Note 105 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

This is shown by the accounts as to Carinus (cont. of Dio, p. 8) and as to Rufinus (P. 106, note 2). That after the death of Odaenathus Heraclianus, a general acting on Gallienus’s orders against the Persians, was attacked and conquered by Zenobia (vita Gallieni, 13, 5), is in itself not impossible, seeing that the princes of Palmyra possessed de iure the chief command in all the East, and such an action, even if it were suggested by Gallienus, might be treated as offending against this right, and this would clearly indicate the strained relation; but the authority vouching it is so bad that little stress can be laid on it.