How To Use Parthia In A Sentence
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Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
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Even as an arrow through a cloud, darting from the string when Parthian hath poisoned it with bitter gall, Parthian or Cydonian, and sped the immedicable shaft, leaps through the swift shadow whistling and unknown; so sprung and swept to earth the daughter of Night.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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The Chinese army made an alliance with the Parthians and established some forts at a distance of a few days march from the Parthian capital Ctesiphon, planning to hold the region for several years.
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Hatra's remains reflect the eclectic mix of Assyrian, Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman styles that set the stage for early Islamic architecture.
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Any man who burns his picket stake, section of breastworks, or pilum shaft will be flogged and beheaded—we may need them to fight Parthian raids off.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Taking a middle point of time between the Parthian revolution and the fatal overthrow of Forum Terebronii, we may fix upon the reign of Philip the Arab, [who naturalized himself in Rome by the appellation of Marcus Julius,] as the epoch from which the Roman empire, already sapped and undermined by changes from within, began to give way, and to dilapidate from without.
The Caesars
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The [6533] Parthians of old were so sottish in this kind, they would rather lose a victory, nay lose their own lives, than fight in the night, 'twas against their religion.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Here the Parthians had once gloried and drunk deep in the pantheistic heart of their empire.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The Tibetans, for example, translated “tayi” as “stag-gzig” (pronounced “tazig”), undoubtedly deriving from the Middle Persian “tazig” or the Parthian “tazhig.”
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)
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Most structures were built in limestone gypsum and are an eclectic mix of Assyrian, Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman styles.
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In Judaea the procurators who replaced the deceased King Agrippa I in 44 proved unsatisfactory, and by 54 Claudius' eastern governors had allowed the Parthians to gain control of Greater Armenia, a serious blow to Roman prestige.
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The Parthian Empire was limitrophe with India and possibly his authority extended beyond the Indus.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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But the Romans had every legionary trained in the use of the javelin pilum and and lots of archer auxiliary mostly from the east - light mounted archers with composite or recurve bows from Numidia, Osrhoene and Parthia, foot archers from Syria, even specialised slingers from the Balearic isles.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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Parthian language inscription that accompanies it, the term aryān describes Iran.
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Parthian archeology
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During the Parthian period, Hellenistic customs partially gave way to a resurgence of Persian culture.
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Here the Parthians had once gloried and drunk deep in the pantheistic heart of their empire.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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We drove two hundred kilometers to Bam, a sprawling walled city and citadel begun two thousand years ago by the Parthians.
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Pacorus, the son of Orodes, the King of Parthia, has been killed in order to revenge the death of Marcus Crassus.
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The Prince of Parthia, having completed his evening devotions, folded his shawl, kissing its fringes.
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Hatra's remains reflect the eclectic mix of Assyrian, Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman styles that set the stage for early Islamic architecture.
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In the fall, Caesar makes preparations for a campaign in Parthia the next year and makes his will, appointing his great-nephew, Octavian, as his primary heir, allegedly adopting him as his son.
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He is known for his only work the Meditations or Writings to Himself, written, according to critics, in the midst of the Parthian war when he might have better used his time directing the army.
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As with nomads generally, it was always easy for a Parthian king to shark up a great army and achieve a striking victory; but as a rule impossible to keep the horde so sharked up thogether for solid conquests; and above all, it was impossible to organize anything.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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He accomplished this largely with local levies and displayed Roman power to the eastern kingdoms, including (for the first time) Parthia.
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Greeks (under Alexander the Great), Persians, Medians, Sassanians, Parthians warred there.