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Zenon

3. Son of Polemon, king of Pontus, was crowned king of Armenia by Germanicus at Artaxata, A. D. 18. From the name of the city where he was crowned, the name Artaxias was bestowed upon him. (Tac. Annal. 2.56.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.