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Rill more probable, after we have difcovered the 
monarch denominated Perozes, or Peroz, and the 
reafon of that name. To what prince therefore, and 
on what occalion, the name, or rather furname, 
Perozes was applied, I am next to inquire. 
Vologeles II. having finifhed his preparations for a 
war with the Romans, in the reign of Antoninus 
Pius, foon after that prince’s death, made an irruption 
(5) into the Greater Armenia. This happened, ac- 
cording to Dio, in the year of Rome 915, or of 
Christ 161. Meeting with little or no oppofition, 
he advanced to Elegia, a city of that kingdom, 
where a Roman army, under the command of 
Severianus, the prefect of Cappadocia, was at that 
time polled. This formidable body he immediately 
attacked, (6) and fo intirely defeated it, that fcarce 
a fingle Roman found means to efcape. So complete 
a vidtory as this muft of courfe have put Vologefes 
in poflefion of the greateft part of Armenia, and 
particularly of the city of Elegia. After fo im- 
portant a conqueft, the Parthian monarch may natu- 
rally enough be fuppofed to have caufed the medals I 
am confidering to have been fhuck, and that in the 
town of Elegia. And that this was really the cafe, 
fotne will perhaps allow deducible from the monogram 
prefen ted to our view on one of thefe coins. Nay, that 
he derived the name, or furname, Peroz, or Perozes, 
itfelf from afuccefsful expedition he undertook againlf 
the Romans, we learn from Mofes Chorenenfis, the 
Armenian hillorian. “ At which time, lays this 
“ writer (7), after the death of Titus the Second, 
(5) Jul. Capitolin. & Lucian, ubi fup. 
(6) Dio, lib. LXXI. p. 802. B. 
(7) Mol*. Chorenenf. Hljhr . Ar/neniac. lib. II. cap. LXI. 
p. 181. Lond. 1736. 
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