[23] Chamich, “History of Armenia,” p. 22.
[24] Brockhous, “Lexico II,” p. 60.
[25] Sayce, “Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van,” Journal R.A.S., Vol. XIV, p. 392.
[26] Rogers, “History of Babylonia and Assyria,” Vol. I, pp. 455-6
[27] Hincks, Journal Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. IX, p. 422.
[28] Hastings’ “Dictionary of the Bible,” under the article Ararat.
[29] From Sarduris, by dropping d and by the exchange of B for S, we have Baruris or Baruros, vice versa.
[30] See II Kings, 24:11-16. This is the first captivity, about 597 B.C.
[31] This friendship between Cyrus and Tigranes furnished Xenophon with a fertile subject to expand his romantic genius. “And you, Tigranes,” said he (Cyrus), “at what rate would you purchase the regaining of your wife?” Now he happened to be but lately married and had a very great love for his wife. “Cyrus,” said he (Tigranes), “to save her from servitude, I would ransom her at the expense of my life.”
“Cyropædia,” Book III, Chapter I.