History of the Armenians

...person is called a chronicler of the Greeks at the end of the third book (page 58). Our own Ghazar P'arpetsi an influential 5th-century Armenian historian calls him a "Buzandatsi" (Byzantine), and his native city, Byzantium original: "Բիւզանդիոն", confirms this opinion (pages 2 and 11). For those who examine his work, his style provides even stronger evidence. He often tries to disparage the Armenian nation, generally mocking our ancestors. He claims they did not receive the faith from the heart but hypocritically from the beginning (page 33), and he defines the authority of the catholicos of our nation as merely a blessing for the king’s table (page 232). He frequently weaves insults against our nation, which are hateful rather than brotherly. For this reason, P'arpetsi, with great skill, provides an appropriate interpretation of him while attempting to make him blameless:

"Now, in Byzantium," he says, "in such a city and in the midst of so many learned people, did P'awstos, that trained man, arrange such unpleasant words for the listeners in his history? Far be it. Hence, I consider the act to be unbelievable to my own weak mind, and I say that perhaps someone else, bold and uninstructed in speech, rudely took it upon himself to write whatever he wished, or perhaps, failing to find a place for his own ideas, he spoke allegorically, and hid the mistakes of his own audacity under the name of P'awstos."

But since the historian himself, in the twelfth chapter of the third book (page 29)...

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