Agathangelus pp. 164–66.
[42] St. Martin 1: appendix.
Elisée Vartabed, Histoire de Vartan. Langlois 2:190–91.
[43] Ibid. p. 195.
[44] Lidgett, An Ancient People.
The detailed events of this struggle against the Persians are told in the Histoire de Vartan et de la Guerre des Arméniens, by Elisée Vartabed who belonged to the second order of translators and served under General Vartan during the war, the history of which he narrates. After the sad ending of the series of dramatic incidents that made up this struggle for religious freedom, Elisée sought solitude and lived on herbs and roots in a mountainside cave which came to be known as the “cave of Elisée.” Because of a growing social intimacy he was obliged to find a second cave in a more remote section of the country, where he completed his work and died. His history is written in the style of a religious mystic, is full of dramatic imagery, and has come down as an Armenian classic. (Langlois 2:179–82.)
[45] Lynch 1:313.
Ormanian p. 35.
[46] Ibid. p. 36.