IfiB gon being able to keep it, from hii itnbeeility la&d the {^oweriiil eneihies lie had to contetid trith on ^1 8ides» he deterttimed ^n sacrificing ft. To do this the more e^ctually, ahd to tender the league more binding, Tigranes agreed to give his daughter in Aattiage to Bacur the . von of Arshet:.
The king of Persia hereu|>o)i sent the Arme^* Bian monarch a large army commanded by his ton Bacur or Pacorus. He alsi6 auth<Hized Tigranes to treat with the Romans in his name, ai his wisdom should directs Tigtanes also ob^^ tained the alliance of Barzaphran porince of the Rushtunians, to whom he confided the charge t>f the Armenian army, with the supreme com* mand of all the combined forces, as well Persiaa as Armenian. Bacur merely received the rank of geneml in consequence of his high birth and dignity. The allied army marched against the RdmsBs. Barsaphran 6 first CMfipaigti wa^ l^^ directed against the Assyrians. Setting out from Upper Mesopotamia he speedily oi^erMti Assyria, and invaded Phcenicia* Antonius nftd^ «n attempt to stop his progress, but, thMugti the weakness of his army> was t>bliged to retreebt before the invaders. He siiortly sifter went to Rome. In this irtage of the svcceases of the tMMnbined armies, Antigonus, ^on of Aristobulusi made an oCer to the princes Bar^aphfan ttnd
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