Next, at the bidding of Augustus, Artavasdes was set on the throne,
nor was he deposed without disaster to ourselves. Caius
Caesar was then
appointed to restore order in Armenia. He put over the
Armenians Ariobarzanes,
a Mede by birth, whom they willingly accepted, because
of his singularly
handsome person and noble spirit. On the death of
Ariobarzanes through
a fatal accident, they would not endure his son. Having
tried the government
of a woman named Erato and having |