Note 67 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

As the wars against the Arabians and the Adiabenians were in fact directed against the Parthians, it was natural that the titles Parthicus, Arabicus, and Parthicus Adiabenicus, should on that account be conferred on the emperor; they are also so found, but usually Parthicus is omitted, evidently because, as the biographer of Severus says (c. 9), excusavit Parthicum nomen, ne Parthos lacesseret. With this agrees the notice certainly belonging to the year 195 in Dio, lxxv. 9, 6, as to the peaceful agreement with the Parthians and the cession of a portion of Armenia to them.