center of Syrinx[1] was taken after a siege of some duration, and all the Greek inhabitants were put to death by the Parthians just before the town was carried by assault.[2] What happened thereafter is uncertain, but Antiochus found it prudent to make peace and a treaty of alliance with Artabanus.[3] Twenty-one years later Antiochus met his death in a vain attempt to recoup his fortune by the sack of a temple of Bel in Elymais.[4] We know nothing more of Artabanus I except that his reign is conventionally represented as ending in 191 b.c.[5]
Priapatius, the succeeding monarch, ruled for fifteen years,[6] but beyond this fact our sources are silent. He left two sons, Mithradates and Phraates. As the latter was the elder,[7] he inherited the throne at his father's death, as was the Parthian custom.[8]
- ↑ Dorn, op. cit., p. 127; W. Tomaschek, "Zur hist. Topographie," SAWW, CII (1883), 224 f.; Marquart, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Eran (Göttingen, 1896–1905), II, 62; PW, art. "Syrinx," No. 3. Possibly Turunga, a day's trip west of Sari.
- ↑ Polyb. x. 27–31; at this point the fragment unfortunately breaks off.
- ↑ Justin xli. 5. 7.
- ↑ Strabo xvi. 1. 18; Diod. Sic. xxviii. 3 and xxix. 15; Justin xxxii. 2. 1 f.; Porphyry frs. 32. 10 and 47 (J, II B, pp. 1216 and 1224 f.).
- ↑ Wroth, Parthia, p. xix; cf. Rawlinson, Sixth Mon., p. 59, who makes it 196 b.c.
- ↑ Justin xli. 5. 9; until 176 b.c., Wroth, Parthia, p. xx; until 181 b.c., Rawlinson, Sixth Mon., p. 59, and Sykes, Hist. of Per., I, 321. The name Priapatius would seem to be the same as that of Arsaces' ancestor Phriapites; cf. n. 41.
- ↑ Justin xli. 5, 9.
- ↑ Rawlinson, Sixth Mon., p. 85.
