At this time and ever since the removal of Vonones, they had no
king; but the affections of the nations leaned to Zeno, son of Polemon,
king of Pontus, because by an attachment, from his infancy, to the
fashions and customs of the Armenians, by hunting, feasting, and other
usages practised and renowned amongst the barbarians, he had equally won
the nobles and people. Upon his head therefore, at the city of Artaxata,
with the approbation of the nobles, in a great assembly, Germanicus put
the regal diadem; and the Armenians doing homage to their king, saluted
him, _Artaxias_, a name which from that of their city, they gave him. The
Cappadocians, at this time reduced into the form of a province, received
for their governor Quintus Veranius; and to raise their hopes of the
gentler dominion of Rome, several of the royal taxes were lessened.
Quintus Servaeus was set over the Comagenians, then first subjected to the
jurisdiction of a Praetor.
From the affairs of the allies, thus all successfully settled, Germanicus
reaped no pleasure, through the perverseness and pride of Piso, who was
ordered to lead by himself or his son, part of the legions into Armenia,
but contemptuously neglected to do either.
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