ORIGIN OF THE PARTHIAN STATE.
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from sharing a locality with the Greeks, and make the experiment of having for their headquarters a The experiment did not city wholly their own. altogether succeed.
Either Hecatompylos had natural
advantages even greater than those of Dara, or, as the growth of the Parthian power was mainly towards the west, the eastward position of the latter was found After a short trial, the successors of inconvenient. Tiridates ceased to reside at Dara, and
became once more the Parthian
Hecatompylos and the seat
capital
of Parthian government Tiridates, having
done
his best, according
COIN OF ARTABANUS lights, for the security of Parthia for her within, died
prosperity
his
I.
from without, and peaceably after a
which
is reckoned at thirty-four years, and lasted probably from B.C. 248 to B.C. 214. He left his throne to a son, named Artabanus, who, like
reign j
to
Iwhich
"
his father, took the "
throne-name of Arsaces, and is in history as Arsaces the Third. \jcnown Artabanus I if we may judge by his coins, was ,
not unlike his father
appearance, having the same slightly aquiline nose, and the same but he differed from his father in possessing in
projecting and large eye
;
He hair, and wearing a long beard. has discarded, moreover, the cap of Tiridates, and,
abundance of