236 On the Laws and Law-boohs of the Armenians. [No. 111. 



given a code of laws for the guidance of the Armenians. To have 

 orally delivered these laws, without committing them to writing, was 

 certainly unbecoming the enlightened and civilised reign of Valarsaces. 

 Eut, of all the laws enacted by this king, one is repeatedly quoted by 

 Moses of Chorene, which shall be mentioned below. 



Laws enacted during the reign of the Arsacidce, first by Valarsaces 

 the Parthian^ and afterwards by others. 



In the foregoing chapter Moses Chorenensis writes thus about 



Valarsaces : " \^i~ jpuiuali p.uinnL.iT nuiil^p m-umh-pu , 



niuimjuiT? ifuiplfuii- n< uitRjuh-gnuu urn. [n.p ^m^fi \Ppp~" 

 p.pi ( nup pHiui^p juyLJ-u/iT \*UjpU Huiquip^^ * ) 

 Juiuu npnj u*n-uijpfc qlinuui p%ui^hrj^ ^ft tjnndhfbu X^ui^ 

 in trilby , L. } [i InpL *unp[fu uui^duhibruiij np £- uipmui^pnj 

 §uipounj ♦ */r linuui p-nqptif tjjfliu uiJI/uujju ^ufjb- 

 n,hrp& iiuulrpiL.uih'nif ""^fig uin-ufuZfuju , L. n-riTSLuin 

 LuipaArpia iuipx±ntJbni-uui j II. Jhuiju qui itlumO \hi npn.thi 

 np fyn<fc-p U/ ? 25 x# ^ * u l UM ^b' UMn - fr*-j? *f* ^wifuip p-ui- 

 a.uii-ntini.fj'fruni ; \^*- btijIl. uiju iuijuiT ^truig- Ll inn. 

 juMupuj op^hjp >fi Jh£_ \\p 2 u'4m- € uk-ui 3 1 JJinj npn_i.nj 

 BLUUihtri f^ tnL - utn ^ u Ur 1 tpn^uurunpnu fJiUtrf^ jd } uia.uii.n- 

 pnuprtrurtfu * II. uiii nt-uuihrpuiu Ll nLuintrpuin ojUuii 'A 

 tinnuufUu ^uipvilrhptj luinnpu O^usn.inha.ni.jd'pifli J 

 " Caeterum quum multos filios habere t, parum utile esse ratus, ut cuncti 

 ad Nisibim manerent, in provinciam eos Hastensem dimisit, et ad 

 Zoram, quae fines ejus contingit, trans Taronem sitam ; illisque uni- 

 versa ea oppida attribuit et stipendia insuper de gaza regia singulis 

 statuit ; at ex filiis suis, natu solum maximum, Arsaces ei nomen 

 erat, imperio destinatum. Deinceps inde consuetudo Arsacidarum 

 fiuit, ut unus de filiis cum rege habitaret, regni successor futurus, 

 cseterique filii ac filiae in regionem Hastensem ad possessiones 

 suas abirent." Artavazd the First, moreover, conferred on the Ar- 

 menian princes, possession of the provinces of Aliovit and Arberany. 



