Valens and Arshak 10Tovma1    10:28 | There was a great war between Shapuh and 10Tovma1    10:33 | they took her up to a high place in the castle 10Tovma1    10:36 | The blessed Zuit’ay, a priest from Artashat, followed them 10Tovma1    10:36 | his flock wander astray without a shepherd in deserts and dangerous 10Tovma1    10:38 | fought the good fight, like a brave shepherd he gave himself 10Tovma1    10:43 | for royal clothing”; Bishop Shmavon, a rock of Christ’s church; and 10Tovma1    10:46 | Armenia. He amassed around him a vast multitude of battalions, flags 10Tovma1    10:48 | hamstrung his armed horse, cast a rope around his neck, and 10Tovma1    10:48 | sparapet may crown you.” Heating a circular spit (-iron) until it 10Tovma1    11:1 | son of Arshak, and with a Greek army installed Pap as 10Tovma1    11:2 | of Saint Nersēs but travelled a perverse and contrary path, devoting 10Tovma1    11:2 | Nersēs, he surreptitiously gave him a mortal poison to drink 10Tovma1    11:3 | removed the saint’s body with a large retinue of Armenian soldiers 10Tovma1    11:5 | Aspurakēs, who do not deserve a good memory 10Tovma1    11:6 | the emperor Theodosius made king a certain Varazdat from the Arsacid 10Tovma1    11:6 | Varazdat from the Arsacid line, a valiant and warlike man who 10Tovma1    11:8 | the general Terentius. And before a reply had come back from 10Tovma1    11:11 | it better to submit to a Christian king than to submit 10Tovma1    11:12 | Sasanian race. Their submission was a cause of ruin to the 10Tovma1    11:13 | Arshak had done, he made a certain Khosrov from the Arsacid 10Tovma1    11:13 | over Armenia. And Shapuh wrote a letter to the nobles, nullifying 10Tovma1    11:13 | he said): “I have appointed a king for you from your 10Tovma1    11:15 | brought them to Khosrov. Following a great battle between Arshak and 10Tovma1    11:17 | Christians he pretended to be a Christian, and with the Persians 10Tovma1    11:18 | A few days later Khosrov rebelled 10Tovma1    11:22 | could adopt the life of a hermit. For a while Saint 10Tovma1    11:22 | life of a hermit. For a while Saint Sahak did not 10Tovma1    11:24 | the blessed Ałan waited for a suitable day. After reigning for 10Tovma1    11:25 | province of Karin and providing a garrison of troops to guard 10Tovma1    11:28 | Mokk’, while hunting called him a hero, so that puffed up 10Tovma1    11:34 | insults to Shapuh and making a firm peace with the Greeks 10Tovma1    11:35 | When Artashir became king, for a while the country had a 10Tovma1    11:35 | a while the country had a respite from the disorders of 10Tovma1    11:36 | haughtily and without shame, pursued a course of shameful lasciviousness, of 10Tovma1    11:38 | Artashir and Saint Sahak with a host of Armenian nobles. He 10Tovma1    11:38 | to why they had lodged a complaint against Artashir, but Saint 10Tovma1    11:39 | wishes. Approaching Vṙam with Surmak— a certain fanatical and vainglorious monk 10Tovma1    11:43 | years he died, having lived a life outside the law 10Tovma1    11:44 | hand, the general Anatolius appointed a certain Havuk Kukṙchats’i as bishop 10Tovma1    11:45 | him again. Receiving from him a monk’s habit, he went to 10Tovma1    11:46 | nobles of Armenia came in a body to him. Falling at 10Tovma1    11:49 | Mashtots’ also died. Accompanied by a light in the form of 10Tovma1    11:49 | light in the form of a cross, a crowd of nobles 10Tovma1    11:49 | the form of a cross, a crowd of nobles led by 10Tovma1    11:50 | the house of Saint Gregory, a certain Levond, a pupil of 10Tovma1    11:50 | Saint Gregory, a certain Levond, a pupil of Saint Mashtots’, became 10Tovma1    11:51 | of Jermadzor. He lived in a fortress which is now called 10Tovma1    11:54 | the History of Greater Armenia, a wonderful composition which begins with 10Tovma1    11:55 | He lived a full [120] years (and died) at 10Tovma1    11:55 | full [120] years (and died) at a ripe old age, as has 10Tovma2    1:1 | with him as marzpan Vndoy, a chief magus of the Persians 10Tovma2    1:3 | marzpan, they built in Dvin a temple to Ormizd and lit 10Tovma2    1:4 | of Armenia, he hastily sent a letter of complaint to Tachat 10Tovma2    1:6 | the valiant Vardan, roaring like a lion or lion cub; drawing 10Tovma2    1:7 | pyraeum they hung Shiroy on a gibbet. The garrison they drowned 10Tovma2    1:9 | Artsruni, for him to build a mansion (fit) for kings—acts 10Tovma2    1:9 | over Armenia as he was a spirited and powerful man, shrewd 10Tovma2    1:14 | of the valiant Persians like a fire through reeds 10Tovma2    1:15 | Persian force opposing Vardan. Rapidly a large number of Persian soldiers 10Tovma2    2:1 | king of kings, there was a certain Bartsuma of the sect 10Tovma2    2:6 | but merely sent messages with a warning threat 10Tovma2    2:10 | emperor Marcian received them in a friendly and peaceful fashion and 10Tovma2    2:12 | of the Holy Scriptures with a view to choosing an authoritative 10Tovma2    2:14 | summon anyone from Armenia with a view to the unity of 10Tovma2    2:15 | of the Mamikonean, who was a disciple of Saint Sahak, and 10Tovma2    2:20 | gathered around him and made a covenant and divine pact, through 10Tovma2    2:21 | Persian general attacked Armenia with a massive army, to give battle 10Tovma2    2:22 | was warned that Hazaravukht with a large number of elite Persian 10Tovma2    2:24 | Forming a solid mass like a hill 10Tovma2    2:24 | Forming a solid mass like a hill of bronze, as one 10Tovma2    2:24 | The latter thought it all a joke 10Tovma2    2:25 | dust is whirled around by a tempest or fire runs through 10Tovma2    3:2 | A certain Vahram Mehrevandak, who was 10Tovma2    3:2 | certain Vahram Mehrevandak, who was a prince of the eastern regions 10Tovma2    3:2 | prince of the eastern regions, a man of great strength, valiantly 10Tovma2    3:3 | splendid gifts and presents and a letter written at Khosrov’s dictation 10Tovma2    3:4 | my kingdom, I shall be a subject son to you and 10Tovma2    3:4 | Tiflis. And we shall keep a peace treaty between us and 10Tovma2    3:5 | Philipikos; he had him take a letter of welcome, and received 10Tovma2    3:5 | the stratelat from Syria, Musheł a valiant warrior and man of 10Tovma2    3:9 | for you to count, and a multitude of troops—as many 10Tovma2    3:10 | Then he wrote a second letter, saying: “I wrote 10Tovma2    3:11 | Mushegh wrote a reply in the following terms 10Tovma2    3:11 | I see that you are a boastful man since you rely 10Tovma2    3:13 | the sun was still rising, a fierce battle was joined, line 10Tovma2    3:13 | joined, line facing line (in) a violent melee and terrible clash 10Tovma2    3:15 | as Hats’iwn and Maku. And a great treaty of friendship was 10Tovma2    3:16 | and proclaimed as their king a certain man named Phocas. Marching 10Tovma2    3:18 | request peace from him in a most solicitous manner, saying: “I 10Tovma2    3:19 | permission; he offers us as a present our own treasures, unaware 10Tovma2    3:23 | They ordered a count to be made of 10Tovma2    3:25 | the city and its environs, a command was issued from the 10Tovma2    3:25 | carried out immediately; they appointed a certain Modestos as archpriest over 10Tovma2    3:28 | Then boarding a ship, he went to the 10Tovma2    3:33 | words and seek from him a treaty and friendship. And from 10Tovma2    3:34 | peace for the land and a treaty with me.” They accepted 10Tovma2    3:35 | Constantinople. Then there took place a violent naval battle at sea 10Tovma2    3:36 | their ships. On seeing such a loss, they had no more 10Tovma2    3:41 | you will see me in a way you will not wish 10Tovma2    3:43 | throne Heraclius’s son who was a young child, while Heraclius himself 10Tovma2    3:47 | cast its lightning upon you; a rumbling echo and shaking will 10Tovma2    3:50 | Heraclius. He opposed them with a mighty force. And there was 10Tovma2    3:51 | them all, but they raised a piteous cry for mercy to 10Tovma2    3:53 | clothing, very many animals, and a multitude of prisoners as numberless 10Tovma2    3:58 | terrified, Khosrov sought for himself a place of refuge. He cried 10Tovma2    3:58 | refuge. He cried out, saying: “ A horse, a horse.” But on 10Tovma2    3:58 | cried out, saying: “A horse, a horse.” But on entering the 10Tovma2    3:59 | groves and stayed hidden under a thick flower bush—a myrtle 10Tovma2    3:59 | under a thick flower bush— a myrtle 10Tovma2    3:60 | King Kavat ordered a search to be made. Entering 10Tovma2    3:61 | fault with him and decreed a sentence of death on him 10Tovma2    3:64 | own son Artashir, who was a very young boy. Then Heraclius 10Tovma2    3:64 | died and his son is a young boy. So now the 10Tovma2    3:64 | to Asorestan; let us make a sworn pact between the two 10Tovma2    3:68 | And he requested from him a small force of distinguished men 10Tovma2    3:74 | in royal garments, riding on a royal horse, and circulating among 10Tovma2    3:76 | died. After her they introduced a certain Khosroy, a young boy 10Tovma2    3:76 | they introduced a certain Khosroy, a young boy, and made him 10Tovma2    3:76 | of them made king Azarmik, a daughter of Khosrov; while the 10Tovma2    3:76 | army of Khoṙeam made king a certain Ormizd in the city 10Tovma2    3:77 | end, as we shall describe a little later 10Tovma2    4:5 | them, called Abdla, died leaving a son of tender age called 10Tovma2    4:5 | he reached puberty. On attaining a sufficient age he dwelt with 10Tovma2    4:5 | sufficient age he dwelt with a certain wealthy man from among 10Tovma2    4:6 | wife, seeing that Mahmet was a faithful man and very sagacious 10Tovma2    4:7 | So, he became a merchant by trade and skilled 10Tovma2    4:7 | in the regions of Egypt a monk called Sargis Bhira, who 10Tovma2    4:7 | Sargis Bhira, who had been a disciple of the mania of 10Tovma2    4:8 | predict that you will become a great general and the leader 10Tovma2    4:9 | was departing from him that a strange voice, an influence fearsome 10Tovma2    4:9 | rest. And as she dozed, a strange spirit cried out from 10Tovma2    4:9 | into stone: “You will bear a son who (will) conquer the 10Tovma2    4:9 | conquer the world.” And, indeed, a daughter of the tribe of 10Tovma2    4:10 | ordered me to go as a messenger to my nation, to 10Tovma2    4:11 | when he said he was a messenger of God 10Tovma2    4:12 | with threats.” Now Ali was a valiant man. He said to 10Tovma2    4:13 | same words publicly. There was a great outcry among them and 10Tovma2    4:13 | outcry among them and such a dispute that many of them 10Tovma2    4:14 | They joined him and made a pact, gave him a wife 10Tovma2    4:14 | made a pact, gave him a wife from their nation, and 10Tovma2    4:14 | say that it was by a command of God that this 10Tovma2    4:15 | joined with the Ismaelites, forming a large army. Attacking P’aṙan, they 10Tovma2    4:15 | army. Attacking P’aṙan, they inflicted a great defeat on their opponents 10Tovma2    4:17 | He sent a message to Theodore, the brother 10Tovma2    4:17 | was in their possession for a long time. And if God 10Tovma2    4:20 | their camp, (the Muslims) seized a great amount of booty and 10Tovma2    4:22 | an angel and not from a man, he was very vexed 10Tovma2    4:23 | regions of Persia who had a pupil called Sałman. At the 10Tovma2    4:24 | of the Scriptures, though not a perfect one. When Mahmet saw 10Tovma2    4:24 | and ordered him to write a book of laws for his 10Tovma2    4:25 | for him and set down a composite book, some of it 10Tovma2    4:25 | But Mahmet himself, moved by a raving spirit, had him write 10Tovma2    4:26 | of Isaiah: “riding one on a donkey, and the other on 10Tovma2    4:26 | donkey, and the other on a camel.” All this he applied 10Tovma2    4:31 | never leave you forever. Like a potter’s furnace will you burn 10Tovma2    4:33 | out the Greeks, and gathering a great army attacked the enfeebled 10Tovma2    4:35 | Mawi, [20] years and [3] months and a few days. There was a 10Tovma2    4:35 | a few days. There was a fierce war between Ali, son 10Tovma2    4:35 | Mruan, [21] years. And there was a great opposition and war (between 10Tovma2    4:36 | planned even more evil. By a deceitful trick he trapped the 10Tovma2    4:37 | of them all. He wrote a letter on the faith to 10Tovma2    4:37 | of the Greeks; and receiving a response from him expunged many 10Tovma2    4:39 | Yezit, for [6] years. He was a pestilential man. Moved by a 10Tovma2    4:39 | a pestilential man. Moved by a rabid spirit he inflicted many 10Tovma2    4:41 | he himself was strangled by a demon and perished 10Tovma2    4:56 | alone over everyone and built a city and royal palace for 10Tovma2    4:58 | he inflicted on Armenia over a long period of time; and 10Tovma2    5:0 | reckoning of the Armenian calendar; a certain T’ok’l called Jap’r reigned 10Tovma2    5:1 | A certain man, Jap’r, insolent and 10Tovma2    5:1 | and torment those who wished a peaceful life; for confusion and 10Tovma2    5:2 | with cancerous mien, raging like a wild beast, he began to 10Tovma2    5:3 | Ashot of the Artsruni house, a most renowned man and very 10Tovma2    5:6 | the borders of Armenia with a numerous army, coming close to 10Tovma2    5:11 | and the royal taxes to a certain Muse, son of a 10Tovma2    5:11 | a certain Muse, son of a Hagarite Zōrahay, who then ruled 10Tovma2    6:1 | At that time there was a great disturbance between Bagarat and 10Tovma2    6:3 | own troops, he hastily sent a begging letter to the valiant 10Tovma2    6:10 | Akēats’i, Vardan Gabayełen, Smbat Marats’ean, a lesser noble Sahak, the patrik 10Tovma2    6:12 | our valiant Ashot arrived. In a dauntless assault they fell on 10Tovma2    6:13 | troops being struck. Roaring like a lion, he rushed on the 10Tovma2    6:14 | who could resist them, not a single person. Those who survived 10Tovma2    6:18 | in silence and forgetfulness such a great victory won by the 10Tovma2    6:19 | met coming from the court a certain vizier (in charge) of 10Tovma2    6:21 | Ali also made a raid in the direction of 10Tovma2    6:22 | The prince sent him a message as follows: “You have 10Tovma2    6:22 | taxes. Do you also have a command from court to capture 10Tovma2    6:23 | message, deeming it unworthy of a response, and in the same 10Tovma2    6:25 | the battle. Bravely attacking with a valiant shout, he rushed on 10Tovma2    6:26 | Vahan Havnuni fought bravely, gaining a notable victory and putting the 10Tovma2    6:26 | killed. Ali himself, escaping with a few men, fled in the 10Tovma2    6:26 | of the Armenian troops (only) a few insignificant men were killed 10Tovma2    6:28 | But because of these events a violent war was fomented by 10Tovma2    6:28 | had hidden much treasure in a barrel in the ground below 10Tovma2    6:32 | that day there will be a voice from the gate of 10Tovma2    6:33 | royal gate, he roared like a lion or like a disturbed 10Tovma2    6:33 | like a lion or like a disturbed bear. He flamed like 10Tovma2    6:33 | disturbed bear. He flamed like a fiery furnace, and foamed like 10Tovma2    6:33 | with purple blood. He uttered a great cry like infernal rumbling 10Tovma2    6:34 | boiled around his heart in a fiery glow. Carried away by 10Tovma2    6:34 | great anxiety as he sought a solution to the events that 10Tovma2    6:36 | they began to act in a filthy fashion until they brought 10Tovma2    6:36 | dwellings. 36 For it is written: “ A just king sets his country 10Tovma2    6:36 | country aright; the ruin of a country is an impious king 10Tovma2    6:37 | Ezekiel says: “Your father was a Canaanite and your mother a 10Tovma2    6:37 | a Canaanite and your mother a Hittite 10Tovma2    6:38 | mindful of the oversight of a different land he repeated the 10Tovma2    6:43 | gathering an army and forming a force of elite cavalry, with 10Tovma2    6:43 | generals, he entrusted it to a certain Yovsep’, son of Apusēt’ 10Tovma2    6:46 | and pile up for himself a vast amount of booty 10Tovma2    6:48 | to the general. He wrote a letter in these terms 10Tovma2    6:51 | prince of Tarōn, who was a woman wise in words and 10Tovma2    6:51 | Yovsep’, requesting him to establish a treaty and peace with her 10Tovma2    6:52 | the land of Vaspurakan with a minimum of damage, taking the 10Tovma2    6:54 | the divinely inspired Scriptures with a host of ministers of the 10Tovma2    7:1 | the Muslims was encamped, like a hibernating bear who has gone 10Tovma2    7:4 | of Khoyt’ gathered together as a crowd to consider their strategems 10Tovma2    7:6 | marzpan fled for refuge to a very tall church which had 10Tovma2    7:6 | last and was buried like a donkey 10Tovma2    7:9 | men were to shout from a very high place he would 10Tovma2    7:9 | anywhere; you would think it a mere echo from the rocks 10Tovma2    7:9 | and their mutual speech is a patchwork of borrowed words 10Tovma2    7:11 | wool. For footwear they use a form of boot made from 10Tovma3    1:4 | pieces all the limbs of a body until the form of 10Tovma3    1:11 | caliph: “Gather an army, assemble a force, march into the land 10Tovma3    1:12 | to strike our feet against a rock. The day of destruction 10Tovma3    1:16 | lamentation, and mourning not for a single clan or a single 10Tovma3    1:16 | for a single clan or a single area but for all 10Tovma3    1:25 | general he appointed over them a man called Bugha, a Turk 10Tovma3    1:25 | them a man called Bugha, a Turk by race, and he 10Tovma3    1:27 | and haughty, he roared like a dragon, striking terror into those 10Tovma3    1:30 | undone. For I shall work a deed in your days, a 10Tovma3    1:30 | a deed in your days, a deed you would not believe 10Tovma3    2:3 | Then he entrusted a part of his army to 10Tovma3    2:3 | part of his army to a general named Zhirak and sent 10Tovma3    2:4 | us by night and cause a great disaster 10Tovma3    2:6 | and farms they made it a desert devoid of men and 10Tovma3    2:9 | brother aided by brother like a secure and strong city,” or 10Tovma3    2:9 | or according to Isaiah: “At a single voice thousands will perish 10Tovma3    2:10 | A priest called Shapuh and one 10Tovma3    2:10 | the force. Supported also by a shepherd, they hurled stones with 10Tovma3    2:10 | numerous. Their memory will be a source of courage and bravery 10Tovma3    2:11 | nobility of the Vahevuni family, a certain Apusahak, brother of Sahak 10Tovma3    2:14 | arrows of his quiver with a sponge, he directed his destructive 10Tovma3    2:15 | for I shall give you a mouth and wisdom to which 10Tovma3    2:18 | spirit”; and: “Do not let a seven-branch candlestick hide the 10Tovma3    2:18 | shining of its light under a bushel, but let it be 10Tovma3    2:23 | One of them took a sword, struck the blessed one 10Tovma3    2:25 | had heard of it from a certain Persian from the valley 10Tovma3    2:29 | might be able to find a way out of the danger 10Tovma3    2:33 | Then, after a few days, (Bugha) armed his 10Tovma3    2:37 | it soaks it up like a sponge. Putting this on themselves 10Tovma3    2:39 | abdomen in the form of a shield, indicating the artistry of 10Tovma3    2:40 | They themselves wear a cuirass and on their heads 10Tovma3    2:40 | cuirass and on their heads a helmet; on their hands they 10Tovma3    2:40 | their shoes like slippers, put a shield on their backs, gird 10Tovma3    2:40 | their backs, gird themselves with a sword, take a lance in 10Tovma3    2:40 | themselves with a sword, take a lance in their hand, and 10Tovma3    2:42 | order. This Isaiah described in a phrase: “The Elamites took up 10Tovma3    2:44 | and ostentatious fashion, striding like a lion cub, quite unconcerned and 10Tovma3    2:48 | Vahram, they had him take a letter to the general, full 10Tovma3    2:49 | tortures rebels and opponents in a manner worthy of their villainy 10Tovma3    2:49 | the country discord and from a peaceful land turmoil, as is 10Tovma3    2:52 | of the Artsruni family, and a great number of nobles and 10Tovma3    2:52 | does not quickly come to a head, perhaps under cover of 10Tovma3    2:52 | come upon you and inflict a terrible disaster on you and 10Tovma3    2:53 | For he is a valiant man and a warrior 10Tovma3    2:53 | is a valiant man and a warrior, and the troops with 10Tovma3    2:54 | plans, and inflict on you a shameful and humiliating defeat—as 10Tovma3    2:54 | to resist them, not even a hundred men against ten Armenian 10Tovma3    2:55 | also in the form of a letter. Confirming it with an 10Tovma3    2:58 | their charge of your being a rebel against the caliph be 10Tovma3    2:60 | with you falsely, give now a response before my face and 10Tovma3    2:61 | cared for you tenderly like a father, or as a hen 10Tovma3    2:61 | like a father, or as a hen gathering her chicks under 10Tovma3    2:61 | in watchful security as in a fortified city, living without worries 10Tovma3    2:62 | as compensation for that: ’Set a sinner over them; let Satan 10Tovma3    2:64 | you not reflect on even a single one of the benefits 10Tovma3    2:71 | God he prayed; he ate a little bread and wine, gave 10Tovma3    2:81 | He shall send to them a man who will save them 10Tovma3    3:1 | in bonds, he (Bugha) formed a detachment of soldiers and elite 10Tovma3    3:3 | tribunal and bring them to a judicial interrogation and examination of 10Tovma3    4:5 | But reaching a noble decision, they preferred a 10Tovma3    4:5 | a noble decision, they preferred a valiant death to life with 10Tovma3    4:6 | He spoke with them in a severe fashion, but of that 10Tovma3    4:8 | Now a thrice-blessed young man, himself 10Tovma3    4:8 | thrice-blessed young man, himself a Muslim and a Persian by 10Tovma3    4:8 | man, himself a Muslim and a Persian by race who pursued 10Tovma3    4:9 | himself to the sword as a living sacrifice to the Son 10Tovma3    4:10 | But he shouted: “I am a Christian.” But (Vahram) persisted and 10Tovma3    4:10 | Do not die, you are a Muslim.” But he even more 10Tovma3    4:10 | out, weeping tears: “I am a Christian, and I die for 10Tovma3    4:13 | his hands, saying: “I am a Christian, I am a Christian 10Tovma3    4:13 | am a Christian, I am a Christian,” until the executioners, enraged 10Tovma3    4:14 | Then behold a bright light descended from heaven 10Tovma3    4:16 | separates me from his people.” A little later he says: “As 10Tovma3    4:16 | my house shall be called a house of prayer for all 10Tovma3    4:19 | for his saying: “I am a Christian” according to the Scripture 10Tovma3    4:19 | Christian” according to the Scripture: “ A new name shall be given 10Tovma3    4:20 | This was written as a memorial for the saint. After 10Tovma3    4:21 | province of Orsirank’ accompanied by a host of nobles and magnates 10Tovma3    4:21 | of Blood. For there is a great lake there near the 10Tovma3    4:22 | of the sea. As in a great and impregnable fortress they 10Tovma3    4:25 | liberty and arranged for her a daily allowance worthy of the 10Tovma3    4:29 | sent as messenger to them a certain Abdlay who was known 10Tovma3    4:30 | you likewise come with only a few men, more or less 10Tovma3    4:31 | generals but was still at a distance of about two miles 10Tovma3    4:32 | hour of the day, on a Sunday, behold, detachments of cavalry 10Tovma3    4:33 | the mountain was filled with a multitude of soldiers; and the 10Tovma3    4:35 | as the whole host raised a shout, as if the mountain 10Tovma3    4:39 | and realised that it was a messenger of grievous news; “for 10Tovma3    4:39 | grievous news; “for he has a naked sword in his hand 10Tovma3    4:41 | gathered in one spot, forming a solid compact mass, a single 10Tovma3    4:41 | forming a solid compact mass, a single man as it were 10Tovma3    4:41 | man as it were, or a high rock. They stood firm 10Tovma3    4:42 | Like a wall of adamant, so they 10Tovma3    4:42 | fugitives, ready to die like a brave shepherd for his sheep 10Tovma3    4:43 | to beg for peace until a response from the general-in 10Tovma3    4:44 | but that they had given a general order to go out 10Tovma3    4:44 | prepare, to form ranks and a line against the Muslims. He 10Tovma3    4:58 | With a resolute assault they joined battle 10Tovma3    4:61 | the battle, for it was a spiritual battle and not a 10Tovma3    4:61 | a spiritual battle and not a physical one; they were fighting 10Tovma3    4:63 | A certain Ashkhē who had come 10Tovma3    4:64 | lines faced each other, suddenly a man in the likeness of 10Tovma3    4:64 | ranks. He wore around himself a garment of blazing light, shining 10Tovma3    4:64 | his right hand he had a sword and in his left 10Tovma3    4:64 | sword and in his left a censer full of incense 10Tovma3    4:65 | He was mounted on a white horse and fanned the 10Tovma3    4:65 | towards the enemy. There was a sweet smell as he wafted 10Tovma3    4:65 | when it lessened they had a little respite from the enemy 10Tovma3    5:2 | killed clearly and openly: that a mere nine hundred men had 10Tovma3    5:4 | A command was sent throughout the 10Tovma3    5:4 | from his own dwelling to a foreign land to live in 10Tovma3    5:6 | Het’m of the royal army, a Turk by race, accompanied by 10Tovma3    5:6 | cavalry fully armed and in a greater state of readiness than 10Tovma3    5:6 | than the former (army), with a letter written and sealed but 10Tovma3    5:9 | he charge him with being a rebel. Rather he had the 10Tovma3    5:9 | standards and flags unfurled, placed a princely crown on his head 10Tovma3    5:9 | his person, girded him with a sword, and set him on 10Tovma3    5:9 | sword, and set him on a finely adorned mule 10Tovma3    5:10 | instruments echoing around them, with a host of armed soldiers on 10Tovma3    5:10 | push aside the pressing throng, a herald cried out:“The principality 10Tovma3    5:11 | days had passed they had a letter taken to Gurgēn; it 10Tovma3    5:16 | Lord Grigor Artsruni who rendered a fine confession in Christ before 10Tovma3    5:19 | saying might be fulfilled: “Raise a sword against the shepherd and 10Tovma3    5:20 | there remained no one in a position to resist him. From 10Tovma3    5:23 | The land was first like a delightful garden, but later (became 10Tovma3    5:23 | delightful garden, but later (became) a plain of destruction. And as 10Tovma3    6:3 | short. I shall summarize in a few words the history of 10Tovma3    6:4 | later, (and trust me) as a truthful and honest historian 10Tovma3    6:5 | suddenly the trumpets sounded with a strident blast to inform the 10Tovma3    6:6 | All the magnates with a mass of common people rushed 10Tovma3    6:7 | with great effort and over a long time, incessantly by day 10Tovma3    6:8 | draw them (the Armenians) into a deceitful trap through the astute 10Tovma3    6:10 | sat in the tribunal on a high dais in the midst 10Tovma3    6:11 | captives like the venom of a snake, indiscriminately scattering and spreading 10Tovma3    6:21 | written that the witness of a single person is not veracious 10Tovma3    6:22 | Mahumat’; for there is hardly a single person who bears witness 10Tovma3    6:23 | one’s time, as if from a single mouth, apart from the 10Tovma3    6:28 | became insolent, and roaring like a bloodthirsty wild beast, ordered them 10Tovma3    6:31 | came forth the smoke of a fiery furnace,” as it is 10Tovma3    6:35 | Satan had formed him into a tool useful for every art 10Tovma3    6:35 | art of deceitful knowledge, as a convenient snare with poisonous arrows 10Tovma3    6:40 | arms he was wounded; without a storm he was shipwrecked; in 10Tovma3    6:41 | than to enjoy (life) for a while in sin 10Tovma3    6:46 | but rebounded upon himself like a missile from a wall as 10Tovma3    6:46 | himself like a missile from a wall as strong as adamant 10Tovma3    6:47 | they too armed themselves for a lasting confrontation. With ceaseless psalm 10Tovma3    6:48 | the word of Christ as a sword, which is sharper than 10Tovma3    6:48 | their heart unsullied faith as a shield. They raised their hands 10Tovma3    6:48 | their hands to heaven like a strong bow; the force of 10Tovma3    6:48 | arrow at the target from a wide-arced bow; decapitating Satan 10Tovma3    6:48 | Satan they struck him as a corpse to the ground 10Tovma3    6:56 | the saying of the prophet: “ A young child shall plunge his 10Tovma3    6:56 | shall plunge his hands into a hole of serpents, yet they 10Tovma3    6:59 | the ascetic priest, and with a good confession, in the month 10Tovma3    6:59 | fifth day of the month, a Friday, fell asleep in Christ 10Tovma3    6:60 | Gregory had fallen asleep with a good confession, they offered thanks 10Tovma3    7:2 | It did indeed appear as a bitter root, and many were 10Tovma3    7:3 | come, let us set forth a brief refutation of them from 10Tovma3    7:4 | At that time a priest Novatian in Rome despatched 10Tovma3    7:7 | purify our lips by uttering a pure confession and keep our 10Tovma3    7:7 | two do not act with a single piety, then there is 10Tovma3    7:8 | For if the sail of a ship is not deployed on 10Tovma3    7:8 | not deployed on both sides, a straight course cannot be steered 10Tovma3    7:9 | If a bird does not fly with 10Tovma3    7:11 | deny with the lips, since: “ A good tree cannot produce bad 10Tovma3    7:11 | produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit 10Tovma3    7:14 | blessed Isaiah says: “I am a man and I have impure 10Tovma3    7:14 | impure lips; I dwell amidst a people with impure lips 10Tovma3    7:15 | accused himself so much for a small matter, how much more 10Tovma3    7:16 | As Paul, lamenting, says as a threat: “Think what severe punishment 10Tovma3    7:22 | the heart, since thought is a conception of the mind and 10Tovma3    7:25 | concerning me, let us keep a good confession (of faith) and 10Tovma3    8:0 | the city of Dvin; and a memorial of the martyrs 10Tovma3    8:1 | Just as a little above we described the 10Tovma3    8:6 | from the caliph’s presence with a numerous and mighty army and 10Tovma3    8:6 | attacking them, he devoured like a dragon those he was able 10Tovma3    8:7 | have drawn the example of a dragon rising from the sea 10Tovma3    8:14 | And: “What will it profit a man if he gain the 10Tovma3    8:14 | soul?” Or: “What ransom will a man give for his soul 10Tovma3    8:15 | the tyrant, despising him as a worthless child or crazy old 10Tovma3    8:16 | his mind became foolish like a drunkard insensible from drink. He 10Tovma3    8:17 | the place of execution, like a young groom to the wedding 10Tovma3    8:17 | wedding and as happy as a husband joining the bride. They 10Tovma3    8:18 | Instead of a robe decorated with flowers and 10Tovma3    8:19 | in the deep forest with a hatchet, mercilessly dismembering (them) limb 10Tovma3    8:23 | executioner was beating him like a senseless thing—and not the 10Tovma3    9:1 | When the winter drew to a close and the season of 10Tovma3    9:2 | them as he neighed like a spirited charger 10Tovma3    9:3 | Now he writhed like a snake, now he roared like 10Tovma3    9:3 | snake, now he roared like a lion; he grunted like a 10Tovma3    9:3 | a lion; he grunted like a wild pig, foaming, and grinding 10Tovma3    9:7 | Then gathering a vast army much greater than 10Tovma3    9:9 | killed (in the crossing) except a single person called Ashkhēt’, a 10Tovma3    9:9 | a single person called Ashkhēt’, a distinguished man, renowned in the 10Tovma3    9:9 | army, who had under him a host of commanders as numerous 10Tovma3    9:10 | someone hiding in ambush drew a longbow and struck him with 10Tovma3    9:10 | held the bridle slackened. Then a second person hurled a spear 10Tovma3    9:10 | Then a second person hurled a spear at the same eye 10Tovma3    9:10 | those who found his corpse a few days later Bugha gave 10Tovma3    9:11 | he surrounded the city with a wall of fire, the flames 10Tovma3    9:12 | dressed in sable and bearing a rod in his hand. Becoming 10Tovma3    9:12 | wherever he wished. He sent a message to the general Zhirak’ 10Tovma3    9:13 | been captured, since she was a beautiful woman she hastened to 10Tovma3    9:14 | his head. His wife raised a shriek, saying: “My lamentation will 10Tovma3    10:3 | seventy-two. They live without a leader, and each has his 10Tovma3    10:4 | these barbarians Saint Grigoris received a martyr’s death in the plain 10Tovma3    10:6 | in disgrace, having given them a severe beating. Then they descended 10Tovma3    10:9 | After the interval of a day they again joined battle 10Tovma3    10:9 | royal army was defeated. After a few days had passed, once 10Tovma3    10:9 | So they were placed in a great dilemma: they were unwilling 10Tovma3    10:9 | for (Bugha) considered the action a severe disgrace, but neither were 10Tovma3    10:11 | extensive territory of the Ałuank’ a certain Apumusē, who was noted 10Tovma3    10:11 | Apumusē, who was noted as a reader and was known as 10Tovma3    10:11 | was known as “son of a priest 10Tovma3    10:13 | killed, it will be considered a glorious thing for himself and 10Tovma3    10:13 | clan, and he will receive a martyr’s crown from Christ. For 10Tovma3    10:13 | For it will not be a death of a common sort 10Tovma3    10:13 | not be a death of a common sort, but one on 10Tovma3    10:16 | of the Ałuank’. He sent a summons, calling him to subjection 10Tovma3    10:17 | land of the Ałuank’ including a host of common peasants and 10Tovma3    10:17 | host of common peasants and a few legions of soldiers from 10Tovma3    10:19 | But the latter sent back a response in this fashion: “It 10Tovma3    10:19 | for governors to come to a land with royal solicitude to 10Tovma3    10:19 | had come from court as a governor with peaceful intentions you 10Tovma3    10:20 | meet you with arms and a bow and a sword, with 10Tovma3    10:20 | arms and a bow and a sword, with valiant men and 10Tovma3    10:27 | conferring with much deliberation, as a consequence of their best perceptions 10Tovma3    10:29 | put under the command of a certain general and stationed him 10Tovma3    10:30 | After a few days Bugha commanded them 10Tovma3    10:32 | returned to their encampment with a great victory, rejoicing with unsullied 10Tovma3    10:33 | returned safe and sound, without a single one being wounded. So 10Tovma3    10:33 | returned to their general with a great victory and much booty 10Tovma3    10:34 | the general Bugha this was a terrible disaster. Plunged into anxiety 10Tovma3    10:34 | frantic in his search for a solution. He shut himself up 10Tovma3    10:35 | shame-filled visage. However, not a little fear gripped him, so 10Tovma3    10:36 | ten days had come to a close, his commander requested (permission 10Tovma3    10:37 | army has been gathered and a war fought and swords and 10Tovma3    10:37 | war fought and swords and a battle waged, sometimes they are 10Tovma3    10:41 | made preparations, there was such a great noise of trumpets, lyres 10Tovma3    10:41 | such an awesome sight of a fully arrayed army of any 10Tovma3    10:41 | ends of the world—such a loud and fearsome thunder and 10Tovma3    10:43 | stationed in the open on a hill, and stood there watching 10Tovma3    10:44 | down his spiritual vision as a hymn that begins: “My soul 10Tovma3    10:45 | then Apumusē, called son of a priest, marched out to battle 10Tovma3    10:45 | confronted them. He was like a great iron hill or rock 10Tovma3    10:45 | of adamant; his troops formed a solid mass—as it were 10Tovma3    10:45 | solid mass—as it were a single man 10Tovma3    10:47 | wind, or smoke dissipated by a storm, so did they disappear 10Tovma3    10:48 | between them continued for nearly a full year. And not in 10Tovma3    10:48 | full year. And not in a single confrontation did Apumusē turn 10Tovma3    10:49 | anyone suppose me to be a rebel against the caliph and 10Tovma3    10:49 | if there comes to me a letter from the court sealed 10Tovma3    10:49 | the caliph’s ring, in which a command is written that I 10Tovma3    10:54 | the messengers returned rapidly bringing a letter from the caliph to 10Tovma3    10:54 | Bugha. In it was written a pardon for the damage and 10Tovma3    10:54 | honourable and expensive garments with a decorated helmet and sword. Only 10Tovma3    10:56 | but he received him in a friendly and peaceful fashion with 10Tovma3    10:57 | After a few days had passed, he 10Tovma3    11:1 | that there passed that way a certain Mukat’ of the nobility 10Tovma3    11:4 | Eventually a great and fearsome tumult was 10Tovma3    11:4 | opportunity to respond.” By such a violent uproar of false testimony 10Tovma3    11:5 | Then the tyrant raged like a furious wild beast attacking lambs 10Tovma3    11:5 | them with the rods for a long time until they seemed 10Tovma3    11:7 | full of faith and with a true confession in the Father 10Tovma3    11:8 | seem in my eyes as a joke of children or madmen 10Tovma3    11:8 | your words like those of a senseless man or a crazy 10Tovma3    11:8 | of a senseless man or a crazy and raving dotard 10Tovma3    11:9 | him; he offered himself as a living sacrifice to the Son 10Tovma3    11:10 | was still alive, (Bugha) had a massive and very tall gibbet 10Tovma3    11:10 | of it and suspended in a very high place. Then bringing 10Tovma3    11:10 | cut off his head with a sword and set it back 10Tovma3    11:16 | even more enraged, flaming like a fiery furnace. He had wood 10Tovma3    11:19 | tyrant’s command, the executioners in a circle shot arrows at him 10Tovma3    11:22 | the mountain of Khoyt’ was a man called Yovnan. He it 10Tovma3    11:24 | he would cast him into a snare of destruction, he said 10Tovma3    11:24 | be deprived of life by a cruel death 10Tovma3    11:25 | But the saint, inspired with a noble resolution, said to the 10Tovma3    11:25 | you suppose me to be a young child that you cast 10Tovma3    11:25 | and fanciful deceit, promising me a deceitful and false hope in 10Tovma3    11:26 | deprived themselves of life by a cruel death—such as has 10Tovma3    11:26 | in Jesus, son of Mariam a Jewish woman 10Tovma3    11:29 | the same tenor delivered in a resolute and fearless manner with 10Tovma3    11:30 | gave up the ghost with a true confession in the Father 10Tovma3    11:33 | For a short while he forgave them 10Tovma3    11:33 | that from then on not a single Armenian prince remained who 10Tovma3    11:38 | destruction of Armenia. He despatched a certain Abraham and sent him 10Tovma3    12:3 | is apposite): “In that day a man shall strike his brother 10Tovma3    13:1 | I mean Gurgēn, member of a family that is most splendid 10Tovma3    13:1 | from two royal lines, being a scion of Senek’erim and of 10Tovma3    13:3 | them safe and unsullied. As a good shepherd gives himself to 10Tovma3    13:11 | With forty men he attacked a thousand, killed many of the 10Tovma3    13:16 | the clan of the Artsrunik’, a valiant warrior, from fear of 10Tovma3    13:18 | him Sahak Apumk’dēm, Apujap’r uncle, a brave warrior 10Tovma3    13:19 | and commanders of Vaspurakan at a village called Khozałberk’ 10Tovma3    13:20 | and fled before Apumk’dēm. In a single raid Apumk’dēm had slain 10Tovma3    13:21 | horse caught its foot in a small bush, as they say 10Tovma3    13:26 | only the infantry, discouraged without a leader 10Tovma3    13:34 | At that time a certain Butel from the royal 10Tovma3    13:36 | But the Muslim force recovered a little and stood firm. Then 10Tovma3    13:41 | hope in Christ unbroken, acquired a glorious repute superior to all 10Tovma3    13:42 | him, as the due of a general, a princely sword to 10Tovma3    13:42 | the due of a general, a princely sword to gird him 10Tovma3    13:42 | sword to gird him and a noble belt to encircle his 10Tovma3    13:42 | waist, rods as batons, and a spirited horse that stamped its 10Tovma3    13:46 | us and have set down a comprehensive account 10Tovma3    13:50 | in peace, treating it as a jest 10Tovma3    13:51 | seize the land he raised a force to oppose Gurgēn, but 10Tovma3    13:51 | to oppose Gurgēn, but sustained a defeat rather than victory 10Tovma3    13:52 | Gurgēn’s (land). The latter made a sortie with a few men 10Tovma3    13:52 | latter made a sortie with a few men, rushing down like 10Tovma3    13:52 | few men, rushing down like a torrent of water, and expelled 10Tovma3    13:53 | large force of Vahan in a murky ditch; not a few 10Tovma3    13:53 | in a murky ditch; not a few swords struck at him 10Tovma3    13:53 | swords struck at him, and a certain Juanshēr unexpectedly smote Gurgēn 10Tovma3    13:54 | After a few days Vahan went back 10Tovma3    13:55 | the assault like champions. Like a single person, in armour and 10Tovma3    13:55 | person, in armour and (bearing) a sword for battle, they attacked 10Tovma3    13:56 | Abraham, attacking the Canaanites, waged a continuously victorious struggle and returned 10Tovma3    13:58 | saw their demise confirmed without a doubt 10Tovma3    14:7 | garments, set (in their hands) a princely banner, girded them with 10Tovma3    14:7 | princely banner, girded them with a sword and belt adorned with 10Tovma3    14:7 | with precious stones, (gave them) a select and richly ornamented horse 10Tovma3    14:14 | effect that: “If you confirm a permanent alliance with me in 10Tovma3    14:14 | permanent alliance with me in a peace agreement, I too shall 10Tovma3    14:23 | him with smarting words as a servant of the devil 10Tovma3    14:24 | to him in the prison a handsome person in the form 10Tovma3    14:24 | person in the form of a grey-haired man, shining with 10Tovma3    14:24 | valiantly, arm yourself bravely, be a warrior of Christ 10Tovma3    14:30 | The country began to experience a renewal, the churches to shine 10Tovma3    14:33 | princes remained in danger, seeking a way out of their troubles 10Tovma3    14:37 | A servant of Derenik’s who was 10Tovma3    14:37 | to Gurgēn, for this was a convenient opportunity 10Tovma3    14:38 | and holding in his hand a drawn sword, a sabre and 10Tovma3    14:38 | his hand a drawn sword, a sabre and axe, he note 10Tovma3    14:40 | He reached a village called Eragani, and came 10Tovma3    14:40 | called Eragani, and came to a monk who was priest in 10Tovma3    14:40 | priest in the monastery. As a fearer of God he trusted 10Tovma3    14:40 | The latter enclosed him in a tiny, narrow space, then made 10Tovma3    14:40 | Gurgēn) had died; he was a mad monk full of folly 10Tovma3    14:40 | own will he carried out a crime against himself, for which 10Tovma3    14:41 | goodness. But he rendered him a ready hand and was blessed 10Tovma3    14:43 | And the two made a mutual pact not to be 10Tovma3    14:44 | Ashot might report him as a rebel to the leader of 10Tovma3    14:44 | live in the guise of a vagabond with brave courage, loved 10Tovma3    14:46 | Gathering a force he entered Vantosp; Derenik 10Tovma3    14:50 | saying: “Does it not seem a fine idea to you, most 10Tovma3    14:50 | men, that there would be a trusting alliance between you and 10Tovma3    14:52 | They made a great festival for Derenik’s marriage 10Tovma3    15:3 | bishop Yovhannēs chose for himself a separate eremitic spot, devoting himself 10Tovma3    15:4 | In his place they appointed a certain Yohan, a gentle and 10Tovma3    15:4 | they appointed a certain Yohan, a gentle and pious man, full 10Tovma3    15:9 | at death’s door. He had a son who was an infant 10Tovma3    15:16 | in like fashion Gurgēn found a way to seize the castle 10Tovma3    15:20 | the court, he acted in a supercilious manner, was swollen and 10Tovma3    15:21 | of the wife of Sahak, a son of Ismael, the death 10Tovma3    15:22 | He flamed and burned like a furnace to spew out mortal 10Tovma3    15:24 | At the same time a command was secretly give to 10Tovma3    16:2 | leader of the Muslims gathered a force of cavalry from among 10Tovma3    16:7 | champions surged around. There was a fearsome thunder and frightful echoings 10Tovma3    16:12 | such an intrepid warrior in a place far from the royal 10Tovma3    17:1 | the land of Andzavats’ik’ with a large force and encamped in 10Tovma3    17:5 | give me my rights, as a righteous judge is wont to 10Tovma3    17:6 | of the night, Grigor made a heroic attack; they surrounded (Ashot’s 10Tovma3    17:8 | that same day came with a numerous force and encamped on 10Tovma3    17:10 | other, exchanged greetings, and made a peace treaty (which has lasted 10Tovma3    18:2 | and his son Derenik gathered a force to attack them in 10Tovma3    18:3 | Grigor, and put him in a deep and gloomy dungeon 10Tovma3    18:4 | he turned against another stronghold, a freestanding rock to the east 10Tovma3    18:6 | other side of Vantosp in a rocky, stony hollow between two 10Tovma3    18:10 | the armed rider called Sem, a confidant of Yisē’s. He was 10Tovma3    18:23 | day of the month, on a Thursday. They laid him to 10Tovma3    19:2 | In his days there was a respite from brigands and marauders 10Tovma3    19:5 | one of his trusted men, a certain Yamanik 10Tovma3    19:6 | war against the city for a year in concert with all 10Tovma3    19:12 | They wrote a letter to Yamanik, saying: “When 10Tovma3    19:14 | riding to such and such a place, and have enclosed in 10Tovma3    19:14 | enclosed in the panniers in a package a letter, which they 10Tovma3    19:14 | the panniers in a package a letter, which they are taking 10Tovma3    20:4 | warm, while they were paying a morning call on the emir 10Tovma3    20:7 | Now there was a further reason for holding him 10Tovma3    20:9 | to his fathers; he left a child named Ashot 10Tovma3    20:11 | only Musheł, ruler of Mokk’, a renowned and high-ranking man 10Tovma3    20:11 | of Vasak. He likewise was a lively man embued with wisdom 10Tovma3    20:13 | Finding a suitable occasion they left the 10Tovma3    20:17 | prince ordered his brother Abas, a mighty man and sparapet of 10Tovma3    20:18 | bearing shields and lances, making a solid wall. He brought in 10Tovma3    20:20 | have no fear. He mounted a mule which they were holding 10Tovma3    20:27 | this, but promptly look for a way to render his plans 10Tovma3    20:31 | the messengers with compassion for a relative, in the supposition that 10Tovma3    20:31 | that he had succumbed to a severe illness and was near 10Tovma3    20:32 | for sleep, suddenly there was a glinting of swords and of 10Tovma3    20:36 | such-like. The patriarch mediated a sworn peace treaty, that they 10Tovma3    20:41 | as he (Hasan) had feigned a mock illness to Derenik, the 10Tovma3    20:42 | drawn sword and accompanied by a small band, candles lit, and 10Tovma3    20:44 | After a few days Derenik went to 10Tovma3    20:46 | Fast bubbling tears as from a boiling kettle flow out in 10Tovma3    20:47 | whirlings of the mind is a noble heart forcibly constrained within 10Tovma3    20:49 | I have withdrawn from running a race that demands such great 10Tovma3    20:54 | him, he would not heed a single one 10Tovma3    20:55 | and the city is in a valley-shaped plain, it favoured 10Tovma3    20:56 | sent messengers to take him a response about their meeting. The 10Tovma3    20:57 | armed cavalry galloped rapidly in a disordered attack. Derenik was riding 10Tovma3    20:57 | troops; he was alone in a watercourse. The enemy troops split 10Tovma3    20:58 | and enclosed him as in a secure cave, casting a mortal 10Tovma3    20:58 | in a secure cave, casting a mortal net around him for 10Tovma3    20:59 | The emir had given a signal, like that of Judas 10Tovma3    20:65 | note: “Do not travel with a fearless (man).” But particularly true 10Tovma3    20:66 | province; they placed it in a coffin in the church there 10Tovma3    20:66 | in the church there. After a day had passed, Ashot, Derenik’s 10Tovma3    21:1 | Armenia departed this world at a good old age, having enjoyed 10Tovma3    22:0 | the city of Dvin by a severe earthquake 10Tovma3    22:6 | by Ahmat’s commanders; he was a brave and famous man, renowned 10Tovma3    22:12 | him, and tried to find a solution without disturbing the peace 10Tovma3    22:12 | But the alternative intentions of a majority were carried through for 10Tovma3    22:12 | majority were carried through for a while 10Tovma3    22:13 | brought his Persian dynasty to a high point by notable victories 10Tovma3    22:15 | advance on your land with a powerful army, and let the 10Tovma3    22:17 | of Yisē rather than winning a victory. Eventually the castle’s supplies 10Tovma3    22:19 | planning to seize for himself a part of the country, especially 10Tovma3    22:21 | the spot (called) Karkineank’ with a numerous army. Gurgēn spoke openly 10Tovma3    22:22 | Although Ashot had a smaller force with him, he 10Tovma3    22:22 | own castle of Kanguar, and a few days later his life 10Tovma3    22:22 | life came to an end. A mettlesome horse threw and killed 10Tovma3    22:24 | mutual confidence and trust like a strong city or rampart of 10Tovma3    22:24 | without mistrust; while he found a suitable occasion to seize them 10Tovma3    22:25 | Kanguar in order to find a solution: Yisē lord of Trunik’ 10Tovma3    22:28 | because they had often acquired a victorious reputation 10Tovma3    23:7 | in martial opposition and incited a clash. The valiant warriors of 10Tovma3    24:3 | the king had gone away a distance of two days’ journey 10Tovma3    24:5 | body and placed it in a tomb in the place called 10Tovma3    25:1 | Awshin, son of Apusech, was a man who loved turmoil and 10Tovma3    25:1 | he valued the ruin of a country more highly than its 10Tovma3    25:2 | and stayed there for about a whole year. Awshin, that hater 10Tovma3    25:5 | Awshin entrusted the country to a certain minion Sap’i, a eunuch 10Tovma3    25:5 | to a certain minion Sap’i, a eunuch, from among the Greek 10Tovma3    25:6 | fear, exacting tribute through officials. A strong force remained in the 10Tovma3    25:6 | three valiant brothers arrived with a small band of nobles in 10Tovma3    25:6 | and struck down more than a few with the sword 10Tovma3    25:8 | In this fashion they inflicted a cruel death on all the 10Tovma3    25:9 | Only a certain Arshak from the family 10Tovma3    26:5 | his compassion in his anger. A man named Yovsēp of Greek 10Tovma3    26:5 | origin had entered Awshin’s service; a eunuch, he abandoned the Christian 10Tovma3    26:5 | faith of Mahumat’. He was a ferocious man, savage, unsparing in 10Tovma3    26:10 | suffered dreadful torments; having tasted ( a cup) more bitter than viper’s 10Tovma3    26:16 | and scholarly discipline, he was a man of sweet temperament and 10Tovma3    27:1 | I have undertaken to give a true account of the marvellous 10Tovma3    27:1 | Gagik was general. But not a few regrets have fallen on 10Tovma3    27:2 | been fashioned in wood by a certain skilled craftsman, and a 10Tovma3    27:2 | a certain skilled craftsman, and a silversmith had enclosed the wood 10Tovma3    27:3 | A new Nabuzardan or Zamri from 10Tovma3    27:3 | the heresy of Nestorius appeared, a thrice-miserable and wicked wretch 10Tovma3    27:4 | shore of the lake in a cave in the rock. But 10Tovma3    27:4 | roll down the mountain in a long fall as far as 10Tovma3    27:7 | He ordered a goldsmith to be brought, and 10Tovma3    27:10 | witnesses. Of how much greater a punishment will we think that 10Tovma3    28:0 | of the Muslims called Kaysikk’ a and of the prince of 10Tovma3    28:8 | attacked as one man. In a resolute charge they fell on 10Tovma3    28:16 | The king himself gathered a large army of more than 10Tovma3    29:8 | day of the month, on a Monday at the ninth hour 10Tovma3    29:10 | mind is inadequate to compose a proper lament, let that now 10Tovma3    29:12 | his life prematurely, he acquired a surplus by exchanging the certain 10Tovma3    29:14 | priests, before whom he delivered a full confession of faith: the 10Tovma3    29:15 | enumerating the greatest (examples) in a short time: the adulteress, the 10Tovma3    29:21 | state of the country into a course of calm and peace 10Tovma3    29:26 | had been detached from Vaspurakan a long time before, [211] years in 10Tovma3    29:26 | and the Armenian troops suffered a horrible death 10Tovma3    29:29 | He built a church in the rocky cave 10Tovma3    29:29 | it with similar embellishment, with a silver censer, worked in choice 10Tovma3    29:30 | Right beneath Amrakan, in a hollow spot diagonally to the 10Tovma3    29:30 | to the north, he built a church, constructed in wonderful fashion 10Tovma3    29:30 | built on the same foundation ( a chapel) dedicated to the crucifixion 10Tovma3    29:30 | Golgotha. Above it he constructed a church (dedicated) to the upper 10Tovma3    29:31 | of the altar he built a church in commemoration of the 10Tovma3    29:31 | hell. Above that he built a church (dedicated) to the Ascension 10Tovma3    29:33 | the southern side he provided a staircase cut in the rock 10Tovma3    29:34 | his seemly wisdom he prepared a water tunnel underground, cutting channels 10Tovma3    29:34 | construction that was built like a city, improving on the construction 10Tovma3    29:35 | city of Getk’, he constructed a splendid place of pleasure, surrounding 10Tovma3    29:35 | pleasure, surrounding with palatial buildings a hill from which one could 10Tovma3    29:36 | the river Araxes, he built a stronghold impregnable to mounted raiders 10Tovma3    29:36 | rooms, sufficient for his needs, a little below the place called 10Tovma3    29:37 | He found there a strong rocky place secure from 10Tovma3    29:37 | with ramparts. He established there a splendid palace, beautifully adorned for 10Tovma3    29:38 | life for his sheep like a good shepherd, raising a lofty 10Tovma3    29:38 | like a good shepherd, raising a lofty and grand memorial, an 10Tovma3    29:39 | that was crowned by Christ, a pedestal for God’s feet, in 10Tovma3    29:40 | into sweet-smelling wood, leaving a part open from the golden 10Tovma3    29:40 | and on its front (fitted) a square cross-shaped wooden casket 10Tovma3    29:43 | begun his constructions. He built a high embankment at the village 10Tovma3    29:43 | Hayk. He appointed as abbot a certain priest named Yovhannēs from 10Tovma3    29:44 | Here he organised a settlement of monks and entrusted 10Tovma3    29:44 | above-mentioned priest, who was a gentle man, humble and honourable 10Tovma3    29:45 | There he built a splendid and glorious church dedicated 10Tovma3    29:46 | flesh from the Virgin as a house and tabernacle, and that 10Tovma3    29:51 | The stones were hewn at a good distance—about three stadia 10Tovma3    29:51 | far and near. He made a vociferous proclamation, as though he 10Tovma3    29:51 | proclamation, as though he meant a verbal warning, and had a 10Tovma3    29:51 | a verbal warning, and had a clear announcement broadcast to inform 10Tovma3    29:54 | Prince Gagik had formed a navigable route over the waves 10Tovma3    29:62 | with Satanic mischief, they raised a cry to all cities, and 10Tovma3    29:62 | to all cities, and created a tumult in their wild raving 10Tovma3    29:65 | was lying in wait like a lion cub in its den 10Tovma3    29:65 | had befallen them. He returned a response full of encouraging advice 10Tovma3    29:65 | exhortation to the hope of a martyr’s crown: if in that 10Tovma3    29:66 | left his fortified position with a small force, the garrison of 10Tovma3    29:66 | village of P’aytakshtan. There, from a slightly higher position, they rushed 10Tovma3    29:66 | position, they rushed down like a torrent to attack them, taking 10Tovma3    29:69 | inhabitants of Parskahayk’, marching in a confused rabble, secretly passed by 10Tovma3    29:71 | But he was wounded by a sword, and died a martyr’s 10Tovma3    29:71 | by a sword, and died a martyr’s death in the village 10Tovma3    29:73 | arrival, the Muslims fled to a distance and occupied the strongholds 10Tovma3    29:74 | and equipped, and marched by a circuitous route in order to 10Tovma3    29:74 | at the ninth hour on a Friday, he passed by the 10Tovma3    29:75 | the camp, put more than a few to the sword, and 10Tovma3    29:75 | to the sword, and reached a hollow at the village of 10Tovma3    29:76 | suddenly they were attacked by a band of raging infidels including 10Tovma3    29:77 | The Armenian force suffered a terrible disaster, only a few 10Tovma3    29:77 | suffered a terrible disaster, only a few from the large number 10Tovma3    29:80 | presenting what had happened as a misfortune and accident, and (begging 10Tovma4    1:3 | race of Ismaelites had seized a long time before. His ancestors 10Tovma4    1:12 | prince) saw this, he undertook a sublime plan. In order to 10Tovma4    1:13 | him in the castle in a friendly and peaceful manner 10Tovma4    1:14 | Finding a suitable opportunity, Hasan seized the 10Tovma4    1:16 | way openly, they turned to a man who was very dear 10Tovma4    1:17 | Just as fire thrives on a large supply of wood, so 10Tovma4    1:21 | former, alleging that this was a violation of his pact of 10Tovma4    1:21 | see his glorious face. Taking a deadly present, he came to 10Tovma4    1:23 | two) men were separated by a noisy rushing stream that was 10Tovma4    1:30 | saying: “Who made my head a reservoir of water, and my 10Tovma4    1:31 | with him go up to a high watchtower to cry out 10Tovma4    1:36 | loss spread over Armenia like a heavy thundercloud filled with wrath 10Tovma4    1:39 | land of Armenia remains without a lord 10Tovma4    1:40 | cock, or trap him in a snare, without himself being torn 10Tovma4    1:43 | herself in black, and prepared a dark-coloured covering for her 10Tovma4    1:48 | without an effort and gained a glorious name for himself and 10Tovma4    1:51 | day not befall us in a great battle among the jostling 10Tovma4    1:53 | us success in bringing to a final conclusion the extensive story 10Tovma4    2:1 | he ruled his principality like a man with the help of 10Tovma4    2:5 | this, King Ashot lived for a year and a half before 10Tovma4    2:5 | lived for a year and a half before leaving the world 10Tovma4    2:6 | Their relatives found this a suitable occasion to begin seizing 10Tovma4    2:7 | Then Apumruan came forward with a plan, for he wished to 10Tovma4    2:7 | shall rule the country as a substitute in the name of 10Tovma4    2:9 | Then, when there were a few days of leisure, he 10Tovma4    2:11 | he had tricked Ashot like a young child by giving him 10Tovma4    2:12 | fraud by saying: “I am a man without heirs, save only 10Tovma4    3:1 | the blessed youth Gagik as a chosen vessel worthy of his 10Tovma4    3:1 | that he would become such a person, he bestowed on him 10Tovma4    3:1 | been said by the prophet: “ A just king reestablishes the land 10Tovma4    3:3 | Even from a youthful age he was a 10Tovma4    3:3 | a youthful age he was a budding source of virtue 10Tovma4    3:4 | Hence the youth is a great source of amazement to 10Tovma4    3:4 | land always treated him in a friendly way. For wisdom flowed 10Tovma4    3:5 | he made the decision of a true warrior to kill Apumruan 10Tovma4    3:6 | death by the sword in a park of the town of 10Tovma4    3:10 | Because for a nation that was in darkness 10Tovma4    3:10 | was in darkness he placed a shining torch on the highest 10Tovma4    3:10 | on the highest point of a castle that was fortified around 10Tovma4    3:11 | He was a tall tower built with strong 10Tovma4    3:11 | stones bonded in lead, like a wall of bronze, firmly nailed 10Tovma4    3:11 | the sublime principality of Armenia; a place of refuge to which 10Tovma4    3:12 | He was a rational sword, blazing with the 10Tovma4    3:12 | into them, he brought to a halt those who waxed insolent 10Tovma4    3:13 | From a youthful and inexperienced age he 10Tovma4    3:13 | age he rose up like a lion cub delightful in his 10Tovma4    3:15 | saying of the wise man: “ A brother helped by a brother 10Tovma4    3:15 | man: “A brother helped by a brother will become like a 10Tovma4    3:15 | a brother will become like a strong city.” He began to 10Tovma4    3:20 | Ap’shin came to Armenia with a numberless armed force and attacked 10Tovma4    3:23 | the king of Armenia, sent a messenger to ask Ap’shin for 10Tovma4    3:28 | the land of Vaspurakan with a numberless host 10Tovma4    3:32 | He sent a eunuch named Yiwsr with a 10Tovma4    3:32 | a eunuch named Yiwsr with a large army to wage battle 10Tovma4    3:35 | When spring arrived, a eunuch whom he had appointed 10Tovma4    3:37 | him, but smote him with a painful ulcer through a holy 10Tovma4    3:37 | with a painful ulcer through a holy angel—as once (he 10Tovma4    3:40 | So he despatched a force to besiege the castle 10Tovma4    3:42 | the (saying) of the sage: “ A man will not succeed by 10Tovma4    3:43 | bandit Hasan. The roof of a house weakened and collapsed, and 10Tovma4    3:44 | messengers. They besieged it for a few days, then put out 10Tovma4    3:45 | were opened. straightaway he became a monk, and lived a holy 10Tovma4    3:45 | became a monk, and lived a holy life until the day 10Tovma4    3:49 | prince of Vaspurakan, intervened with a few troops, and with much 10Tovma4    3:49 | help from on high, inflicted a great defeat on the enemy 10Tovma4    3:49 | control. But falling prey to a mortal illness, he departed this 10Tovma4    4:4 | son of Maymanik, who by a deceitful ruse had seized the 10Tovma4    4:4 | insolence, supposing himself to be a great personage 10Tovma4    4:6 | accomplices were placed. Suddenly, like a fruit that falls of its 10Tovma4    4:8 | before him. And they raised a cry, pouring forth tears and 10Tovma4    4:9 | afraid of them. Just as a lion sated from the hunt 10Tovma4    4:11 | For he loved him with a very affectionate and joyous heart 10Tovma4    4:11 | in his thoughtful oversight as a father to a son, and 10Tovma4    4:11 | oversight as a father to a son, and openly aided him 10Tovma4    4:12 | the land. For he was a harsh man, brave and very 10Tovma4    4:13 | prosperity of the land by a mutual exchange of provinces and 10Tovma4    4:18 | two difficult obstacles and winning a brave victory. In the first 10Tovma4    4:18 | was completely frozen over with a covering of snow 10Tovma4    4:19 | mountains as if marching on a flat road. The lords and 10Tovma4    4:21 | Now a long time past the Muslims 10Tovma4    4:23 | Amiuk with its province remained a great unhealed wound in the 10Tovma4    4:24 | turn) afflicted them. So conceiving a grand plan, he stole on 10Tovma4    4:31 | prince Gagik had also appointed a general to command the province 10Tovma4    4:31 | the house of the Akēats’ik’, a loyal and brave-hearted man 10Tovma4    4:31 | war, and shone out as a glorious and famous soldier in 10Tovma4    4:33 | came to him, saying: “Behold, a force of Muslims crossed into 10Tovma4    4:34 | set off in pursuit with a few troops, and came upon 10Tovma4    4:37 | this (at the hands) of a few, how shall we be 10Tovma4    4:37 | Struck with fear, they beat a retreat, and their evil plans 10Tovma4    4:38 | Smbat, king of Armenia, developed a grudge and tried to arouse 10Tovma4    4:38 | tried to arouse the Muslims a second time against the prince 10Tovma4    4:41 | more severe. By royal command a certain great ostikan gained the 10Tovma4    4:41 | named Yusup’, son of Apusach, a proud and notable man, more 10Tovma4    4:42 | back the royal tribute. Not a few envoys with messages passed 10Tovma4    4:43 | Gagik, he had desired for a long time to see him 10Tovma4    4:46 | to mankind, becoming for him a mother of understanding and a 10Tovma4    4:46 | a mother of understanding and a nurse of wisdom 10Tovma4    4:47 | the Persian ruler Yusup’ was a man of powerful mind, but 10Tovma4    4:48 | and deeds, asking him for a solution; and he was assisted 10Tovma4    4:51 | him. He found him like a high mountain, immovable by the 10Tovma4    4:56 | besieged the castle, and after a few days captured him like 10Tovma4    4:56 | few days captured him like a weak child 10Tovma4    4:58 | On his head he placed a crown of pure gold, artfully 10Tovma4    4:59 | He clothed him in a robe embroidered with gold, a 10Tovma4    4:59 | a robe embroidered with gold, a girdle and sword shining with 10Tovma4    4:60 | He set him on a horse splendidly caparisoned with a 10Tovma4    4:60 | a horse splendidly caparisoned with a golden harness, shining like the 10Tovma4    4:63 | over Armenia, he sent him a crown and wonderfully decorated robes 10Tovma4    4:64 | with the dignity of wearing a crown, especially a Christian and 10Tovma4    4:64 | of wearing a crown, especially a Christian and orthodox believer and 10Tovma4    4:64 | orthodox believer and son of a king, the hereditary and legitimate 10Tovma4    4:64 | it too audacious to repeat a second time that the tyrant 10Tovma4    4:67 | brought for the second time a crown and splendid garments from 10Tovma4    4:67 | and honoured King Gagik with a second glory even greater than 10Tovma4    4:69 | With the award of such a large number of cities and 10Tovma4    4:69 | that land). He also sent a crown and splendid garments to 10Tovma4    4:71 | wise man: “The mourning of a wise man lasts seven days 10Tovma4    4:71 | seven days, but that of a fool all his life.” He 10Tovma4    4:72 | the flesh for our sake, a pleasing gift was offered to 10Tovma4    4:72 | offered to the Father in a sweet odour 10Tovma4    4:75 | peace in flowing torrents like a river or sea, which our 10Tovma4    5:2 | and having made (with him) a peace treaty, he went to 10Tovma4    5:3 | he was planning to enjoy a peaceful existence, suddenly royal messengers 10Tovma4    5:4 | He set off with a numberless host of troops, leaving 10Tovma4    5:4 | defeated and he himself captured. A little later he was killed 10Tovma4    6:2 | king is the son of a maidservant 10Tovma4    6:3 | Again elsewhere he says: “ A land is shaken by three 10Tovma4    6:3 | cannot resist the fourth. If a slave rules, he shakes the 10Tovma4    7:1 | for me here to undertake a most splendid task, leaving it 10Tovma4    7:1 | splendid task, leaving it as a memorial to those who will 10Tovma4    7:1 | this land of Armenia as a father and guardian. In his 10Tovma4    7:3 | penny of his silver as a fine.” And if he sees 10Tovma4    7:3 | me?” And if he sees a spring of crystal-pure water 10Tovma4    7:4 | But the character of a king who is not avaricious 10Tovma4    7:4 | free and unsullied by such a fearful affliction; he cares not 10Tovma4    7:8 | king undertook to build there a palace and pavilions and splendid 10Tovma4    7:9 | stones, placing the foundation at a fearful depth. And on top 10Tovma4    7:9 | facing the sea, he built a pavilion for gatherings which was 10Tovma4    8:0 | and those who constructed there a few buildings unworthy of mention 10Tovma4    8:3 | and recognising that it was a refuge from enemy raids, he 10Tovma4    8:3 | to build on it in a fearsome and amazing fashion 10Tovma4    8:4 | effort in this way for a time, the great king astonishingly 10Tovma4    8:4 | king astonishingly succeeded in forming a stone embankment raised five cubits 10Tovma4    8:4 | top of this he drew a line and raised a fortified 10Tovma4    8:4 | drew a line and raised a fortified wall around (the island 10Tovma4    8:5 | the wall he led into a narrow cavern difficult of access 10Tovma4    8:6 | on the island side, making a wonderfully calm and secure harbour 10Tovma4    8:6 | secure harbour for many ships— a construction superior to the city 10Tovma4    8:7 | that the place should become a refuge from all the raids 10Tovma4    8:9 | trees, which were watered from a sweet and never-failing spring 10Tovma4    8:10 | ordered one of these men, a wise and skillful architect, to 10Tovma4    8:10 | and skillful architect, to construct a square palace, forty cubits wide 10Tovma4    8:11 | was three large strides deep, a mass of pure mortar and 10Tovma4    8:11 | and stone, as it were a fusion of lead and bronze 10Tovma4    8:11 | summit, took the form of a bird in flight, without the 10Tovma4    8:12 | at them, as if honouring a king first he must remove 10Tovma4    8:14 | the palace, it would be a great labour for himself and 10Tovma4    8:15 | are closed, they appear as a single piece 10Tovma4    8:16 | A trustworthy official, one of the 10Tovma4    8:16 | sides of the province as a great hill in the middle 10Tovma4    8:19 | great benefactor and ancestor of a heroic and distinguished house 10Tovma4    9:0 | distant lands. We shall give a faithful picture of it and 10Tovma4    9:1 | bravery. Restraining their cheeks in a bridle, as it were, he 10Tovma4    9:4 | near the gates of Asorestan a fortress in the principality of 10Tovma4    9:4 | the principality of Ałdznik’ in a village called Kotom, which was 10Tovma4    9:4 | holy church, forming (with them) a temple of glory in place 10Tovma4    9:6 | Manuēl, whom we mentioned above, a man full of wisdom and 10Tovma4    9:6 | skillfully built the church as a marvellous and wonderful construction. To 10Tovma4    9:6 | the sculptural relief (depicting) in a true likeness (the figures) beginning 10Tovma4    9:7 | and sides of the church a splendid frieze arranged in detailed 10Tovma4    9:9 | on flesh and appeared as a man. In a true likeness 10Tovma4    9:9 | appeared as a man. In a true likeness he arranged opposite 10Tovma4    9:9 | church on his arms like a gold vessel full of manna 10Tovma4    9:9 | vessel full of manna, or a golden box filled with perfume 10Tovma4    9:11 | of the church is set a gallery with a vaulted staircase 10Tovma4    9:11 | is set a gallery with a vaulted staircase going down from 10Tovma4    9:11 | to bottom, to act as a place of prayer for the 10Tovma4    9:14 | Truly this was once a thirsty desert, but is now 10Tovma4    9:15 | bishops and princes, he celebrated a great and joyous festival with 10Tovma4    10:2 | At that time a certain man, Arab by race 10Tovma4    10:4 | of related blood, came with a numerous force to seek vengeance 10Tovma4    10:6 | warfare, fell upon him with a few troops and put him 10Tovma4    10:13 | his armour and putting on a valiant mien, took the troops 10Tovma4    10:15 | Striking those impious ones like a spark among reeds, he routed 10Tovma4    10:15 | the plain, like sheaves in a full field in the days 10Tovma4    11:1 | In those days a group of Delmik troops advanced 10Tovma4    11:2 | to their own abodes after a great victory 10Tovma4    12:1 | that he would become such a man, from his mother’s womb 10Tovma4    12:2 | he also bestowed on him a luminous visage and glorious stature 10Tovma4    12:2 | and curly, carefully arranged above a dazzling white forehead in very 10Tovma4    12:2 | that shaded the eyes like a lily flowering in valleys, spreading 10Tovma4    12:3 | believe good news, shone with a luminous colour 10Tovma4    12:4 | His lips were like a red line; his teeth were 10Tovma4    12:6 | he reigned like Josiah over a new Israel, but (in a 10Tovma4    12:6 | a new Israel, but (in a way) superior to him perfected 10Tovma4    12:7 | of Easter, he arose like a groom from the wedding chamber 10Tovma4    12:10 | He was a firebrand to brigands and repelled 10Tovma4    12:16 | gifts unfailing. He was also a sweet-smelling garden, filled with 10Tovma4    12:17 | his own house he was a verdant plant with golden leaves 10Tovma4    12:18 | To his sons he was a school of virtue and an 10Tovma4    12:20 | their fearsome winds he was a high mountain and unshakeable rock 10Tovma4    12:21 | He was a consuming fire for the knavish 10Tovma4    12:22 | and barbarian tyrants he was a burning, perpetually turning nail 10Tovma4    12:24 | grand in his majesty like a powerful lion, and heightened in 10Tovma4    12:25 | night to gilded chambers like a dragon. The awe of his 10Tovma4    12:26 | and his subjects he was a shade of secure defense, and 10Tovma4    13:1 | My peoples will wander without a lord.” The race of Hagar 10Tovma4    13:2 | any hope or expectation; only a few remained of the Armenian 10Tovma4    13:3 | and there remained not even a cave which God did not 10Tovma4    13:4 | any young person. They are a nation wicked and cruel, a 10Tovma4    13:4 | a nation wicked and cruel, a nation that has not directed 10Tovma4    13:6 | At that time (there lived) a certain renowned man, related to 10Tovma4    13:9 | rocky summit and settled in a hollow on the same mountain 10Tovma4    13:10 | province of Vaspurakan, which became a place of security for refugees 10Tovma4    13:13 | of Constantinople were held by a God-loving and pious man 10Tovma4    13:14 | emperor of the Greeks as a son to his father. The 10Tovma4    13:17 | was called Sultan Tułlup, launched a cavalry attack like an eagle 10Tovma4    13:18 | In similar fashion, a certain eunuch, baneful and licentious 10Tovma4    13:19 | where God dwells. These enjoyed a beautiful position, defended by the 10Tovma4    13:20 | according to Solomon’s exhortation. Like a cock strutting among forests, or 10Tovma4    13:20 | cock strutting among forests, or a goat in front of flocks 10Tovma4    13:20 | in front of flocks, or a king in his army, so 10Tovma4    13:21 | divinely protected and impregnable fortresses a man related to King Senek’erim 10Tovma4    13:21 | Abdlmseh. He had survived like a spark from thunderbolts of fire 10Tovma4    13:24 | being) modest, humble, liberal, merciful; a lover of prayer and of 10Tovma4    13:24 | for orphans; he never made a false oath to his fellow 10Tovma4    13:25 | spoken and sweet-voiced like a turtledove. He had married the 10Tovma4    13:26 | way inferior to holy queens; a lover of prayer and of 10Tovma4    13:28 | cross, on which there was a drop of life-giving blood 10Tovma4    13:29 | the great prince named Khedenek, a kinsman of King Senek’erim and 10Tovma4    13:30 | He begat Prince T’oṙnik, a powerful man and a warrior 10Tovma4    13:30 | T’oṙnik, a powerful man and a warrior valiant in deeds of 10Tovma4    13:31 | born the great prince T’adēos, a man excellent in warfare. By 10Tovma4    13:33 | and earthquakes; and in heaven a sign in the sun and 10Tovma4    13:37 | was compassionate to them as a father for his children. Long 10Tovma4    13:44 | of man to grass and a flower that is shaken, its 10Tovma4    13:44 | is shaken, its similarity to a passing frivolity, a daily hireling 10Tovma4    13:44 | similarity to a passing frivolity, a daily hireling, and vanity. He 10Tovma4    13:46 | of Nav; for he was a virgin holy and brave, who 10Tovma4    13:47 | of the holy apostles and a type of the twelve nations 10Tovma4    13:52 | Spirit had previously indicated by a vision to Saint Sahak the 10Tovma4    13:53 | saints, and the line and a half in black ink, and 10Tovma4    13:57 | For he was a God-loving and pious man 10Tovma4    13:57 | he had heard elsewhere that: “ A disobedient son shall go to 10Tovma4    13:60 | Lord; the other he saw a lord and prince, splendid in 10Tovma4    13:61 | the Lord. He himself at a good old age fell asleep 10Tovma4    13:64 | his own in Armenia like a ship in the midst of 10Tovma4    13:71 | summer. God had granted him a brilliant son, a beam of 10Tovma4    13:71 | granted him a brilliant son, a beam of light, named after 10Tovma4    13:72 | God revealed him to be a glorious boast for us, having 10Tovma4    13:74 | Egypt, so likewise he became a cause of prosperity for the 10Tovma4    13:77 | and had it renovated as a memorial to himself and his 10Tovma4    13:77 | the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of blessings 10Tovma4    13:83 | good and liberally minded, and a lover of the poor and 10Tovma4    13:87 | or missing therein, be it a full stop, a line, a 10Tovma4    13:87 | be it a full stop, a line, a comma, or any 10Tovma4    13:87 | a full stop, a line, a comma, or any other expression 10Tovma4    13:88 | grant me and my parents a “ Lord have mercy” so that 10Tovma4    13:89 | priest Simeon, who taught me a few books from his many 10Tovma4    13:90 | true brothers, (that there was) a certain man, renowned and adorned 10Tovma4    13:91 | the half of Alt’amar. After a short time when Khedenik grew 10Tovma4    13:92 | After a few days the Lord God 10Tovma4    13:92 | provided fruit for his loins, a thriving and fine son, the 10Tovma4    13:92 | he departed this world after a prematurely short life and few 10Tovma4    13:96 | an iron rampart, and like a gate of bronze, he resisted 10Tovma4    13:96 | wicked Muslim warriors. He was a lover of building and (responsible 10Tovma4    13:96 | many furnishings. He also built a house of prayer and living 10Tovma4    13:97 | Holy Cross he built on a beautiful and spacious site behind 10Tovma4    13:100 | of love he decided on a good plan: “After my death 10Tovma4    13:104 | holy patriarch Lord Zak’aria. With a good confession and orthodox profession 10Tovma4    13:105 | merciful God make Lord Zak’aria a companion and sharer of the 10Tovma4    13:105 | patriarchs past and recent. After a little time the death of 10Tovma4    13:107 | Then Lord Dawit’ rose like a shining star, like the sun 10Tovma4    13:107 | the sun at noon, like a cloud gleaming with lightning, or 11Asogh1    1:5 | awarded (mercy) from God , (as a result) their memory, (surrounded) by 11Asogh1    1:5 | to this day there is a bad rumor about them 11Asogh1    2:3 | The first (part includes a period of time), starting from 11Asogh1    2:7 | for [30] years, he is either a prince, or a prince of 11Asogh1    2:7 | is either a prince, or a prince of princes in Armenia 11Asogh1    2:7 | in Armenia and Iberia, or a winner of all the surrounding 11Asogh1    2:7 | all the surrounding peoples, or a ( man), improving the life of 11Asogh1    2:7 | decorating churches in Armenia. As a pleasant, meek, immaculate man, he 11Asogh1    3:1 | reigned for [26] years: he was a peace-loving man, caring for 11Asogh1    3:1 | he did not look like a stingy Greek, who usually is 11Asogh1    3:4 | From young age, he lived a desert life, eating only vegetables 11Asogh1    3:4 | of residence, where he built a church in the name of 11Asogh1    3:5 | A numerous brotherhood gathered here, governed 11Asogh1    3:8 | in [346=897], Bishop Yovhannes of Dvin, a rhetorician and historian, (ruled) for 11Asogh1    3:13 | the village of Shirakawan with a high dome and walls made 11Asogh1    3:15 | Then he started a war with Ahmad, who defeated 11Asogh1    3:16 | the city of Dvin in a pitiful way 11Asogh1    3:19 | his brother (as proof of a new) assertion of (his) royal 11Asogh1    4:2 | not recognize his authority; wrote a letter, which, along with gifts 11Asogh1    4:2 | the Caliph of Babylon (with a request) - to free him from 11Asogh1    4:4 | Smbat, at the head of a large army, occupied all the 11Asogh1    4:5 | Despite this, Yusuf, like a thief, having made his way 11Asogh1    4:5 | him for peace, sends Smbat a gift of many rich things 11Asogh1    4:5 | gift of many rich things, a golden crown, and he himself 11Asogh1    4:8 | alliance with Yusuf), involuntarily sends a large army, (but at the 11Asogh1    4:9 | obedience to the caliph, gathered a large army and with the 11Asogh1    4:10 | the prince of Vaspurakan Gagik, a nephew (on Smbat’s sister side 11Asogh1    4:12 | the fortress and, having started a battle with the Kua fortress 11Asogh1    4:13 | again went to Armenia with a larger army 11Asogh1    4:14 | two sons, Ashot and Mushegh. A battle ensued at a place 11Asogh1    4:14 | Mushegh. A battle ensued at a place called Jknavachar, where the 11Asogh1    4:17 | who remained with him, taking a wand in his hand, went 11Asogh1    4:17 | him with him, went on a campaign against Dvin; from here 11Asogh1    5:2 | who turned their will to a saving life, kindled their minds 11Asogh1    5:2 | and, lovingly accepting death, received a bright crown in return. At 11Asogh1    5:3 | youngest of them, named Michael, a native of Gugark, he attracted 11Asogh1    5:3 | from death, he thought with a promise of (earthly) greatness to 11Asogh1    5:4 | But Michael, with a cry and tears, turned his 11Asogh1    5:4 | to God the Father as a sacrifice of fragrance 11Asogh1    5:7 | them to be killed with a sword 11Asogh1    5:9 | Beloved brother, you first offer a reasonable sacrifice to our hope 11Asogh1    5:9 | of them were crowned with a bloody wreath 11Asogh1    5:11 | Only a few, seduced by the promises 11Asogh1    5:11 | lost eternal light. — That was a dark time for Armenia 11Asogh1    5:13 | whole Armenian land turned into a desert and ruins: the cities 11Asogh1    5:14 | of our holy Illuminator, on a mountain called Mane, in the 11Asogh1    5:15 | the country and reigned over a part of Armenia, (namely) Vaspurakan 11Asogh1    5:16 | the malevolent dragon [i.e.] (Yusuf), receives a royal crown from him instead 11Asogh1    5:17 | in Armenia, devastated it with a sword, hunger and captivity 11Asogh1    6:4 | of his reign, he gathered a large army and, under the 11Asogh1    7:3 | of the Caucasian mountains, undertook a campaign at the head of 11Asogh1    7:5 | that time) the king built a cathedral church in the city 11Asogh1    7:5 | large granite, steel-hewn stones, ( a church completed) with a magnificent 11Asogh1    7:5 | stones, (a church completed) with a magnificent dome, painted like a 11Asogh1    7:5 | a magnificent dome, painted like a heavenly vault 11Asogh1    7:8 | Once a detachment of Abkhazians, having crossed 11Asogh1    7:9 | He immediately demanded a horse; put on armor and 11Asogh1    7:9 | put on armor and, with a double-edged sword in his 11Asogh1    7:9 | and began to strike with a powerful hand. He overturned (enemy 11Asogh1    7:9 | of the river served as a grave. (After that) he went 11Asogh1    7:19 | for passers-by, he arranged a place of rest in the 11Asogh1    7:20 | on the above-mentioned principles: a magnificent monastery (with brothers), versed 11Asogh1    7:20 | was celebrated with solemnity with a large choir of singers 11Asogh1    7:22 | his death he served as a herald of life, becoming a 11Asogh1    7:22 | a herald of life, becoming a good example for near and 11Asogh1    7:23 | Lent they ate food once a day and quenched their thirst 11Asogh1    7:24 | Karberd district, Father Moves built a monastery, named after him: a 11Asogh1    7:24 | a monastery, named after him: a well-maintained monastery, with numerous 11Asogh1    7:25 | by spreading monasticism, he did a lot of good, being the 11Asogh1    7:26 | same rules by Father Sargis; a comfortable monastery called Kaputakar, in 11Asogh1    7:27 | none of them even had a mite; they all had a 11Asogh1    7:27 | a mite; they all had a common meal and no one 11Asogh1    7:28 | it possible to convey in a few words the great virtues 11Asogh1    7:28 | hourly. They considered earthly life a shadow; in the deserts, in 11Asogh1    7:29 | obedient to him, and once a lioness, dragging a deer skin 11Asogh1    7:29 | and once a lioness, dragging a deer skin in front of 11Asogh1    7:30 | arms in the form of a beggar. Once he went to 11Asogh1    7:30 | midst of the ruins was a church, which he chose as 11Asogh1    7:31 | here, (saying) that there is a dragon with deadly breath. But 11Asogh1    7:34 | elder Basil (Basilios), who owned a powerful word, a skillful interpreter 11Asogh1    7:34 | who owned a powerful word, a skillful interpreter of the divine 11Asogh1    7:34 | of the divine law; Grigor, a priest with abundant speech in 11Asogh1    7:34 | commandments of the Lord; Stepanos, a disciple of Basil (Barsech), nicknamed 11Asogh1    7:35 | David, nicknamed Mashkoten, a learned man who (always) walked 11Asogh1    7:35 | of St. Scriptures, and Ananias, a great philosopher, a monk of 11Asogh1    7:35 | and Ananias, a great philosopher, a monk of Narek (monastery), who 11Asogh1    7:35 | of Narek (monastery), who wrote a book against the heresy of 11Asogh1    7:36 | orders of Bishop Ananias, after a deep study of the divine 11Asogh1    7:36 | and on their basis decided a second baptism for the followers 11Asogh1    7:37 | us, but that he died a human death, and (therefore) they 11Asogh1    7:40 | Hamtun, at the head of a large army, entered the Colony 11Asogh1    7:41 | Constantine sent demeslikos Chmshkik with a large army near Karin, and 11Asogh1    7:42 | grandson, Kiwr-Zan, who was a young man at that time 11Asogh1    8:5 | after his death not even a penny was found in his 11Asogh1    8:8 | rector of Sanahin was Yovhannes, a learned man of God; (by 11Asogh1    8:8 | servant of God Simeon of a strict life 11Asogh1    8:9 | Bishop Ananias, having reached a ripe old age, died in 11Asogh1    8:11 | He started a correspondence with the followers of 11Asogh1    8:11 | wanted to get closer; as a result of which the monastic 11Asogh1    8:11 | Arsharunik Bishop Xachik, Father Polycarpos - a monk of the Kamrjajsor Monastery 11Asogh1    8:11 | the Kamrjajsor Monastery, Father Sargis - a monk of the monastery, (called 11Asogh1    8:11 | Horomos vank, Father Stepanos (Stephan) a monk of the Sewan Monastery 11Asogh1    8:13 | of Shahanshah Ashot, approved Stepanos, a monk of Sewan, as the 11Asogh1    8:21 | for [7] years (from [963-969]). He won a great victory over the army 11Asogh1    8:23 | Nikephoros, came to Apahunik with a large army, surrounded the city 11Asogh1    8:27 | Kiwr-Zan, from a very young age, with his 11Asogh1    9:0 | Khachik and the construction of a church and a patriarchal palace 11Asogh1    9:0 | construction of a church and a patriarchal palace in the village 11Asogh1    9:3 | same village, (Bishop Khachik) built a cathedral church of hewn stone 11Asogh1    9:3 | stone, bound with iron, with a dome painted like the sky 11Asogh1    9:4 | cross of Christ, who, with a weak word, but with great 11Asogh1    9:6 | monastery in the Karin district, a man equal to the first 11Asogh1    9:9 | finally, Yovhannes, who was once a priest 11Asogh1    10:0 | in Amida: the appearance of a star; - death of king Kiwr 11Asogh1    10:1 | to the city and began a battle with the garrison, where 11Asogh1    10:1 | and, suddenly and unexpectedly attacking a detachment standing at the city 11Asogh1    10:2 | at the beginning of summer, a spear-shaped star appeared: it 11Asogh1    10:2 | light in the form of a spear extended west to the 11Asogh1    11:2 | filled the ditches, he raised a new wall on them, surrounding 11Asogh1    11:2 | space of the city, with a gate of cedar wood, reinforced 11Asogh1    11:5 | After all this Smbat started a war with his cousin (paternal 11Asogh1    11:6 | As a result of this, the Tayk’s 11Asogh1    11:6 | arrived in Shirak, stopped in a village called Bavats-dzor (in 11Asogh1    11:7 | possessions, because the kouropalates was ( a person) peaceful and fair 11Asogh1    12:2 | Shoghakat with lasso in [431=982]; as a result of which the wrath 11Asogh1    13:3 | of Chuvash (Vaspurakan province) in a place called Bakear, where he 11Asogh1    13:6 | And (when) they, in a madness, gave them weapons, the 11Asogh1    13:7 | the bodies of the dead, a sign of pagan filth was 11Asogh1    14:1 | Skleros, having set aside for a time, began to reign in 11Asogh1    14:1 | and Melitine countries. Bardas was a brave man and well-versed 11Asogh1    14:4 | which, confused as if by a whirlwind, partly died under their 11Asogh1    14:7 | A severe famine spread throughout the 11Asogh1    14:8 | the district of Taron with a sword and captivity, plundering the 11Asogh1    15:1 | by birth, who had been a monk on the holy mountain 11Asogh1    15:1 | kouropalates of Tayk David, with a proposal to pass to him 11Asogh1    15:7 | of Martyropolis, aka Nprkert, in a place called Pshpash 11Asogh1    15:8 | King Basil sent a messenger to King Bardas to 11Asogh1    16:1 | order, he took cities, with a word he drove the inhabitants 11Asogh1    16:2 | each house they give him a dog in the form of 11Asogh1    16:4 | wooden palace, which was on a high rock, by means of 11Asogh1    16:8 | wax candles himself personally burned a pile of flax; (and not 11Asogh1    16:10 | He ordered (to mint a coin) silver with an admixture 11Asogh1    17:3 | he showed himself to be a magnificent man, full of reason 11Asogh1    17:4 | And he became a different person, set about doing 11Asogh1    17:4 | to the historian, according to a hereditary will 11Asogh1    17:6 | condemned the captured robbers to a just death, sparing neither big 11Asogh1    17:7 | the disorder that had become a habit in Armenia: (before him 11Asogh1    17:7 | eggs, etc. Abas he set a good example on himself: abstaining 11Asogh1    17:8 | After that, Abas conceived a good deed - to build a 11Asogh1    17:8 | a good deed - to build a monastery for the salvation of 11Asogh1    17:9 | To do this, he chose a place on the borders of 11Asogh1    17:9 | Shirim, which he circled with a wide granite wall in the 11Asogh1    17:9 | wall in the form of a square, spending a lot of 11Asogh1    17:9 | form of a square, spending a lot of money on this 11Asogh1    17:12 | the same year - in [451 = 1002], leaving a good name behind them 11Asogh1    17:14 | to monasticism and settled in a monastery called Trin-vank, where 11Asogh1    18:1 | King Smbat, having sent him a tribute (required by him) along 11Asogh1    19:3 | of the believers, named Sargis, a man of noble birth, at 11Asogh1    19:3 | sight of this, jumped on a horse and set off in 11Asogh1    19:4 | The Her elder sent Ablhaj ( a messenger) to the Amir of 11Asogh1    19:4 | the Amir of Aterpatakan with a promise to cede the city 11Asogh1    19:6 | Gathering a horde of Persian-barbarians; he 11Asogh1    19:7 | the left; he himself, with a ( third) and larger detachment, (intentioned 11Asogh1    19:7 | country: in this way not a single Christian would escape death 11Asogh1    20:1 | At a time when King Bardas was 11Asogh1    20:2 | As a result, he transferred many (Armenians 11Asogh1    20:6 | Sebasteia, through the ringing of a bell (to gather for prayer 11Asogh1    21:0 | About what a terrible death the Metropolitan of 11Asogh1    21:3 | metropolitan as an adulterer and a deceiver; the kings of Sebasteiaia 11Asogh1    21:4 | of guards to Macedonia for a war against the Sebasteia. Taking 11Asogh1    21:4 | to the king of Sebasteia, a eunuch, and, like brave men 11Asogh1    21:5 | whole Sebasteia country, rebelled with a cruel war against the Greek 11Asogh1    22:0 | Greek king Basil went on a campaign to the land of 11Asogh1    22:2 | He went with a dense military force and a 11Asogh1    22:2 | a dense military force and a vast camp occupied the very 11Asogh1    23:1 | this land, Basil’s army suffered a defeat 11Asogh1    23:3 | with weapons, clothes and horses. A large crowd of city residents 11Asogh1    23:4 | Melitene, (distant) from Babylon at a distance of [31] days of the 11Asogh1    24:5 | having set aside in [435=986], began a war at the head of 11Asogh1    24:6 | the royal city, he built a fortress, appointing Delphinas as magistros 11Asogh1    24:6 | magistros in it, giving him a guard army and ordering him 11Asogh1    24:7 | the (Constantinople) harbor, having concluded a peace treaty with King Basil 11Asogh1    25:3 | for this was to be a signal - he ordered the trumpets 11Asogh1    25:4 | Here King Bardas himself died a cruel death 11Asogh1    26:0 | About the appearance of a star; about the earthquake in 11Asogh1    26:1 | western country, extending from there a spear-like light to the 11Asogh1    26:2 | A short time later, a terrible 11Asogh1    26:2 | A short time later, a terrible earthquake overtook all of 11Asogh1    26:2 | overtook all of Greece, as a result of which many cities 11Asogh1    26:2 | sea between them came into a terrible vibration. In the royal 11Asogh1    26:4 | An Armenian architect, a mason Trdat, happened there (at 11Asogh1    26:4 | with surprising consideration, drew up a plan, having prepared a model 11Asogh1    26:4 | up a plan, having prepared a model of the building, on 11Asogh1    26:4 | cathedral, upon renewal, appeared in a more elegant form than before 11Asogh1    27:1 | A few years before that, the 11Asogh1    27:4 | Gurgen, at the head of a large army from the land 11Asogh1    27:6 | Javaxats district and camped in a village called Dlivek. (There was 11Asogh1    27:7 | ask for peace and concluded a friendly alliance among themselves 11Asogh1    27:8 | the Armenian king Smbat as a token of gratitude for the 11Asogh1    28:3 | of Ani, the king had a store where hay and straw 11Asogh1    28:4 | He went out to bring a brazier of coals for the 11Asogh1    28:6 | to bury the body of a Christian and buried him according 11Asogh1    28:7 | ordered the charred body of a Christian to be dug out 11Asogh1    28:8 | eaten by dogs. At such a sight, they could not refrain 11Asogh1    28:9 | the Christian law. Having become a perjurer, (Smbat) sent Armenian troops 11Asogh1    28:10 | Finally, thirdly, he committed a villainy more terrible than (the 11Asogh1    28:10 | but then he himself suffered a burning disease of fever, from 11Asogh1    28:11 | After that, for many days, a woman told a dream in 11Asogh1    28:11 | many days, a woman told a dream in the city that 11Asogh1    28:11 | the king was lying in a grave, lulled by some kind 11Asogh1    28:13 | to all (people) He gives a certain part of the rewards 11Asogh1    29:2 | He took possession of a greater number of fortresses and 11Asogh1    29:3 | Gagik was a man of insight, knowledgeable in 11Asogh1    29:5 | Smbat, with high arches and a dome in the form of 11Asogh1    29:5 | dome in the form of a heavenly vault. She provided her 11Asogh1    29:5 | city of Ani burned like a vault of heaven 11Asogh1    29:7 | He was a handsome and slender young man 11Asogh1    29:9 | part of his army with a sword, and drowned the other 11Asogh1    29:11 | and he, forced to lead a wandering life, died a terrible 11Asogh1    29:11 | lead a wandering life, died a terrible death, and with him 11Asogh1    29:12 | Lord perish without leaving even a trace 11Asogh1    30:2 | migrated from this world at a very old age and was 11Asogh1    31:2 | was devoted to God from a very young age, brought up 11Asogh1    31:2 | raised by his uncle (paternal), a virtuous and tireless vinedresser of 11Asogh1    31:4 | Gegham district, he gave Sargis a place of residence in a 11Asogh1    31:4 | a place of residence in a monastery, which, due to the 11Asogh1    31:8 | not stop giving alms with a generous hand; he spent day 11Asogh1    32:3 | an unexpected attack on them; A young man Ashot, the son 11Asogh1    33:2 | land and locked him in a dungeon in some kind of 11Asogh1    34:1 | in Babylon, named Azaz, sent a large army to the city 11Asogh1    34:2 | out to meet him with a small detachment and, not being 11Asogh1    34:3 | The enemy, having robbed a few places, returned to Egypt 11Asogh1    34:8 | of their districts and built a city on the shores of 11Asogh1    35:1 | was an earthquake, but to a stronger degree in the Fourth 11Asogh1    36:2 | son of Nabopollasar surrounded with a wall in the course of 11Asogh1    36:2 | years and which now, with a change of place, at a 11Asogh1    36:2 | a change of place, at a distance from the former city 11Asogh1    36:2 | precious stones. (In this Babylon) a palace has now been built 11Asogh1    36:3 | out against him, gave him a battle and, having won, put 11Asogh1    36:4 | hard bows, pointed spears and a sword 11Asogh1    37:1 | A few years earlier, the Amir 11Asogh1    37:1 | and Nprkert, Bat, died in a battle with the desert Arabians 11Asogh1    37:3 | to David the kouropalates with a proposal to return the city 11Asogh1    37:4 | The envoys, having received a refusal, began to gather a 11Asogh1    37:4 | a refusal, began to gather a large army and, together with 11Asogh1    37:4 | the Ayrarat province and occupied) a village called Kosteank 11Asogh1    37:5 | the Bagrewand district and formed a huge camp in the city 11Asogh1    38:1 | city, “because (he said) that a large embassy is expected from 11Asogh1    38:2 | they wanted), so that not a single Arab remained in Nprkert 11Asogh1    38:4 | Amir, who was pierced with a spear and killed at the 11Asogh1    39:4 | in the same way.” As a result of this, the wrath 11Asogh1    39:5 | son Mruan, his brother, also a nephew (by sister) Bat, became 11Asogh1    39:5 | Amida, at the head of a small detachment, went to the 11Asogh1    39:7 | one from the other without a fight 11Asogh1    39:8 | began to pursue them, inflicting a severe defeat on them and 11Asogh1    40:3 | the limits of Her, with a huge horde and a large 11Asogh1    40:3 | with a huge horde and a large camp, he passed through 11Asogh1    40:10 | For a long time, they remained in 11Asogh1    40:10 | where their camp stood, fearing a numerous Persian army. They only 11Asogh1    40:11 | The kings with a generous hand distributed alms to 11Asogh1    40:12 | battle. - Having lined up on a vast field in many rows 11Asogh1    40:14 | They shouted for a fight, inviting them to march 11Asogh1    40:16 | sent ambassadors to them (with a proposal): “Willingly or not, you 11Asogh1    40:17 | remaining in their camp. Only a few people went down to 11Asogh1    40:20 | and seniority, like lions with a roar, they rushed at the 11Asogh1    40:20 | camp of the Persians, like a forest standing before them 11Asogh1    40:24 | enemies) with extraordinary force, like a blow, cut the (enemy) rider 11Asogh1    40:25 | dead. It was something like a fire that embraced the forest 11Asogh1    40:28 | followed in his footsteps, inflicting a severe defeat on them, betraying 11Asogh1    41:2 | bones (of the fallen), dig a hole, bury them in one 11Asogh1    41:2 | in one place and build a church over them 11Asogh1    42:1 | far, and therefore, instead of a panegyric, I will limit myself 11Asogh1    42:1 | I will limit myself to a brief mention 11Asogh1    42:5 | Since he had neither a son nor a brother who 11Asogh1    42:5 | had neither a son nor a brother who could inherit the 11Asogh1    42:6 | his flock to prayer) with a blow on the board, which 11Asogh1    42:8 | The Amir of Nprkert, a nephew (by sister) of Bata 11Asogh1    42:8 | on him the dignity of a master and ordering the army 11Asogh1    42:9 | of Iberia. Basil, having made a magnificent reception to the Abkhazian 11Asogh1    42:9 | granted him the dignity of a kouropalates, and his father a 11Asogh1    42:9 | a kouropalates, and his father a master, and let him go 11Asogh1    42:10 | day of the latter’s departure, a violent fight took place in 11Asogh1    42:11 | infantry detachment of the Ruses, a warrior was carrying hay for 11Asogh1    42:15 | with their arrival, gave them a royal reception and, having presented 11Asogh1    42:15 | horses, mules, rich clothes and a lot of gold, let each 11Asogh1    42:16 | Bagrewand, where he camped on a plain near the city of 11Asogh1    42:18 | As a result, Gagik ordered his son 11Asogh1    43:1 | of Iberia, considering for himself a humiliation of the dignity of 11Asogh1    43:1 | him by King Basil, as a man by nature limited, repudiated 11Asogh1    43:3 | chronology. Both (enemy) sides spent a whole year in these places 11Asogh1    43:5 | wooded mountain of Mecrach, in a village called Surb-Astuatzatzin (St 11Asogh1    44:4 | Bishop Sargis approved a peace treaty, as a result 11Asogh1    44:4 | approved a peace treaty, as a result of which David had 11Asogh1    44:4 | in relation to Gagik as a son to his father, and 11Asogh1    44:4 | take care of him like a father 11Asogh1    46:0 | the city of Ani of a large church in the name 11Asogh1    46:1 | the Armenian king Gagik had a good idea on the model 11Asogh1    46:1 | idea on the model of a vast church in the name 11Asogh1    46:1 | collapsed in ruins, to build a church of the same size 11Asogh1    46:2 | entrances, and completed it with a marvelous dome like a high 11Asogh1    46:2 | with a marvelous dome like a high vault of heaven 11Asogh1    48:5 | Sargis), not wanting to be a disobedient, I took on the 11Asogh1    48:6 | rewards each of them in a righteous judgment 11Asogh1    48:7 | may be worthy to sing a hymn of praise three hypostatic 12Last1    1:7 | settled in the land, migrated a second time, in their exile 12Last1    1:11 | Dawit’ the Curopalate [990-1000] was a mighty man, a builder of 12Last1    1:11 | Curopalate [990-1000] was a mighty man, a builder of the world, very 12Last1    1:11 | of the world, very honorable, a lover of the poor, indeed 12Last1    1:12 | his reign, came forth with a large army, and reached the 12Last1    1:22 | districts and cities which for a long time following the commencement 12Last1    1:23 | who had held the land, ( a man) victorious in warfare, had 12Last1    1:24 | For “ A kingdom divided against itself cannot 12Last1    1:26 | Lo, (they were) a wicked and merciless people, a 12Last1    1:26 | a wicked and merciless people, a hard-hearted, assaulting people. This 12Last1    1:26 | before them, but after them, a desolate wilderness” [Joel II. 3]. We have said 12Last1    1:27 | of the Curopalate’s portion as a gift, and be prince solely 12Last1    1:28 | in his youth, he wrote a contrary reply: “I shall not 12Last1    2:0 | Gurgen, from the Bagratid clan, a man mighty and successful in 12Last1    2:3 | monastery; Step’annos Taronac’i, who wrote a history of the world in 12Last1    2:3 | history of the world in a marvellous style, beginning with the 12Last1    2:4 | was nicknamed Kozern, who wrote a book on the faith; and 12Last1    2:6 | Now king Gagik reigned for a long time and died in 12Last1    2:6 | old age, being worthy of a fine remembrance. (Gagik’s) sons, Smbat 12Last1    2:9 | and he slept unconcernedly. Now a certain one of the princes 12Last1    2:10 | angered and enraged he sent a force after (Smbat). They came 12Last1    2:10 | Smbat) was unable to mount a horse 12Last1    2:16 | the emperor (of Byzantium) sent a certain Nicomedian prince who came 12Last1    2:16 | prince who came and placed a capitation tax (mardahark) on the 12Last1    2:16 | on the country, and, assembling a multitude of men, began reconstructing 12Last1    2:17 | came to the East with a large army 12Last1    2:18 | to him and submit. For a certain bishop of Georgian nationality 12Last1    2:20 | that the land remain in a flourishing state 12Last1    2:22 | goods, but not to injure a single person 12Last1    2:23 | called Paghakac’is, and clashed with a frightful roar 12Last1    2:24 | just as the rapids of a river strike against a rock 12Last1    2:24 | of a river strike against a rock, so did the Byzantine 12Last1    2:25 | because his horse fell into a swamp, and was unable to 12Last1    2:26 | the land, commanding them with a wrathful order not to spare 12Last1    2:27 | It was a pitiful scene there and one 12Last1    2:28 | I lament our misfortunes in a fitting way? (This task belongs 12Last1    2:32 | sick or to go to a place of pilgrimage, now bare 12Last1    2:34 | cultivated country devoid of people, a devastated wasteland, until the onset 12Last1    2:35 | befell them, whether it was a fitting lesson for the excessive 12Last1    2:39 | destruction of Armenia occurred (through) a written letter. For Yovhannes had 12Last1    2:39 | the patriarch: “Give the emperor a written will so that after 12Last1    3:0 | How the Emperor Turned Back a Second Time on the Land 12Last1    3:3 | army on the vast plain. A countless multitude of people were 12Last1    3:5 | went and secured himself into a certain strong fortress called Mazdat 12Last1    3:5 | not know whether this is a divine law—that servants must 12Last1    3:8 | prolonged, (but was) rather like a structure built on sand which 12Last1    3:8 | ruin from the blows of a flood. For Dawit’, who was 12Last1    3:9 | them. But then suddenly, as a person awakening from sleep, or 12Last1    3:9 | awakening from sleep, or as a mighty man coming to himself 12Last1    3:11 | ordered it raised aloft on a pole in view of the 12Last1    3:12 | the place called Salk’ora, dug a deep trench around the army 12Last1    3:12 | trench around the army as a barricade, and remained there for 12Last1    3:12 | barricade, and remained there for a month or longer 12Last1    4:1 | of Vagharshakert, whom we recalled a little earlier, who went and 12Last1    4:2 | But scarcely had (Zak’aria) gone a day’s journey when messengers came 12Last1    4:3 | I come to you as a fugitive.” But he commanded those 12Last1    4:4 | encamped or secured themselves with a rampart, he attempted the following 12Last1    4:5 | troops surrounded them and killed a countless multitude 12Last1    4:6 | and that everyone who brought a head would be given one 12Last1    4:7 | give me your son as a hostage, and there will be 12Last1    4:9 | was the time for (such a downfall), since winter had arrived 12Last1    4:14 | ordered his attendants: “Bring me a horse!” Getting out of bed 12Last1    4:16 | While he was dying a certain marvelous sign appeared in 12Last1    4:16 | he was breathing his last, a lightning bolt of fire split 12Last1    5:0 | Constantine [VIII, 1025-1028] ruled. Because he was a peace-loving and generous (man 12Last1    5:0 | great Basil. Now there was a certain brave and war-loving 12Last1    5:1 | the emperor’s death, (Komianos) devised a bad plan, to become an 12Last1    5:1 | placed them in prison in a fortress, and then informed the 12Last1    5:3 | emperor sent to the East a certain eunuch named Nikit, who 12Last1    6:0 | manly feats of bravery, taken a wife and raised a son 12Last1    6:0 | taken a wife and raised a son to be heir to 12Last1    6:1 | he too did not have a son, rather, he had two 12Last1    6:2 | Sew (Black) where he saw a multitude of monks and cenobites 12Last1    6:2 | dress), they were satisfied with a wrapping or jacket of goat 12Last1    6:6 | The emperor was just such a fool. He did not think 12Last1    6:6 | under their sway. Instead, with a capricious order he wanted to 12Last1    7:2 | this, he wrote (to Salamay) a document of consent, making him 12Last1    7:3 | the night and hurried to a nearby city where they informed 12Last1    7:3 | an order was given and a multitude of troops assembled at 12Last1    7:4 | provided with vessels suitable for a temple of the Lord, and 12Last1    8:0 | this matter, he commanded that a golden pool be filled with 12Last1    9:1 | to the royal clan, such a one is crockery. This (non 12Last1    9:1 | he have the authority of a prominent officer (of the army 12Last1    9:1 | had lusted after him with a prostitute’s diseased passion, and had 12Last1    9:3 | of his brothers he made a magister giving him Thessalonica, and 12Last1    9:3 | the third brother, who was a eunuch and a monk named 12Last1    9:3 | who was a eunuch and a monk named Orht’anorhos, (Michael) set 12Last1    9:3 | city of Constantinople, making him a sinklitos) and entrusting him with 12Last1    9:4 | himself was wickedly afflicted by a dew, even while he went 12Last1    9:4 | city of the Thessalonians to a certain woman witch, giving himself 12Last1    9:4 | time of Basil they say, a youth had done (similar) things 12Last1    9:4 | similar) things by means of a witch 12Last1    9:5 | And they say that through a demon of prostitution he had 12Last1    9:6 | During (Michael’s) reign [1034-1041], a great destruction of the Byzantine 12Last1    9:6 | The district chief of Vaspurakan, a certain Kawasilas, came (against the 12Last1    9:7 | the troops and went to a very distant place called Arcak 12Last1    9:7 | the city, investing it with a rampart. The Byzantine troops, benumbed 12Last1    9:9 | En route, at a lodging-place, since (the Persians 12Last1    9:9 | ground be dug down to a depth of the human body 12Last1    9:11 | during the month Arac’, on a Friday evening, in the year 12Last1    9:11 | this narration is leading to ( a description) of them. With our 12Last1    9:12 | creator, thinking Him to be a man. A man named Ananias 12Last1    9:12 | Him to be a man. A man named Ananias stood in 12Last1    9:12 | crying out this lament in a loud voice: “Alas Jerusalem, woe 12Last1    9:13 | Likewise, here in our times, a man similar to him appeared 12Last1    9:13 | the (East), and saying in a loud voice day and night 12Last1    9:15 | to send the queen to a distant island in exile, so 12Last1    9:19 | who yesterday was seated on a golden throne giving out orders 12Last1    9:19 | world, today, blinded, sat on a chair of futility and insult 12Last1    10:0 | roaring in her den for a companion. For she was greatly 12Last1    10:2 | sway in the western part, a brave and renowned man rebelled 12Last1    10:4 | battle, without having fought anyone: a powerful angel took his soul 12Last1    10:4 | righteousness in the earth” [I. Kings 2.10 and Jeremiah 9.23-24]. Such ( a man) truly is worthy of 12Last1    10:4 | great glories and praise, and a memory of him will endure 12Last1    10:5 | Such a one was the great David 12Last1    10:5 | giant, crushing his head with a jawbone, laying him flat on 12Last1    10:6 | drop, sparing his persecutor as a benevolent act, and angrily replying 12Last1    10:6 | and note: “I have found a man after my heart who 12Last1    10:9 | He was not speaking about a prince, but about princeship, that 12Last1    10:11 | David confessed to God in a Psalm: “You knew of my 12Last1    10:11 | wrote to the Hebrews in a similar vein: “And before Him 12Last1    10:14 | inheritances and became wanderers in a foreign country; thereupon districts were 12Last1    10:17 | settled around the summit of a mountain which blocks and covers 12Last1    10:19 | been adorned and embellished like a new bride wearing a crown 12Last1    10:19 | like a new bride wearing a crown of glory, has now 12Last1    10:19 | of glory, has now become a pitiful spectacle, one worthy of 12Last1    10:19 | adornments, covered with dust, and a perching place for crows. A 12Last1    10:19 | a perching place for crows. A description of all of this 12Last1    10:20 | Those who went out found a certain elder, named Kiwrakos, who 12Last1    10:21 | saw him, he gave him a letter regarding the land of 12Last1    10:23 | it were his own inheritance. A certain one of the principal 12Last1    10:24 | Now Vahram Pahlaw, a man mighty, renowned, and sublimely 12Last1    10:25 | once again, (Sargis) thought up a futile scheme; to give whatever 12Last1    10:25 | to them. Now Gagik with a few men went amidst the 12Last1    10:26 | Saul, he was requited with a life more bitter than death 12Last1    10:27 | my composition. For it is a bitter narration, worthy of copious 12Last1    10:28 | land appeared to travelers as a paradise with vegetation dense, green 12Last1    10:31 | in resplendent clothing and in a crown adorned with pearls, capturing 12Last1    10:33 | fallen from honor, sits like a captive in a distant place 12Last1    10:33 | sits like a captive in a distant place. Similarly, the patriarchal 12Last1    10:33 | displays the sad face of a new bride, newly widowed. The 12Last1    10:33 | The cavalry wanders about without a lord, some in Persia, some 12Last1    10:36 | that sale which we recalled a while earlier. It seems to 12Last1    10:38 | its towers, making of it a place for passersby to trample 12Last1    10:39 | to you and shall write a document giving you your land 12Last1    10:40 | of immaturity, or because of a timid nature, but (in any 12Last1    10:41 | went to the Greeks on a one-way journey, like a 12Last1    10:41 | a one-way journey, like a fish caught on the line 12Last1    10:41 | caught on the line, or a bird ensnared in a trap 12Last1    10:41 | or a bird ensnared in a trap. Now when the (Byzantine 12Last1    10:42 | before the emperor. (Grigor) was a sagacious man, so learned in 12Last1    10:42 | the dignity of magister and a place to dwell including villages 12Last1    10:42 | in writing and stamped with a golden seal, and (the territory 12Last1    10:46 | Now there was a certain prince named Asit who 12Last1    10:47 | of our (Armenian) calendar [1044] when a certain Kamenas replaced his authority 12Last1    10:48 | had come, (Petros) together with a vast multitude, descended to the 12Last1    10:48 | oil (chrism) upon the waters, a Tachik man came forth from 12Last1    10:49 | neophyte and the water. However, a fragment of glass seriously wounded 12Last1    10:50 | had been taken there by a certain eunuch who held sway 12Last1    11:2 | waves be stayed” [Joel 38.11] threw up a thick fog before them and 12Last1    11:3 | upon us by means of a foreign people, for we had 12Last1    11:3 | us: first requiting us with a deserved vengeance, then His anger 12Last1    11:4 | Just as the hand performs a complete work with ten fingers 12Last1    11:5 | and closed their road with a fog, and blocked the march 12Last1    11:7 | forgot about this. Nor did a knowledge of Him dawn in 12Last1    11:12 | the young Jeremiah gave in a golden goblet as a drink 12Last1    11:12 | in a golden goblet as a drink to kings, nations, cities 12Last1    11:15 | the next year, they assembled a countless host of troops of 12Last1    11:16 | It is a history for us to lament 12Last1    11:16 | of the prophet—and he a foreigner who had entered their 12Last1    11:17 | our (account), when not merely a threat but the actual chastisement 12Last1    11:17 | tormented and destroyed, we became a spectacle for the world (to 12Last1    11:18 | but mercy did not find a way into their hearts 12Last1    11:23 | country before them was like a lush garden full of fruit 12Last1    11:23 | for it was there that a countless multitude of fugitives had 12Last1    11:24 | One could observe there a pitiful spectacle, and one worthy 12Last1    11:24 | who had gone up to a cave were crushed to death 12Last1    11:24 | of wood-shavings (left) by a wood-cutter, filling the valley 12Last1    11:27 | But they left behind them a scene more pitiful and lamentable 12Last1    11:32 | is impossible to call you a mountain. Rather, you were a 12Last1    11:32 | a mountain. Rather, you were a mud pit in which the 12Last1    11:33 | were not, like mount Sinai, a medium through which Moses spoke 12Last1    11:36 | energies to writing in such a way that I move all 12Last1    12:0 | I would write about) such a city (as Arcn), charming and 12Last1    12:0 | the lands. It was like a city perched upon a mountain 12Last1    12:0 | like a city perched upon a mountain, with both sea and 12Last1    12:1 | when it was crowned with a plentitude of good things, and 12Last1    12:1 | would wish. Then it resembled a newly-wed woman who, with 12Last1    12:3 | peoples. Our city was like a precious gem shimmering with resplendent 12Last1    12:9 | of it. For it turns a human into a dew and 12Last1    12:9 | it turns a human into a dew and subjects (humans) to 12Last1    12:11 | mock them. In place of a golden belt there will be 12Last1    12:11 | of rope, and instead of a rich robe, a girdling of 12Last1    12:11 | instead of a rich robe, a girdling of sackcloth” [Isaiah 3.24], for when 12Last1    12:18 | and like reapers (working) in a field, they reaped with their 12Last1    12:19 | burned them down, considering this a benevolent act, just as the 12Last1    12:21 | One could see there a pitiful and terrifying spectacle in 12Last1    13:4 | diseased Saul who ran to a wizard, or the Jews who 12Last1    13:4 | camels and took them to a people from whom there was 12Last1    13:5 | with great boasting, that merely a jawbone was sufficient to smash 12Last1    13:6 | cutting (Liparit’s) horse’s sinews with a sword and taking (Liparit) himself 12Last1    13:8 | The entire country was like a field ready for reaping; following 12Last1    13:9 | Caliph as though (he were) a great treasure, more pleasing to 12Last1    14:0 | that (Petros) be honored with a generous stipend. However, he kept 12Last1    14:1 | Sebastupolis. (Atom) gave him as a dwelling-place the retreat of 12Last1    14:2 | him. For Petros had been a great lover of treasure, and 12Last1    14:4 | arguing that) “What was not ( a practice) before my own time 12Last1    14:5 | two Byzantines came forward, one a prince, the other a monk 12Last1    14:5 | one a prince, the other a monk. I do not know 12Last1    14:6 | without the tax, giving him a written document sealed with (the 12Last1    15:0 | For a long time this city (Kars 12Last1    15:2 | Because the city was without a night-watch, they entered. Putting 12Last1    15:2 | work, they mercilessly killed everybody, a history meriting much lamentation. It 12Last1    15:3 | There one could have seen a spectacle most pitiable, capable of 12Last1    16:1 | as (easily as) reapers working a field 12Last1    16:8 | am as the Himen youth, a bringer of bad news, but 12Last1    16:10 | of those places, many people, a countless number, had assembled there 12Last1    16:13 | beards adorned their cheeks like a beautiful picture, whose ringlets of 12Last1    16:15 | been crowded with people, like a densely populated city, became an 12Last1    16:18 | There they encountered a brigade of Byzantine troops called 12Last1    16:18 | they were afraid of encountering a large force 12Last1    16:21 | Now they had seized a certain one of the azats 12Last1    16:21 | certain one of the azats, a mighty martial man named T’at’ul 12Last1    16:22 | I will order you made a sacrifice for him.” A few 12Last1    16:22 | made a sacrifice for him.” A few days later, he died 12Last1    16:22 | son was not slain by a weak arm 12Last1    16:23 | had been churned up by a severe wind, with enormous surges 12Last1    16:25 | wisdom, for He struck him a blow, and sent him back 12Last1    16:26 | forever, does not eternally hold a grudge, and does not deal 12Last1    16:26 | accordance with our sins) caused a foolish plan to enter (the 12Last1    16:27 | called Awnik. He observed there a great concourse of people and 12Last1    16:28 | With a few men (the Sultan) ascended 12Last1    16:28 | was completely prepared (to withstand a siege). After observing it for 12Last1    16:29 | the city, since he was a pious man, called upon omnipotent 12Last1    16:31 | fear not, for this is a simple matter for God. As 12Last1    16:34 | consternation and danger, (God) caused a wonderful idea to be implanted 12Last1    16:34 | implanted in the heart of a prince who was one of 12Last1    16:35 | would be fought in such a way, or that at night 12Last1    16:35 | night via such and such a place (the Seljuks) wanted to 12Last1    16:36 | able to turn Balaam into a prophet during Baghak’s day in 12Last1    16:36 | govern the people, and made a dumb beast speak with a 12Last1    16:36 | a dumb beast speak with a prophetic tongue, (or if God 12Last1    16:36 | tongue, (or if God) during a time of famine was able 12Last1    16:38 | of utilizing siege machinery) erected a catapult of his own, and 12Last1    16:38 | when (the Seljuks) would place a rock in the catapult’s sling 12Last1    16:39 | which they themselves called baban— a very frightful thing, which, it 12Last1    16:39 | pull (back) ropes. They placed a rock weighing sixty liters in 12Last1    16:39 | of it they set up a wall of cotton loads and 12Last1    16:40 | was so arranged, they released a rock which violently struck the 12Last1    16:40 | to crumble, and opened up a passageway. When the citizens observed 12Last1    16:41 | our people, for he was a brave man. Coming to the 12Last1    16:42 | At that time a certain general of the Byzantine 12Last1    16:42 | brave-hearted and manly, prepared ( a mixture) of Sulphur and flammable 12Last1    16:42 | flammable oil, put it into a glass vessel, mounted a thoroughbred 12Last1    16:42 | into a glass vessel, mounted a thoroughbred steed, and, protected by 12Last1    16:42 | steed, and, protected by merely a shield, rode out of the 12Last1    16:42 | foreigners’ army, claiming to be a mandator or messenger 12Last1    16:43 | carrying) upon the baban. Instantly a fire ignited, a purplish flame 12Last1    16:43 | baban. Instantly a fire ignited, a purplish flame shot forth, while 12Last1    16:47 | anger and rage, and prepared a furnace the flames of which 12Last1    16:52 | away, and en route encountered a city called Arcke, located in 12Last1    16:52 | Bznunik’ (Lake Van) which had a secure, impregnable fortress near it 12Last1    16:53 | But those bloody beasts found a shallow way through the waters 12Last1    16:53 | this calmed the Sultan’s heart a little, nonetheless, he returned to 12Last1    17:0 | and divine Solomon wrote that “ A just king makes his land 12Last1    17:2 | famished wolves which, chancing upon a flock without a protector, mercilessly 12Last1    17:2 | chancing upon a flock without a protector, mercilessly destroy it. And 12Last1    17:3 | Having led such a ( dissolute) life, (Monomachus) died after 12Last1    17:3 | dissolute) life, (Monomachus) died after a reign of thirteen years [1042-1055], accomplishing 12Last1    17:8 | Awan since (their alphabet) lacks a letter. A brigade of soldiers 12Last1    17:8 | their alphabet) lacks a letter. A brigade of soldiers came (to 12Last1    17:9 | was fatally wounded, and died a few days later 12Last1    17:10 | regrettable, because he was only a lad and exceedingly good looking 12Last1    17:14 | in. Our life was not a real one. As the prophet 12Last1    17:17 | in Byzantium. (It once had) a patriarchate, great and envied by 12Last1    17:18 | Our churches resembled a new bride, adorned with all 12Last1    17:20 | that throne has gone to a foreign land as a slave 12Last1    17:20 | to a foreign land as a slave and a captive 12Last1    17:20 | land as a slave and a captive 12Last1    17:22 | that it would have astonished a prophet? Today it sits ingloriously 12Last1    17:22 | stripped of all beauty, resembling a childless widow, stripped of adornments 12Last1    17:27 | having (our) good deeds as a pledge, and no adversary can 12Last1    18:0 | of Monomachus [D.1055], that lioness with a lion’s frenzy was roaring in 12Last1    18:0 | king. By God’s laws such a one is deserving of the 12Last1    18:1 | said, I am sufficient as a substitute.” When the princes heard 12Last1    18:2 | Sultan as though he were a famished beast, giving him such 12Last1    18:2 | famished beast, giving him such a plethora of gifts that he 12Last1    18:2 | surrounding areas, since he was a very martial man. However, neither 12Last1    18:5 | There was a populous and rich awan in 12Last1    18:6 | to the habitation, they spotted a good deal of fodder for 12Last1    18:8 | and horses, (taking) goods and a small number of useful items 12Last1    18:8 | wreaked on that place? As a result, the entire countryside became 12Last1    18:16 | resembled the handsome face of a person in the flower of 12Last1    18:18 | fountains, and the country, resembling a guardian took on a beautiful 12Last1    18:18 | resembling a guardian took on a beautiful appearance because of them 12Last1    18:19 | we see just the opposite: a country laid waste and empty 12Last1    18:20 | and loud chirpings, which, like a goad would rouse the farmer 12Last1    18:21 | the swallow in agitation fashion a nest to fearlessly raise her 12Last1    18:22 | two, the iron scepter became a broken reed (just as the 12Last1    18:24 | ravenous wolves which, upon encountering a flock unguarded by a shepherd 12Last1    18:24 | encountering a flock unguarded by a shepherd, are not content merely 12Last1    18:24 | hands. They regarded that as a great deed of benevolence 12Last1    18:25 | Iwane, Liparit’s son, (was alive). A dwelling place, the great Erizay 12Last1    18:25 | been given to him as a gift together with the dastakerts 12Last1    18:27 | For a while he attempted take it 12Last1    18:29 | come, had secured himself into a great fortress, at the first 12Last1    18:30 | had come note: “Show us a path of plunder; do not 12Last1    18:30 | way out, (Iwane) gave them a guide from among his own 12Last1    18:31 | country was lordless and without a defender, those satellites of Satan 12Last1    18:33 | city). When day dawned, such a lamentable spectacle of agitation was 12Last1    18:35 | His hand is raised, with a cup of pure wine to 12Last1    18:35 | to make us drunk, in a foul drunkenness 12Last1    18:37 | No longer shall you be a city of refuge, but rather 12Last1    18:37 | Here we have recorded but a few of the diverse misfortunes 12Last1    18:38 | to the Karin district, to a village called Blurs, Since the 12Last1    18:38 | had enclosed the hill with a wall whose foundations they had 12Last1    18:38 | when the infidels came like a raging torrent and struck against 12Last1    18:38 | did not withstand even for a moment, but quickly collapsed. Its 12Last1    18:39 | thought (the city) would be a place of salvation and refuge 12Last1    18:39 | salvation and refuge, it became a pit of ruin. For all 12Last1    18:41 | not after the fashion of a war, but as though they 12Last1    18:41 | slaughtering sheep penned up in a yard. Some (the Seljuks) seized 12Last1    18:42 | They died a double death. More bitter than 12Last1    19:1 | that gloriously fashioned city became a cistern full of blood 12Last1    19:4 | If anyone anywhere or in a secret hiding place had concealed 12Last1    19:5 | left alive to emit even a feeble cry 12Last1    20:3 | Michael, they made him become a monk and set him off 12Last1    21:0 | the scepter of advice is a paternal one, while (the scepter 12Last1    21:2 | betrayed into the hand of a foreign people. Our enemies grew 12Last1    21:7 | There was a double justice in chastising the 12Last1    21:9 | was still flourishing, it resembled a three-year-old heifer in 12Last1    21:10 | the plentitude of bread and a rich existence 12Last1    21:11 | the blessings of Paradise for a day untainted. Such is our 12Last1    21:15 | that had come before, or a new one, I do not 12Last1    21:17 | it at night. There was a brigade of Byzantine cavalrymen guarding 12Last1    21:21 | of life. (The Seljuks) left a remembrance forever of the unbelievable 12Last1    21:23 | run ahead unimpeded, thus opening a path. Then the captives and 12Last1    21:24 | Now this village had a fortress, and for that reason 12Last1    21:24 | they thought that there was a cavalry force within the fortress 12Last1    21:25 | on (one of) them, with a shield before him speaking harsh 12Last1    21:26 | Then a Byzantine army came up from 12Last1    21:28 | built with great labor by a certain Hrahat, one of the 12Last1    21:28 | which had been built in a gorgeous style to the glory 12Last1    22:0 | There was a certain bishop named Yakobos who 12Last1    22:0 | rule, he displayed himself as a virtuous man, wearing a hair 12Last1    22:0 | as a virtuous man, wearing a hair shirt, keeping fasts, and 12Last1    22:2 | But this was all a sham, not the true state 12Last1    22:2 | as the Lord said. In a similar vein the Apostle wrote 12Last1    22:6 | Should (the enemy) be from a people which speaks a foreign 12Last1    22:6 | from a people which speaks a foreign language, it is easy 12Last1    22:8 | fatiguing labor in Xor Virap), a copiously flowing fountain, similar to 12Last1    22:9 | lambs became wolves and caused a carnage of bloodshed 12Last1    22:10 | reposed, when the enemy, finding a way, sowed weeds among the 12Last1    22:13 | falsely-good reputation had grown — ( a renown) which stupid people noised 12Last1    22:14 | with his oratory. On such a foundation he thought he could 12Last1    22:14 | promise to Peter: “You are a rock and upon this rock 12Last1    22:18 | perform mass but three times a year 12Last1    22:21 | and caves, (and who) requested a visitation from the beneficent Lord 12Last1    22:25 | also disposed of things in a very helpful way. (Events) transpired 12Last1    22:26 | There was a certain cleric from the Karin 12Last1    22:26 | district named Esayi, descended from a pious family, who, attracted by 12Last1    22:27 | face with the likeness of a fox, he loudly preached: “Whoever 12Last1    22:28 | concerned over the loss of a soul 12Last1    23:0 | There was a certain adulterous monk named Kuncik 12Last1    23:1 | He had studied with a certain churlish monk who claimed 12Last1    23:2 | diligent servant, gave instruction to a certain woman named Hranoysh who 12Last1    23:2 | named Hranoysh who belonged to a principal and fine line, mistress 12Last1    23:6 | There was a certain prince named Vrverh who 12Last1    23:6 | that he had had constructed a clerical retreat on his patrimonial 12Last1    23:6 | director was known as Andreas, a man greatly renowned in clerical 12Last1    23:11 | For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and 12Last1    23:11 | and drag them off like a calf for slaughter, and she 12Last1    23:11 | will (kill you) just as a goat shot by an arrow 12Last1    23:14 | and which we spoke of a little earlier, namely, Kashe and 12Last1    23:15 | me add to this narration a wondrous account which will strike 12Last1    23:16 | In a section of Paxra mountain which 12Last1    23:16 | named Bazmaghbiwr (Many Fountains) wherein a resplendently stunning Cross had been 12Last1    23:19 | God’s ineffable wisdom, they had a thought. The evening that this 12Last1    23:20 | arrived at the spot with a great multitude. Gathering up the 12Last1    23:21 | branded with the sign of a fox, so that eternally that 12Last1    23:21 | eternally that would serve as a notice to them, clear and 12Last1    23:23 | arrived, the (Byzantine) emperor sent a judge, whose name was Eghia 12Last1    23:25 | informed through God’s providence—immediately a multitude of people assembled in 12Last1    23:25 | record it. They went in a body to the confluence of 12Last1    23:26 | fully. The soldiers, having brought a boat, were hastening to take 12Last1    23:30 | Church) holding in her hands a drum (which is correctness of 12Last1    23:31 | the Lord, for He worked a miracle” [Psalms 97.1], etc. Praying to God 12Last1    23:33 | When day dawned, it was a Sunday. The judge went to 12Last1    23:33 | the bishopric, named P’rris, seeking a just trial and entrusted the 12Last1    23:34 | There is a creature known as the cuttle 12Last1    23:35 | promised that he would become a Roman (Chalcedonian), and, bribing a 12Last1    23:35 | a Roman (Chalcedonian), and, bribing a bishop named Episarhat, he agreed 12Last1    23:39 | aches of his body were a constant reminder of Gehena where 12Last1    24:4 | the sins, while those at a distance learn from them and 12Last1    24:14 | bodies of the slain) became a road. From the countless multitude 12Last1    25:0 | no one has imposed such a task upon us nor demanded 12Last1    25:1 | the capable to undertake (such a task). However, since omission of 12Last1    25:1 | would damage (this history) not a little, we regard it as 12Last1    25:1 | necessary to dispense with such a great event (even if only 12Last1    25:2 | of Persia had taken not a small part of his kingdom 12Last1    25:2 | not to leave to posterity a bad impression of himself 12Last1    25:3 | Halting in Biwt’ania, he assembled a countless host, for yet did 12Last1    25:3 | for yet did he possess a broad and extensive kingdom whose 12Last1    25:4 | Seeing such a multitude of troops assembled in 12Last1    25:5 | numerous troops under commanders along a different road, while he himself 12Last1    25:5 | road, while he himself with a great host travelled East until 12Last1    25:10 | the defeated side, then suddenly a great brigade devoid of piety 12Last1    25:11 | As a result, many soldiers were killed 12Last1    25:12 | after death they would leave a good name of loyal bravery 12Last1    25:13 | dressed and armed himself like a warrior and reached the field 12Last1    25:13 | the field of battle like a streak of lightning 12Last1    25:14 | nor was He for us a horn of salvation and hope 12Last1    25:16 | that world-ruling lord of a great throne—and stood him 12Last1    25:16 | Persia as though he were a frightened, guilty slave, hand-cuffed 12Last1    25:16 | Rather, He pardons us after a little temptation so that we 12Last1    25:16 | looked upon (Diogenes) as upon a beloved brother. And he released 12Last1    25:20 | it on fire, leaving it a desert. Because of such (victories 12Last1    25:22 | And he exalted him as a faithful friend and made an 12Last1    26:2 | course, speedily headed toward earth a shadowless hemisphere, wearing an expansive 12Last1    26:2 | woven of sins committed over a long period 12Last1    26:11 | not believe that we possessed a God in heaven or that 12Last1    26:13 | in any case, still had a ray of hope, the supervision 12Last1    26:14 | we were unable to find a single place of refuge. Rather 12Last1    26:16 | You put our sins in a balance-scale, they will weigh