82. This account of the ruin and division of the kingdom of
Armenia is taken from the third book of the Armenian history
of Moses of Chorene. Deficient as he is in every
qualification of a good historian, his local information,
his passions, and his prejudices are strongly expressive of
a native and contemporary. Procopius (de Aedificiis, 1. iii.
c. 1-5) relates the same facts in a very different manner;
but I have extracted the circumstances, the most probable in
themselves and the least inconsistent with Moses of Chorene.