Ev achkunkn ein aregakunk.
[14] The following lines from a Chaldean description of Ut-napisti, the Chaldean Noah’s sacrifice after the Flood, furnish an example from Assyrian poetry:—
“The gods smelled a savour,
The gods smelled a sweet savour,
The gods gathered like flies over the sacrifice.”
[15] Dziran in Armenian means “apricot,” therefore dzirani = “of apricot colour.” [↑]
[16] Strabo says about Artaxata that it was built upon a design which Hannibal gave to King Artaxes (Artashes), who made it the capital of Armenia, and Tournefort, the famous French botanist, who travelled in Armenia in the seventeenth century, exclaims, in reference to this fact: “Who could have imagined that Hannibal would come from Africa to Armenia to be engineer to an Armenian king? But so it is.” [↑]