Tigranes the Great in Armenia

The river Tigris has its source in the Tauros. The Tigris is named after the Medic word for arrow. Tigranes II was the father of Artavasdes II and was a descendent of Artaxias. Pompeius assessed Tigranes 6000 talents of silver which was distributed among the Roman army.
   Many parts of Armenia were colonised by Hellenes and Thessalians in particular. Medios was a Larisian. The Armenian fashion for long chitons and eagerness for horsemanship originated in Thessaly. This seems to be related to the earlier expeditions of Jason and Medeia. They say the region is cold and liable to sudden snowstorms and blizzards and the soldiers carry a long coloured pipe which they can thrust upward through the snow if they become trapped which allows them to breathe through whole they await rescue.
   Tigranes founded Tigranokerta on the Euphrates river not far from Zeugma. He ravaged several cities including Ninos and Arbela and eventually took Syria and Phoenicia in revenge against the Parthians. Lucullus later razed Tigranokerta and it became nothing more than a village. He also pushed Tigranes out of the Levant. 
   King Artavasdes became friends with the Roman Emperor Antonius and later betrayed the Romans to the Parthians so Artavasdes was seized and paraded in chains through Alexandria and was later killed during the war at Aktium.
   Armenia possibly gets its name from Armenos, who came from the city of Armenion, which was a Thessalian city that lies on Lake Boibe between Pharai and Larisa. They say some wild and disobedient Thracians settled in the mountainous areas and were called Saraparians. They were scalpers and beheaders. A nice bunch of folk.
   Artanes (descendent of Zariadris, the commander of Antiochus the Great) was beaten by Tigranes. Artanes was a Sophenian. The Persians once held Armenia under Orontes descendant of Hydarnes and so did the Macedonians.