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144 then governor of Syria, to a conference and turned over to him his sons Seraspadanes, Phraates, Rhodaspes, and Vonones, as well as two of their wives and four of their sons. Throughout their residence at Rome these princes were treated with all respect due their rank, and one of them, Phraates, built a temple at Nemi, dedicated perhaps to the goddess Isis.

"Who fears the Parthian … while Augustus lives?" boldly sang Horace about this time, but others of his poems both earlier and later betray a lively interest in the East not unmixed with that emotion. In Parthia itself the surrender of the standards aroused further animosity against Phraates and provided additional fuel for the discontent already present. Josephus mentions a Parthian king named Mithradates who was in power sometime between 12 and 9 and who must represent some opposition of which all other record is lost.