1841.] On the Laws and Law-books of the Armenians. 239 



%m***jnq *A fy UM pa. lun-iupliU ^uiumuitn^n j %iu Ll ^\\p- 

 ptufyaLbfiuii (tnunouynpifrfiuu) qdbfyni-uujgjhr lufuh ^p \d-ui- 

 qJfl> h- jWnuMnuuutU pLUtnfytr^nj l^iupt^.^ *p *bnju intrqfiu 

 iJutht-j» L. n.nTiljoo npufeu ^JmEmU •" "p. ♦ 74. Turn Artasires 

 Armeniae terram egregie ornavit, atque in antiquum statum restituit. 

 Arsacidas ab regno et domicilio Araratensi pulsos, in eundem locum 

 reduxit, et eadem eis, quae prius habuerant, stipendia statuit." Lib. 

 ii. Cap. lxxiv. 



Of the Satraps of Armenia. 

 History also tells us, that there were specific laws extant for the 

 guidance of the Satraps of Armenia. Faustus of Byzantium, who wrote 

 an Armenian history in the fourth century, alludes to the existence of 

 certain laws, which seem to have obtained in Armenia only during the 

 reign of Khosrow the Little. " Posterior to this," says Faustus, " the 

 Persians were incessant in waging wars with the king Khosrow. Laws 

 were, in consequence, enacted by the king for the guidance of the 

 Armenian satraps, grandees, chiefs, and lords, whose number Was very 

 considerable, and on whom it was made obligatory to remain near to 

 their royal master, and none of them were permitted to accompany 

 the expedition against the king of Persia. This measure was adopted 

 by Khosrow, from a want of confidence in the sincerity of the attach- 

 ment of the nobles of his court. The terror of the disloyalty of Databi 

 had seized upon his mind, and he apprehended the occurrence of a 

 similar event in his own country." Faustus. Lib. in. Cap. vin. 



Laws enacted during the reign of the Bagratidcs. 



Of the laws enacted during the days of the Bagratian kings, no 



record has been preserved in the annals of the Armenian historians. 



But, from ancient Armenian manuscripts, found at Lemberg or Leopolis, 



a city in Poland, it is ascertained that the Armenians, who emigrated 



in the eleventh century from the thickly populated city of Ani,* and 



other provinces of Armenia to that part of Europe, had carried with 



them the code of laws by which they were guided in their own 



* Ani was a most magnificent and populous city in Armenia towards the close of 

 the tenth century, and contained one thousand and one churches ! See my History of 

 Armenia, vol. n. p. 92. It is nothing now, but a heap of ruins. 



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