Parthians
group · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the Parthians · the kings of the Parthians
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
People referenced as defeated by the Roman legion under Mark Antony.
So in Tacitus, Antony the First serving under Vespasian, reminds the soldiers of the third legion of what they had done in former times, how under Mark Antony they had beaten the Parthians, and under Corbulo the Armenians.
It is to be observed that children were sometimes given, as hostages, which we find was done by the Parthians, and by Simon, who was one of the Maccabees.
Orations
Parthian people, grouped with Persians and Bactrians for dress.
for where they sometimes see men, some with felt caps upon their heads—as now some of the Thracians called Getae, and formerly the Lacedaemonians and Macedonians—others with the tiara and trousers, as, I suppose, the Persians and Bactrians and Parthians and many other barbarians;
Consolation to Helvia
A people from whom luxurious Romans are said to procure exotic birds for banquets.
They want game taken beyond the Phasis to furnish their pretentious kitchen, and they are not ashamed to fetch birds from the Parthians, of whom we have not yet exacted the penalty.
Letters to Lucilius
Foreign royal group referenced as an example of a court requiring tribute for audience.
The kings of the Parthians cannot be greeted without a gift;
Adversus Judaeos
A people named among the many nations who have believed in and obeyed Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …