Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honorable treaty, the restitution of the standards and prisoners which had been taken in the defeat of Crassus.

[1] [Footnote 1: Dion Cassius, (l.liv.p.

736,) with the annotations of Reimar, who has collected all that Roman vanity has left upon the subject.

The marble of Ancyra, on which Augustus recorded his own exploits, asserted that he compelled the Parthians to restore the ensigns of Crassus.] His generals, in the early part of his reign, attempted the reduction of Ethiopia and Arabia Felix.

They marched near a thousand miles to the south of the tropic; but the heat of the climate soon repelled the invaders, and protected the un-warlike natives of those sequestered regions.