A revolution had occurred in the Parthian Empire. The grandees of the kingdom, with the young, bold and talented grand Vizier at their head, had overthrown King Mithridatesis and placed his brother, Orodis, on the throne. Mithradatees therefore made common calls with the Romans and resulted to the camp of Gabineas.

Everything promised the best results to the enterprise of the Roman governor when he unexpectedly received orders to conduct the King of Egypt back by force of arms to Alexandria.

He was obliged to obey, but in the expectation of soon coming back, he induced the dethroned

pathion prince who solicited aid from him to commence the war in the meanwhile at

his own hand.

Withredities did so and Salusia, a city, and Babylon declared for him.

But the Vizier captured Salusia by assault, having been in person the first amount of battlements, and in Babylon,

Mithradites himself was forced by famine to surrender, whereupon he was by his brother's

orders put to death. His death was a palpable loss to the Romans, but it by no means

put an end to the Furman in the Parthian Empire, and the Armenian war continued. Gabineus, after ending the Egyptian

campaign, was just on the eve of turning to account the still

favourable opportunity of resuming the interrupted pathian war, when Krasas arrived in Syria Syria and along with the command took up also the

plans of his predecessor. Full of higher flown hopes he estimated the difficulties of the

March of slight and the power of resistance in the armies of the enemy

as yet slighter. He not only spoke confidently of the subjugation of the Parthians,

but he was already in imagination the conqueror of the kingdom of Bactria and India."

So a fair bit there in that at least that last bit.

There is all sorts of conflict going on out in the east from from Armenia down to Egypt.

It's actually largely infighting among themselves,

and Rome as always is sort of playing the game,

of switching sides and getting involved here and there and trying to

manipulate events for their own benefit. But when Crassus turns up basically

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