Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-15


tive peace and comfort which Ardnshcs
had established some generations back.
There had been no fresh conquests and no
great increase OF. wealth during. that ex-
tended cessation of foreign interference;
only slow regathering of scattered
forces, reknitting of old ties, and healing
of old wounds. There had not been even
a sufficient accession Of new strength to
make fairly manly show of resistance
when Trajan. remembering that certain
records in the Capitol dating far back in
Pompey's age, named this Roman Prov
ince, summoned the Arsacid ruler to ap-
pear and receive his crown from the i'm
perial hand.
The descendants Of Ardasncs in humbly
complying, did only what the sovereigns
of Mesopotamia and Assyria stopped to
do ut the same mandate; he had not the
forces to sustain any other course. Thus
the semblance Of prosperous peace was
enabled to so on.
But even Trajan was not immortal: and
when he died, Hadrian. succeeding to the
purple, adopted with it the discreet max
inns of Augustus, which urged the Eu-
pirates as the frontier line of the Empire.
On restoring to Parthia the right to elect
an independent sovereign, he also with
drew the Roman garrisons from Armenia
and freed her from over-lol,iship.
In the course of another century, there
arose Il violent contest between Persia and
her weaker neighbor, springing from the
usurpation of the formers throne by the
Sassanid line. The northern Arsacids
generously but unwisely took up the quar-.
rel for their royal brothers, and the land OF
Haiku was bathed anew in her own blood
The conflict eliminated in the assassina.
ton of ChosrOcs the Great by emissaries
from the neighboring court, and Persia's
heel was for n brief time again set upon
Armenia's neck. Our leading chroniclers
depart from one another regarding dates
just here, wavering all the way from %:
A. ID. to 269 A. ID. Moses of Khorene
lapses into some of his battling but charm
ing anachronisms.
Yet discrepancy of a few years shall
not daunt us in the pursuit of our story
and its main truths. Certain it is that
Persia maintained her supremacy over
Armenia for at least one generation this
time. and zcalously guarded her conquest
making the most of every inch of power
The usurpng overlords erected magnifi
cent buildings ut the expense of the down
tro,Iden ncople and In avery woy ,y,r.
waited oppression Inv insult, Ehnrenia,
Moses tells us with nntriot ;ndiyn,tion
how the satraps destroyed the statue,
Val-arsaces had set up-imagcs of tn,
deified kings, and of sun and moon. Tn,
undying fire of Ormuzd was kindlcd anc
preserved mon an altar erected uno,
Mount Bagavnn.
Such usnrpntion could scarccly las
more than one generation nj this no;nt
When Chosroes was nssassinated. no NON
bcr Of the royal family Ind os,.,n.d az
cent an infant whom n fnithful courtie
conveyed secretly to Rome, The boy
prince. Tiridotps. grow nm ot tho fr;endI,
and distant court. carefully tutorod pndo
the direction of the emperors. and derry
ing from bis exile as Mr. c;hhon ha
| tittingly remarked, "such advantages m
he could never have obtained on TN
throne of Armenia, the early knowledr
| of adversely, Of mankind, ana of the Ro
man discipline
Finally yoIeri,n tool tho f;o,d In ,,o,,o,
against Snnor and Tins tho Arn,on;,,
canse bocamo tho so,,roa Of sbannn ma Al.
aster ia Rome. for Tho nnfnr,urotn a,,
neror u,,s oantnraJ noor E1assa h.,,;,,
done M enoJ tn hid oil, IN, ,,,n,,, H., -,
to his own ,tota IN, snoh Nh,s.,';.,,,,'.,
Ora pginp o,,t \ m;serohia 1aati, N, ;r,' y
tbe Persian court mi onanr;no far -,
than mere chains and mnn;l;, t;n, Il,
one-time emneror u,,, foor mi 49,, "a !,
think of Armcnio,s ayistonne win ,nor
than INDIGNANT regrot
Rut Rome ou;otlv u.tho,o5 s,,.o,,.,,
and set ,riridates now arr;y.a n, g.,
mnnbood within lie NV, L;nrdo,, - w.
his mobiles rallied about him AMI NJ,
and his Scytbi,n borJa ,,o,o h;,,, ;,,nis
mable Aid. In n short sna.o tl,a ~,
king was ro,dv 10 tr,r opar,.; wy Ivy
against Assyr;a and a,,an a. ti,naas, I'm nv
ancient fon thon In III. throa., 81 49,, ~ =,
snrrect;on osain,t s.ashI,. Vi an y
monarch. Nnrses
pna.a :.
-, re, nseh y" i',terest US III the clal
tinad 70 n oaroon ira'u.ss ~ ""s ue'
fror, RI, ri ~ ~ IN .ie eA'reii,
fror, +i,"a, 49, ~, w "a. S,aNe' hh eAl
If nm "r'.r. anu aaa',e ,apn Lor .he leiis,
Gft~ls;v , rnarS I hi'' se, ai'erwaro
i 'A se",S = hlhs'cro"heg, uhcrown'
con,,,ost, ~, a o,,' ,u-".y au"Lns ioreis
Ton how h, hoid han -, nai ioi e.
mt n sunnrior IN d;root. 90 az =.
for hare Iifa 20 M ta,,s, ns Nv , ieei'
nerscrnt;nr with ,;orr ;nto,ora a ane ussui
tbe FIRST montbs 81 Lia - az, ' r,,,'';
ions who had orootoJ ~, 80, ~ =! -
worsb;n ~ tbo -, ,t. nDm anu ',
altar of 0rmnyd Imt v'en VI s,sit u "
lv ossun,;na a., i,;,,,.is 80, ~, ''ieiiil
neonla tbc VOWS ~ H., 90 ~" a,;. i's ei.i'
Inc 81 C,oo,an.. ~, NJ ieision' sei'