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Parthia
The Parthian empire east of the Euphrates, Rome's great rival in the East; the planned Parthian war is the setting of Gaius and Lucius Caesar's loss.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Polybius §15 Parthian war
The projected campaign against Parthia, Rome's rival empire beyond the Euphrates, during whose preparations Lucius and then Gaius Caesar died.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.36.7 Parthia
The Parthian empire east of the Euphrates, Rome's great rival in the East; the Parthians were proverbial mounted archers, so a child there learns the bow at once.
- Natural Questions §1.pr.9 the Parthians
The Parthian empire east of the Euphrates, Rome's great rival power in the East; here a byword for a distant frontier.
- Oedipus §110 Parthian
The Parthians, famed for shooting arrows backward as they feigned retreat ('the Parthian shot').
- Oedipus §467 Getic arrows
The Getae, a Thracian/Danubian people, here standing for the northern archer-tribes.
- Phaedra §795 Parthian
Parthia, whose mounted archers shot arrows into the sky and at the retreat.
- Thyestes §336 Parthian
The Parthians, eastern horse-archers who shot while feigning flight.