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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia

CHAPTER XII
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She was content for the most part, to maintain her limits.

She sought no new foe.

Her contest with Rome degenerated into a struggle for influence over the kingdom of Armenia; and her hopes were limited to the reduction of that kingdom into a subject position.
The death of Pacorus is said to have caused Orodes intense grief.

For many days he would neither eat nor speak; then his sorrow took another turn.

He imagined that his son had returned; he thought continually that he heard or saw him; he could do nothing but repeat his name.


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