married.[1] This act, which horrified the Greeks and Romans,[2] suggests a possible connection with the changes which Zoroastrianism was then undergoing. Customs long confined solely to the Magi were being adopted at this time by the people as a whole; thus burial in rock tombs was abandoned for exposure and the collection of the bones in small rock cuttings.[3] Next-of-kin marriages had been common among the Magi.
After his interview with Phraataces Gaius advanced northward into Armenia, where he placed Ariobarzanes, son of Artabazus, king of the Medes, on the throne. Revolt against this new Roman appointee was soon in full swing, and Gaius began military operations to suppress it. In due course he attacked the stronghold of Artagira,[4] which was defended by Addon,[5] perhaps the satrap set over the
- ↑ The date is fixed by the appearance of the head of Musa for the first time on the coins along with that of Phraataces; see Gardner, Parthian Coinage, pp. 45 f. The only other appearance of the heads of king and queen together on the Parthian coinage is in the reign of Gotarzes II; see Wroth, Parthia, p. 172.
- ↑ Cf. Josephus Ant. xviii. 42 f.; Lucan De bell. civ. viii. 401–10; M. Felix Octavius xxxi. 3; Orac. Sibyl, vii. 38–50.
- ↑ Justin xli. 3. 5. Silius Italicus xiii. 473 f. mentions that it was proper to bring dogs to the royal corpses in Hyrcania. Lucian De luctu 21 notes that the Persians bury their dead. See also Herzfeld, Archaeological History of Iran (London, 1935), pp. 38 f.
- ↑ PW s.v., No. 1. The spelling and date are fixed by CIL, IX, No. 5290.
- ↑ PW, art. "Donnes." The spelling is uncertain; perhaps Dones or Addus is better.
