appears to have succeeded his brother Artaxerxes in A.D.

383, the year before the conclusion of the treaty.

It is uncertain whether Artaxerxes vacated the throne by death, or was deposed in consequence of cruelties whereof he was guilty towards the priests and nobles.

Tabari and Macoudi, who relate his deposition, are authors on whom much reliance cannot be placed; and the cruelties reported accord but ill with the epithets of "the Beneficent" and "the Virtuous," assigned to this monarch by others.

Perhaps it is most probable that he held the throne till his death, according to the statements of Agathias and Eutychius.