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...ne of them led to India, the other steered westward to reach Merv, where it merged with the Northern way. Further, having passed Nisa, the capital of Parthia, it went on through Iran, Mesopotamia, then, via Baghdad, led to Damascus and beyond to finally reach the Mediterranean. The third route, the most difficult of them, was called the Steppe way. Having crossed the Tian...

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...er: Labienus This is stiff news hath, with his Parthian force, Extended Asia from Euphrates; His conquering banner shook f... ... CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA.] MARK ANTONY: If we compose well here, to Parthia: Hark, Ventidius. OCTAVIUS CAESAR: I do not know, M... ...e: Say to Ventidius I would speak with him: [Exit Soothsayer.] He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap, He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him; A... ... O, come, Ventidius, You must to Parthia: your commission s ready; Follow me, and receive t. ... ...iers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him.] VENTIDIUS: Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus d... ... 55 SILIUS: Noble Ventidius, Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm, The fugitive Parthians follow; spur throu... ...w, with his banners and his well-paid ranks, The ne er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia We have jaded out o the field. SILIUS: ... ...ey exercise. His sons he there proclaim d the kings of kings: Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia. He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign d Syria, C... ... The gods withhold me! Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts, Though enemy, lost aim, and could not? MARK ANTONY: ...

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... 187 Mes. Labienus (this is stiffe- newes) 188 Hath with his Parthian Force 189 Extended Asia: from Euphrates his conquering 190 ... ...esar, Mecenas, and Agrippa. 698 Ant. If we compose well heere, to Parthia: 699 Hearke Ventidius. 700 Caesar. I do not know Me... ... Say to Ventigius I would speake with him. Exit. 999 He shall to Parthia, be it Art or hap, 1000 He hath spoken true. The very Dice obey... ...ra Shakespeare: First Folio 1008 Enter Ventigius. 1009 You must to Parthia, your Commissions ready: 1010 Follow me, and reciue’t. Exeunt ... ...Crassus. 1501 Romaine. Noble Ventidius, 1502 Whil’st yet with Parthian blood thy Sword is warme, 1503 The Fugitiue Parthians follow. ... ...s Banners, and his well paid ranks, 1531 The nere- yet beaten Horse of Parthia, 1532 We haue iaded out o’th’ Field. 1533 Rom. Where is... ...4 His Sonnes hither proclaimed the King of Kings, 1765 Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia 1766 He gaue to Alexander. To Ptolomy he assign’... ... Eros. The Gods with- hold me, 2905 Shall I do that which all the Parthian Darts, 2906 (Though Enemy) lost ayme, and could not. 2907 ...

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...nd by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an empire. But her sov... ...ied on in a serious trial of strength between the two powers. The kings of Parthia, therefore, were far enough from being regarded in the light of ant... ...raries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia; and the cut- ting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. The... ...appeared, he found a strenu- ous champion and protector in the king of the Parthians. Possibly, had an opportunity offered for searching the Parthian ... ...arthian chancery, some treaty would have been found bind- ing the kings of Parthia, from the age of Augustus through some generations downwards, in re... ... he turned to other counsels; sometimes meditating a flight to the King of Parthia, or even to throw himself on the mercy of Galba; sometimes inclinin... ... that, happening in its outbreak to coincide with 103 Thomas de Quincey a Parthian war, it was skilfully protracted until the entire thunders of Rome... ...edless war; and he achieved conquests in the direction of Dacia as well as Parthia. But that these conquests were not substan- tial,—that they were co... ... assured by a writer not disposed to flatter him, the very foremost of the Parthian archers and of the Mauritanian lancers [Parthyaion oi toxichæs hac...

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...he camp, sent ten of his strongest el- ephants with divers of his Mede and Parthian lances to keep off the press. Then he could not endure to have Eum... ...rrest, and reserved for the triumph. Not long after this Phraates, king of Parthia, sent to Pompey, and demanded to have young Tigranes, as his son- i... ...m, to whom he gave friendly answer by letter; and sent against the king of Parthia, who had made incursions upon Gordyene, and despoiled the subjects ... ...; insomuch that to gratify these other kings, when he wrote to the king of Parthia, he would not condescend, as others used to do, in the superscripti... ...nd sent them. Thus when there arose a difference betwixt the Armenians and Parthians about some territory, and the judgment was referred to him, he ga... ...rs’ charge of his province; to Crassus there were appointed Syria, and the Parthian war; and to Pompey himself, all Africa, together with both Spains,... ... the am- bition of these men. Besides, not long after came messengers from Parthia with intelligence of the death of Crassus there, by which another s... ... by Publius, the son of Crassus, her first husband, who had been killed in Parthia. The young lady had other attrac- tions besides those of youth and ... ...eal feelings towards Caesar. Presently, also, under presence of a war with Parthia, he sent for his two legions which he had lent him. However, Caesar...

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...e before my face 2517 Enter Pindarus. 2518 Come hither sirrah: In Parthia did I take thee Prisoner, 2519 And then I swore thee, sauing of...

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...ring his stay on the banks of the Euphrates, there came to him Orobazus, a Parthian, ambassador from king Arsaces, as yet there having been no corresp... ...ccount of Sylla’s felicity, that he should be the first Roman, to whom the Parthians made address for alliance and friendship. At the time of which re... ...e placed himself in the middle, and so gave audience. For this the king of Parthia afterwards put Orobazus to death. Some people commended Sylla for h... ... of kings, and holds in his hands a power that has enabled him to keep the Parthians in narrow bounds, to remove Greek cities bodily into Media, to co... ...nning, he had gone on to be the conqueror of many nations, had humbled the Parthian power more than any before him, and filled Mesopotamia with Greeks... ...chma from the public treasury. After this came an embassy from the king of Parthia to him, desiring amity and confederacy; which being readily embrace... ...ing readily embraced by Lucullus, another was sent by him in return to the Parthian, the members of which discovered him to be a double-minded man, an... ...s and Mithridates as antagonists already overcome, and to try the power of Parthia, by leading his army against them, think- ing it would be a gloriou... ...ose. Upon these and worse words, Lucullus gave up the thoughts of invading Parthia, and in the height of summertime, went against Tigranes. Passing ov...

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...s and successors, as Pharaoh to the kings of Egypt, or Arsaces to those of Parthia. This name was usually a patronymic, expressive of his descent from...

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...there was no collateral history. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it is for Rome to explain. 16 Thomas de Quincey We tax o... ...a solemn pageant before us, the two military em- pires then coexisting, of Parthia and Rome, and finally (un- der another idea of political greatness)...

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...rass. And Asia’s vanquished cities I will add, And quelled Niphates, and the Parthian foe, THE GEORGICS 35 Who trusts in flight and backward volleyin... ...ward told. Moreover, not Aegyptus, nor the realm Of boundless Lydia, no, nor Parthia’s hordes, Nor Median Hydaspes, to their king Do such obeisance: l... ...m summer clouds, Forth burst they, or like shafts from quivering string When Parthia’s flying hosts provoke the fray. Say what was he, what God, tha... ...ore, feed in air, The seas their fish leave naked on the strand, Germans and Parthians shift their natural bounds, And these the Arar, those the Tigri... ...O’er rocks, through echoing groves, and joy to launch Cydonian arrows from a Parthian bow. As if my madness could find healing thus, Or that god soft...

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...friend ta’en before my face! [PINDARUS descends .] Come hither, sirrah: In Parthia did I take thee prisoner; And then I swore thee, saving of thy life...

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...ards, or to a descent; then before him, sideways, and behind him, like the Parthians. They tied a cable-rope to the top of a high tower, by one end wh... ...chmans to see Hiarchus; as likewise unto Babylon, Chaldea, Media, Assyria, Parthia, Syria, Phoenicia, Arabia, Palestina, and Alexandria, even unto Aet... ...g in the air, or yet the young stags skipping through the thickets, as the Parthians knew well how to do; that is to say, people moiling, stirring and... ...and that niggardly miser Crassus was routed and knocked on the head by the Parthians, Pantagruel took his leave of the good Gargantua, his royal fathe... ... nevertheless, the part that was touched round about. You also talk of the Parthians, who used to shoot backwards more dexterously than other nations ...

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... whom the Ro- mans had to encounter after the second Carthaginian war. The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respectable, and upon severa... ...ch superior; and if the Romans did not pursue the final conquest either of Parthia or Germany, it was probably because they judged that it was not wor... ... barbarous countries to an empire which was already too large. The ancient Parthians appear to have been a nation of Scythian or T artar extraction, a...