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fluence,[1] although at the time the general feeling was that Armenia had been restored to the ostensible, if not actual, control of Rome.[2]
The years which followed the Parthian victories in Syria and Armenia and the subsequent disorder within their empire saw the scene of their contest with Rome shifted to the Euphrates, which by the beginning of the Christian era had for nearly a hundred years been the boundary between the two great powers.
- ↑ Tigranes' coins bear Parthian titles; see Newell, Coins of Eastern Dynasts ("Numismatic Notes and Monographs," No. 30), pp. 13–15.
- ↑ Mon. Ancyr. v (27); Strabo xvii. 1. 54; Dio Cass. liv. 9; Josephus Ant. xv. 105; Tac. Ann. ii. 3; Vell. Pat. ii. 94. 4 and 122. 1; Suet. Augustus 21. 3 and Tiberius 9. 1. Cf. also Crinagoras in Anthologia Planudea xvi. 61 (Loeb, V). On the coinage see Mattingly and Sydenham, op. cit., I, 47 and 69, Nos. 97 ff., issued in 18 b.c., especially No. 101, which bears the legend CAESAR DIVI F ARME CAPTA and the figure of an Armenian kneeling to the right.
