But from henceforth their fidelity to the Achaemenian Kings was unbroken; they paid their tribute (apparently) without reluctance, and furnished contingents of troops to the Persian armies when called upon.

After Arbela they submitted without a struggle to Alexander; and when in the division of his dominions, which followed upon the battle of Ipsus, they fell naturally to Seleucus, they acquiesced in the arrangement.

It was not until Antiochus the Great suffered his great defeat at the hands of the Romans (B.C.

190) that Armenia bestirred itself, and, after probably four and a half centuries of subjection, became once more an independent power.

Even then the movement seems to have originated rather in the ambition of a chief than in a desire for liberty on the part of the people.