87. Valarsaces was appointed king of Armenia by his brother
the Parthian monarch, immediately after the defeat of
Antiochus Sidetes (Moses Choren. l. ii. c. 2, p. 85), one
hundred and thirty years before Christ. Without depending on
the various and contradictory periods of the reigns of the
last kings, we may be assured that the ruin of the Armenian
kingdom happened after the council of Chalcedon, A.D. 431
(1. iii. c. 61, p. 312); and under Varanes, or Bahram, king
of Persia (1. iii. c. 64, p. 317), who reigned from A.D. 420
to 440. See Assemanni, Bibliot. Oriental. tom. iii. p. 396.