In the second year of Abgar’s reign, all the districts of Armenia became vassals to the Romans. A command was given by the Emperor Augustus . . . to number all the people in every part. Roman commissioners were sent into Armenia for that purpose, and they carried there statues of the Emperor Augustus. They set them up in all the temples. Moses of Chorene (date uncertain, E), 8.702.
Ante-Nicene Christianity
Whatever came first is true. Truth is from the beginning.