later, that Britain knew in the summer what Egypt and the Parthians had learned in the spring is illustrative of Parthian success along this line.[1]
A brother of Osroes named Meherdotes (a later form of Mithradates) recovered for Parthia some of the region about the middle Euphrates. He died when thrown from his horse and was succeeded by his son Sanatruces. Sanatruces, at one time king of Armenia also, inflicted much damage upon the Romans.[2] Two generals were at once ordered to put down the revolt in the north: Lucius Quietus and Maximus (perhaps Appius Maximus Santra). The former, in addition to other victories, besieged and captured Nisibis and sacked and burned Edessa. Abgarus VII, its ruler, fled to refuge in eastern Parthia.[3] The
- ↑ Jerome Epist. lxxvii. 10.
- ↑ Arrian Parthica fr. 77; Malalas, pp. 269 f. On the use of Malalas as a source for events of this period see Alexander Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg, Die römische Kaisergeschichte bei Malalas (Stuttgart, 1931), pp. 260–94. For the present the objections raised by Longden, "Parthian Campaigns of Trajan," JRS, XXI (1931), 29–35, seem sufficient to prevent a wider use of Malalas. A "Sanatruk the king" is mentioned in an inscription at Hatra; see W. Andrae, Hatra nach Aufnahmen von Mitgliedern der Assur-Expedition (WVDOG, XXI [Leipzig, 1912]), p. 162, Fig. 279, and Pls. XIII and XXII. For transcription and translation see W. Andrae and P. Jensen, "Aramäische Inschriften aus Assur und Hatra aus der Partherzeit," MDOG, No. 60 (1920), pp. 49 f. On the possibility that this Sanatruces is the Parthian king see Herzfeld, "Hatra," ZDMG, LXVIII (1914), 659–61.
- ↑ This is on the assumption that the Abgarus who returned from Bactria in 155 is the same man. The chief objection to this proposal is his age at his restoration, for he would have come to the throne in 109 and have been restored in 155.
