The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

He descended the River Tigris in triumph, from the mountains of Armenia to the Persian Gulf.

He enjoyed the honor of being the first, as he was the last, of the Roman generals, who ever navigated that remote sea.

His fleets ravaged the coast of Arabia; and Trajan vainly flattered himself that he was approaching towards the confines of India.

[20] Every day the astonished senate received the intelligence of new names and new nations, that acknowledged his sway.