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This book of course belongs to the history of Parthian empire, consequences of which involved Persia for a long time after during Sasanid dynasty, and the political use of religion by both Persia & Byzanthium.

Besides the Armenian writers mentioned above, I also owe something to Eusebius, and less to other early Greek and Roman patristic writers. I have of course consulted Herodotus, Xenophon, and Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, Velleius Paterculus, &c, for that portion of the work in which aid could be expected from them. Any other writers to whom I am at all indebted I have mentioned in the footnotes in loco. For dates I have generally depended upon Stephen Palasanean's able and valuable work mentioned above.

It may be asked why I have continued the narrative up to the fall of the Arsacide dynasty in Armenia, instead of pausing at the death of Gregory the Illuminator. The answer is that the Armenians themselves, in the days of which I have written, rightly considered that Gregory's great work remained incomplete until the translation of the Bible into Armenian was finished in A. D. 436, as we learn from Lazarus Pharpetsi, a contemporary historian. I trust the interest of the subject-matter of the narrative will serve to plead my excuse for taking the same view.

In conclusion I have only to express my hope that the manifold defects and shortcomings of this little volume — written during the few hours at night which I could spare from my missionary duties — will be pardoned, and will not be suffered to hinder its usefulness. I may be permitted to add that I agree generally with the views expressed, and still more with the hopes implied, in reference to his nation's future destiny in the following passage from an Armenian writer of the present century.

' From all indications it appears that this very nation has been by Divine Providence chosen as the means of spreading Christianity and civilization in the East. There is no doubt that the circumstance that this Christian population is diffused over a great extent of country — from Morocco to China — and at the same time that all its members are bound to one another by religious ties, has a great historical and universal significance.'

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