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such Christian writers as Jerome still remember the Parthians.[1]
When Rome found herself confronted with new and more vigorous opponents, the Sasanidae, the Parthians were sometimes, though by no means always, confused with them. Examples of both confusion and correct identification may be found in Claudian, where again the Araxes, the Hyrcanian tiger, the Medes, the Indians, and other traditional terms appear.[2] Even as late as Boethius[3] and the Anthologia Latina[4] the tradition was still alive; indeed, through the medium of classical literature it was carried over into English classics.[5]
- ↑ Jerome Epist. xiv. 3; lxxvii. 10; cvii. 10; cxxv. 3; cxxvii. 3.
- ↑ Claudian Paneg. dictus Probino et Olybrio 78–81, 160–63, 170, 179 f.; In Rufinum i. 227, 293, 310–12, 374–76; ii. 242–44; De bello Gildonico 31–33; In Eutropium i. 321, 342–45, 354, 414–16; ii. 102, 475 f., 569–71; Fescennina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti i. 1 f.; Epithalamium 168, 210–12, 217, 222–25; Paneg. tertio cons. Hon. 4, 19 f., 27 f., 35 f., 70–72, 201–4, 210 f.; Paneg. quarto cons. Hon. 43 f., 145 f., 214–16, 257 f., 306–8, 387 f., 530 f., 542, 585 f., 601, 607–10, 653, 656; Paneg. dictus Manlio Theodoro 236; De consulatu Stilichonis i. 52 ff., 155–57, 266; iii. 62–64; Paneg. sexto cons. Hon. 18, 69 f., 85 f, 414–16, 562 f.; (IX) De hystrice 21 f.; (XXV) Epithalamium dictum Palladio et Celerinae 61, 74, 88 f.; (XXX) Laus Serenae 52; (XXXI) Epist. ad Serenam 7, 14–16; De raptu Proserpinae i. 17 f.; ii. 82, 94, 200; iii. 105, 263–65, 320, 325. The tradition that the victories of Trajan made Mesopotamia a Roman province appears in Claudian Paneg. quarto cons. Hon. 315–17 and is frequently alluded to elsewhere.
- ↑ Philosophiae consolatio ii. 2. 34–38; iii. 5. 5 and 10. 9; iv. 3. 15; v. 1. 1–3.
- ↑ Octavianus in Poetae Latini minores, IV, ed. A. Baehrens (Lipsiae, 1882), p. 249, lines 104 f., and p. 256, Verba amatoris ad pictorem 3 f.
- ↑ Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene I; Act IV, Scene 12, line 70; Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 6, line 20; Milton, Paradise Regained iii. 280 ff.
