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increase and multiply, and after the lapse of several years, the number 

 of their offspring became very considerable, so much so, that an appeal 

 was made by them to Tiran the First, touching the insufficiency of 

 the provinces allotted for their habitation, to contain such an in- 

 creased and increasing number of inhabitants. Moses of Chorene says : 

 " \^t- Irlfb-uij^ wml %um l£uhifuiut^.njlt fit-py ujna-ft'u \\p- 

 ^smbntfulruiq ftp f±pu *A hnnifiuliu ^^UMytntrupti J tuuhru ♦ 

 pUtytu p'kiuLhr tu Jha no-iun-ufba-nL-fd-hilbu tut 'utrn £- ^ 

 ouMUt/ft p-iuntTiuauijR ♦ Ll. Imum ^puMiJuMjip nifuMuq ^nunguiht^ 

 Irnffi-iui 1p iL.uML.UMrA \^tjjini/uih II. \^n.pL.lrnuM € utij ♦ p u h 

 unquM ujn.UML.tri Llu fxnnno Lumiitumm umml. uMpouMjp j /cn£" 

 UMtz.uML.tr^tL.itju utrnt^ Jha } "tffut ni -^T ur t t -l l P ly^r Si 1 " 



niMMU j LUJM^LUUUMUMUlltUMl iSlShtt. F1< UMJt^O'UMn.UMUtL.nt-^- L 



intuM unquM | pLUMiu tjnp ntAaph ^uMt-UMUiup uipn^trtifilM- 



JPtTUMUU ♦ Q n P PLUMO-UMUtrUMM pUUI l/lMJ prL.uMpd' nt-h nUIUML. 



umumLumu S~ um rLUMUiL.nL-[<t~puu pSUujfpinujLpj ^^UMjuitTUpn ♦ 



duMuu npnj p.uMnnL.d\> */r unnuMUt^ trLtruM/ ^p n. an l.lu nfu 



QnfcnL^tMifi L. \^n.tjL.lrpuMutij \ " J&. ♦ 59. " Caeteriim brevi 

 tempore interjecto ad eum gens sua Arsacidarum venit, quae Has- 

 tenios tractus havitavit, dicens, " profer nobis haereditatis fines, 

 quae arctae sunt, cum simus admodum multiplicati." Ille vero eorum 

 nonnullos in Aluotam et Arberaniam provincias migrare jussit ; 

 ciimque ii ad regem acrius clamarent, regionem earn ipsos nimis 

 coarctare, Tiranus, nihil annuens, Edicto sanxit daturum se eis hae- 

 reditatem aliam nullam ; quam tenebant, aequaliter inter se divi- 

 derent. Quam cum pro hominum numero partiti essent, incolis minime 

 sufficere Hastenia reperta est, ac propterea multi eorum in provincias 

 Aluotam et Arberaniam commigrarunt." Lib 11. Cap. lix. — Imme- 

 diately after the death of Khosrow the Great, when Ardashir, king of 

 Persia, made an aggression on Armenia and conquered the country, he 

 extended his royal munificence and support to these descendants of the 

 Armenian kings. For the said venerated historian says : " t* u i 

 Tj^ptMiuM^nfi n-br rthraljUMUiJ-u jiupn.uMph'UMM^ qut^uutp^ii 



