199 fllSTORT OF ARMEVIA^
They were urged to this act of severity by the manner in which they had been treated by their s>ervants. Mierses, the pontiff^ having heard ofthis event, left his retirement, immediately went to the irritated chiefs, and taking the babes from their hands, conveyed the latter to a town in the neighbourhood of Ar»hacavan, where heprovided nurses to take care of them. These children were well brought up, and on their attaining maturity, went under the name of Vines ; because^ according to some, they were carried by theif captors from their birth place, in baskets made of vine leaves. According to others, the name had its origin from Vines, the name of the village in which they were brought up. Nierses caused the bodies of the kings of Armenia, which we mentioned before, as having been borne off from the fortress of Ani by the Persian general^ to be restored to the nation, and he interred them in a village named Alzc at the foot of Mount Aragaz. JLD. 375. Intelligence of the destruction of Arshacavaa being brought to Arsaces, he became furious with rage. He forthwith assembled a few Georgian troops, with which he entered Ar- menia» and during a period of twelve months^ wandered about the kingdom seeking rein- forcements. He at length obtained a few Armenian troops^ when he deemed himself
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