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HRAATES IV came into power shortly before 37 Not long thereafter he attempted to hasten the death of his aged father by a dose of aconite. When this failed he resorted to the more certain method of strangulation. To make his position more secure, he shortly murdered his brothers and was thus apparently without opposition. But soon he found himself compelled to remove numbers of prominent Parthians, while the remainder fled to refuge among various peoples and in distant cities.