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Synopsis: With Rome encroaching from the north and south, the sons of Grypus battle Parthians, usurpers and local powers to keep their hold on Syria. \n\n\n\n\u201cAs he lingered on the banks of the Euphrates, (Sulla) received a visit from Orobazus, a Parthian, who came as an ambassador from King Arsaces, although up to this time the two nations had held no intercourse with one another.\xa0 This also is thought to have been part of Sulla\u2019s great good fortune, that he should be the first Roman with whom the Parthians held conference when they wanted alliance and friendship.\u201d \u2013 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Sulla \n\n\n\n\u201cStraton, the tyrant of Berroea\u2026called in Zizon, the ruler of the Arabian tribes, and Mithridates Sinax, the ruler of the Parthians, who coming with a great number of forces, and besieging Demetrius (III) in his encampment, into which they had driven them with their arrows, compelled those that were with him by thirst to deliver up themselves.\xa0 So they took a great many spoils out of that country, and Demetrius himself, whom they sent to Mithridates (II).\u201d \u2013 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XIII, Chapter 12\n\n\n\n(Absolutely awesome and super-useful) map of Syria and surrounding territories c. 95 BC\n\n\n\nhttps://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/95BC.png\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices