Parthian towns, like Halus and Artemita, followed their example.

Seleucia, the second city in the Empire, received the new monarch with an obsequiousness that bordered on adulation.

Not content with paying him all customary royal honors, they appended to their acclamations disparaging remarks upon his predecessor, whom they affected to regard as the issue of an adulterous intrigue, and as no true Arsacid.

Tiridates was pleased to reward the unseemly flattery of these degenerate Greeks by a new arrangement of their constitution.
Hitherto they had lived under the government of a Senate of Three Hundred members, the wisest and wealthiest of the citizens, a certain control being, however, secured to the people.

Artabanus had recently modified the constitution in an aristocratic sense; and therefore Tiridates pursued the contrary course, and established an unbridled democracy in the place of a mixed government.