With one stroke of the pen I erased all conquests which might have proved dangerous: not only Mesopotamia, where we could not have maintained ourselves, but Armenia, which was too far away and too removed from our sphere, and which I retained only as a vassal state.
Mesopotamia kitatu ezezik, han inola ere ezingo baikenukeen luzaroan iraun, Armenia bera ere alde batera utzi genuen, exzentrikoegi eta urrunegia baitzen, nahiz-eta estatu sujet gisa inperioari atxikirik jarraitu.