He had commissioned P. Ventidius Bassus, an officer who had followed Fulvia from Italy, to hold the Parthians in check till his return.

Crassus defeated and slain in the war against the Parthians at Carrhae.

Campaign against the Parthians on account of the expulsion of Exedares from Armenia and the introduction there of Parthomasiris (chapters 17, 18).

The Men he carried over were enough T'have put the Parthian to his second flight Or the proud Indian taught the Roman Yoke.

But if to Neroes end this onely way Heavens Justice hath chose out, and peoples love Could not but by these feebling ills be mov'd, We doe not then at all complaine; our harmes On this condition please us; let us die And cloy the Parthian with revenge and pitie.

He administered the subject country in peace, and turned the Parthians against one another.

[-26-] About the same period Artabanus the Parthian after the death of Artaxias bestowed Armenia upon his son Arsaces.

Thus the garments known by them as braies, and by the Parthians as sarabara, doubtless gave origin to those which have been respectively called by us chausses, haut-de-chausses, trousses, grègues, culottes, pantalons, &c.

For the Romans, altering their formation, so as to be facing them, put the Parthians behind them.

The Parthians of old were so sottish in this kind, they would rather lose a victory, nay lose their own lives, than fight in the night, 'twas against their religion.

He was then shut up and besieged in Laodicea, where he was entirely cut off from the land, to be sure (Cassius being assisted by some Parthians among others), but retained some power through the Asiatic ships and the Egyptian ones which Cleopatra had sent him, and furthermore by means of the money which came to him from her.

who had formerly made an arrangement with Lucullus, as I mentioned, and later joined with the Parthian against Crassus.

Augustus received them with the appearance of having conquered the Parthian in some war.