The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.222

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If the period of peace lasted till well after the year 40 B.C., as seems probable, Vonones can hardly have died before that date. The next ruler of eastern Parthia, whoever he was, seems to have reversed his policy and returned to the traditional rôle of the Surens as supporters of the Arsacids, for in 27 B.C. he received Phraates IV when driven out by the usurper Tiridates and restored him to his throne (p. 306). He can have played no part in the East outside of his own kingdom of Seistan; perhaps he did not seek to, or perhaps Spalirises revolted and defeated him; in any event Spalirises seized what of Vonones’ power he could, took the title of Great King, and conferred the same title on his son Azes.³