6 Agat'angeghay patmut'iwn [Agat'angeghos' History], Robert Thomson, ed. (Albany, 1976; repr. of the classical Armenian text of Tiflis, 1909, with an English translation by Thomson), Arm. text, #34, pp. 48, 50. Hereafter Agat'angeghos.

7 Agat'angeghos, #36 p. 50.

8 Agat'angeghos, #37 p. 52.

9 According to Agat'angeghos #121, p. 132, it was the son-in-law of sparapet "Artawan" (i.e., Artawazd) named Tachat who revealed Grigor's lineage to Trdat. But in the version presented in Movses Xorenats'i, II. 82, it was Trdat's dayeak Artawazd (Mamikonean) himself who informed Trdat.

10 See, for example, the spurious traditions in Zenobay Glakay Asorwoy episkoposi Patmut'iwn Taronoy [The Syrian Bishop Zenob Glak's History of Taron] 2nd ed. (Venice, 1889) pp.. 21-22 wherein Grigor's dayeak was an Iranian acquaintance of Anak's, named (fittingly enough) Burdar (Ir. "Carrier") who was married to a Christian noblewoman of Caesarea, named Sop'i. According to Zenob, Sop'i became Grigor's nurse, while Grigor's supposed baby brother "Suren" was carried to safety in Iran, again thanks to Burdar.

11 Cf. H. Hambarean, "Xorenats'woy keghdzik' men al Artawazd Mandakuni t'e Mamikonean [Another Falsification by Xorenats'i, Artawazd Mandakuni or Mamikonean[", Handes Amsoreay (1910), pp. 17-18. On the sparapet see R. Bedrosian, "The Sparapetut'iwn in Armenia in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries", Armenian Review, 2(1983), pp. 6-46.

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