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POLITICAL HISTORY OF PARTHIA

Ovid, besides carrying on the literary tradition set up at an earlier date,[1] was greatly interested in the expedition of Gaius to Armenia.[2] Frequent references to Hyrcanian dogs in the work of Grattius on those animals show that they do not belong to the realm of legend but were in actual use.[3] Seneca[4] and Lucan[5] still employ the standard phrases; in the case of Silius Italicus[6] there seems to be little beyond the mere repetition of stock phrases. Statius, on the other hand, was a close friend of Abascantius, secretary to Domitian, and his writings abound in references

  1. Amores i. 2. 47; ii. 5. 40; 14. 35; 16. 39; Heroides xv. 76; Metamorph. i. 61 f. and 777 f.; ii. 248 f.; iv. 21, 44–46, 212, 605 f.; v. 47 ff. and 60; vi. 636; viii. 121; xi. 166 f.; xv. 86 and 413; Remedia amoris 155 ff. and 224; De medicamine faciei 10 and 21; Ars amat. i. 199, 201 f., 223 ff.; ii. 175; iii. 195 f., 248, 786; Tristia v. 3. 23 f.; Epistulae ex Ponto i. 5. 79 f.; ii. 4. 27; iv. 8. 61; Fasti i. 76, 341, 385 f.; iii. 465, 719 f., 729; iv. 569.
  2. See p. 150, n. 30.
  3. Grattius 155–62, 196, 314 f., 508.
  4. De const. sap. xiii. 3; De brev. vit. iv. 5; De cons. ad Polyb. xv. 4; De cons. ad Helviam x. 3; Hercules furens 909 ff. and 1323 f.; Troades 11; Medea 373 f., 483 f., 723 ff., 865; Hippolytus 67, 70, 344 f., 389, 753, 816; Oedipus 114, 117–19, 427 f., 458; Thyestes 370 ff., 462, 601–6, 630 f., 707, 732; Herc. Oet. 40 f., 157–61, 241 f., 336, 414, 515, 628, 630, 659 f., 667; Phoenissae 428; Octavia 627 f.; Epist. iv. 7; xii. 8; xvii. 11; xxxiii. 2; xxxvi. 7; lviii. 12; lxxi. 37; civ. 15.
  5. De bell. civ. i. 10 ff., 230, 328; ii. 49 f., 296, 496, 552 f., 594, 633, 637–39; iii. 236, 245, 256 ff., 266 ff.; iv. 64 and 680 f.; v. 54 f.; vi. 49–51; vii. 188, 281, 427 ff., 442 f., 514–17, 539–43; ix. 219 ff. and 266 f.; x. 46–52, 120, 139, 142, 252, 292.
  6. iii. 612 f.; v. 281; vi. 4; vii. 646 f.; viii. 408 and 467; xi. 41 f. and 402; xii. 460; xiii. 473 f.; xiv. 658 and 663–65; xv. 23, 79–81, 570; xvii. 595 f. and 647.