Note 62 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

Syria was administered when the war broke out by L. Attidius Cornelianus (C. I. Gr. 4661 of the year 160; vita Marci, 8; C. I. L. iii. 129 of the year 162), after him by Julius Verus (C. I. L. iii. 199, probably of the year 163) and then by Avidius Cassius presumably from the year 164. The statement that the other provinces of the East were assigned to Cassius’s command (Philostratus, vit. Soph. i. 13; Dio, lxxi. 3), similarly to what was done to Corbulo as legate of Cappadocia, can only relate to the time after the departure of the emperor Verus; so long as the latter held the nominal chief command there was no room for it.