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Arsaces (the Parthian king)

Arsaces

also: Arsacen, Arsaces

Arsaces, the dynastic name of the kings of Parthia, used by Caelius as shorthand for the Parthian monarch and his capital (Fam. 8.14): capturing "Arsaces" stands for a complete conquest of Parthia.

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