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PACORUS , a See also:Parthian name, See also:borne by two Parthian princes.
1. PACORUS, son of See also:Orodes I., was, after the See also:battle of Carrhae, sent by his See also:father into See also:Syria at the See also:head of an See also:army in 52 B.C. The See also:prince was still very See also:young, and the real See also:leader was Osaces. He was defeated and killed by C. See also:Cassius, and soon after Pacorus was recalled by his father, because one of the satraps had rebelled and proclaimed him See also: Father and son were reconciled, but the See also:war against the See also:Romans was always deferred. In the autumn of 45 Pacorus and the Arabic chieftain Alchaudonius came to the help of Q. See also:Caecilius See also:Bassus, who had rebelled against See also:Caesar in Syria; but Pacorus soon returned, as his troops were unable to operate in the See also:winter (Cie. ad Att. xiv. g. 3; Dio Cass. xlvii. 27). At last in 40 B.C. the See also:Roman fugitive See also:Titus See also:Labienus induced Orodes to send a See also:great army under the command of Pacorus against the Roman provinces. Pacorus conquered the whole of Syria and See also:Phoenicia with the exception of See also:Tyre, and invaded See also:Palestine, where he plundered See also:Jerusalem, deposed See also:Hyrcanus, and made his See also:nephew Antigonus king (Dio Cass. xlviii. 24 sqq.; See also:Joseph. See also:Ant. xiv. 13; Tac. Hist. v. 9). Mean-while Labienus occupied See also:Cilicia and the See also:southern parts of See also:Asia See also:Minor down to the Carian See also:coast (Dio Cass. xlviii. 26; See also:Strabo xiv. 66o). But in 39 P. Ventidius Bassus, the See also:general of See also:Mark Antony, drove him back into Cilicia, where he was killed, defeated the Parthians in Syria (Dio Cass. xlviii. 39 sqq.) and at last See also:beat Pacorus at Gindarus (in See also:northern Syria), on the 9th of See also:June 38, the anniversary of the battle of Carrhae. Pacorus himself was slain in the battle, which effectually stopped the Parthian conquests See also:west of the See also:Euphrates (Dio Cass. xlix. 19 seq.; Justin xlii. 4; Plut. Anton. 24; Strabo xvi. 751; Velleius ii. 78; cf. See also:Horace, Od. iii. 6, g). 2. PACORUS, Parthian king, only mentioned by Dio Cass. lxviii. 17; See also:Arrian, ap. Suid. s.v. thva7rit, according to whom he sold the See also:kingdom of See also:Osroene :o See also:Abgar VII.; and See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus See also:xxiii. 6. 23, who mentions that he enlarged See also:Ctesiphon and built its walls. But from his numerous dated coins we learn that he was on the See also:throne, with interruptions, from A.D. 78–95. He always calls himself See also:Arsaces Pacorus. This mention of his proper name, together with the royal name Arsaces, shows that his kingdom was disputed by rivals. Two of them we know from coins—See also:Vologaeses II., who appears from 77–79 and again from 111–146, and See also:Artabanus III. in 8o and 81. Pacorus may have died about 105; he was succeeded by his See also:brother Orroes. (ED. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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