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TIRIDATES, or TERIDATES

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1010 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIRIDATES, or TERIDATES , a See also:Persian name, given by See also:Arrian in his Parthica (preserved by See also:Photius, See also:cod. 58, and See also:Syncellus, p. 539 seq.) to the See also:brother of See also:Arsaces I., the founder of the See also:Parthian See also:kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded. But Arrian's See also:account seems to be quite unhistorical (cf. See also:PARTHIA). The See also:king commonly called TIRIDATES II. was set up by the Parthians against Phraates IV. in 32 B.C., but expelled when Phraates returned with the help of the Scythians (Dio See also:Cass. li. 18; See also:Justin xlii. 5 seq.; cf. See also:Horace, Od. i. 26). Tiridates fled to See also:Syria, where See also:Augustus allowed him to stay, but refused to support him. During the next years Tiridates invaded Parthia again; some coins dated from See also:March and May, 26 B.C., with the name of a king " Arsaces Philoromaios, " belong to him; on the See also:reverse they show the king seated on the See also:throne, with Tyche stretching out a See also:palm See also:branch towards him.

He was soon expelled again, and brought a son of Phraates into See also:

Spain to Augustus. Augustus gave the boy back to his See also:father, but declined to surrender " the fugitive slave Tiridates " (Justin xlii. 5; Dio liii. 33; cf. Mon. Ancyr. 5, 54; in li. 18 Dio has wrongly placed the surrender of the son in 30 B.C.).

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