(identified as Pacorus) sent gifts of lions and ostriches from Mesene,[1] the latter perhaps brought there by traders from Arabia.
We have further evidence that Pacorus was not dead, however; for Decebalus, the famous Dacian opponent of Trajan, presented the Parthian with a slave named Callidromus, presumably a Greek, taken from the Romans by one of the Dacian leaders. The Greek remained for a number of years with Pacorus, and eventually came to possess a beautiful gem engraved with the figure of the Parthian ruler.[2] Possibly some of the heavy Parthian cavalry had aided the Dacians, for the armored warriors on Trajan's column that are usually called Sarmatians might also be Parthians.[3] Perhaps it was to this Pacorus that Martial referred in one of his poems as deliberating in Arsacia (Rhages).[4] In 110[5] Pacorus sold the kingdom of Osroene to Abgarus VII, son of Izates, but the territory may have remained subject to Parthia in some manner. About the same time a ruler named Tiridates was deposed from the Armenian throne by Osroes, and Axidares, one of the two sons
- ↑ Édouard Chavannes, "Les pays d'Occident d'après le Heou Han chou," T'oung pao, 2. sér., VIII (1907), 178 and n.
- ↑ Pliny Epist. x. 74.
- ↑ M. Dieulafoy, "L'Art antique de la Perse, V (Paris, n.d.), p. 54; Karl Lehmann-Hartleben, Die Trajanssäule (Leipzig, 1926), Pl. 17, No. 31, and Pl. 20, No. 37.
- ↑ Martial Epig. ix. 35. 3.
- ↑ Gutschmid, Geschichte Irans, p. 140.
