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The Biographical dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge-- Volume 3, pt. 2 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...who knew the country better than himself. He would have continued the struggle if Vitellius had not concentrated his troops, menacing Mesopotamia, and while Artabanus was thus made uneasy by the prospect of a conflict with the Romans, Sinnaces renewed his intrigues at the instigation of Vitellius. The defeats of Artabanus encouraged the conspirators; their party increased daily, and, as Artabanus had always ruled by fear rather than by kindness, his position became untenable, and he fled to the Hyrcani and Carmanii, his old Scythian friends, whose kings were his relatives. He justly expected that the Parthians would soon repeat their hostile proceedings against him. While Artabanus thus fled from his kingdom, Vitellius with the main body of his army, and accompanied by Tiridates, crossed the Euphrates, on the eastern banks of which he was met by a strong body of Parthian cavalry, headed by Ornospades, a Parthian noble, but an old friend of Tiberius, under whom he had commanded with success in the Dalmatian war, being then in exile. Soon after him arrived Sinnaces with more troops, and his father Abdageses with the royal treasures. Vitellius exhorted Tiridates to reign with dignity, and to maintain the friendly relations between the Parthians and the Romans, upon which he withdrew with his troops to Syria. The expulsion of Artabanus was the result of two campaigns, and consequently took place in A.d. 36. For some time the authority of Tiridates was respected; he took several towns of which the adherents of Artabanus were masters, especially Seleucia on the Tigris, but he did little for the pacification of an empire disturbed by civil faction, and having allowed himself to be ruled by Abdageses, he thereby displeased Hiero and Phraates, two powerful nobles, w...
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