Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Trajan conquered Batnae, Sin-gara, Nisibis, and finally Assyria; but he failed to capture Hatra, anArabian princes stronghold (Fig. 62), the ruins of wliich, surroundedby a wall ten feet thick, with bastions, are still visible in the midstof a plain southeast of Sinjar. The ruins, however, apparentlydate from the later period of the Parthians. Trajan left Hatra un-subdued, and marched against Babylon, and thence across the Tigris ruA.IAN IX ASIA. 251 to Ctesiphon, tlie home of the Parthian rulers. Attainbil of Mesenealso recognized his authority. In the mean time the subjugatedstates again threw off their allegiance, and the Roman generalswere obliged to make the conquest for a second time. Trajan foundit expedient to establish Parthamaspates, a son of Exedares, as rulerin Ctesiphon ; in the following spring he was expelled by Chosroes.During a second siege of Hatra, Trajan was taken sick mth an in-flammation of the bowels, and died at Selinus, in Cilicia, on theeighth of August, 117.
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Fig. 6:2. — Hatra. (After Ross and Rawlinson.) The coins prove that between 130 and 148 there was a VologesesIL, followed by a Vologeses III. (148-191), who restored the Par-thian control in Armenia, and gained a number of ini))ortant victoriesover the Roman armies. The Romans, however, made renewedexertions; and Lucius Verus, with a picked army, succeeded inconcpiering all Mesopotamia as far as the Tigris, lie capturedCtesiphon, and destroyed the palace. On the homeward march apestilence bioke out among the Romans, and nearly annihilatedthe whole host. It was also carried to Ital)-, where, in 165, itcarried off a frightful number of victims. Afterwards, when thecontest arose between Pescennius Niger and Severus for the imperialcrown, Barsemius, the Aral)iaii prince of llati-a, supported by Volo- 252 TUE PARTHIAN EMPIRE. geses IV. (190-208), took the side oi the former; and Severus, afterhe had vanquished liis opponent, penetrated into Armenia, and oncemore brought this region into

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