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Rh in power after his marriage to his mother, an act which his subjects did not approve. In 4 he was either killed or driven into Syria, where he died shortly afterward. The nobles called in a prince of the Arsacid family named Orodes (III), whose violent temper and great cruelty made him intolerable. Another insurrection followed, and Orodes was murdered at a festival or while hunting about 6.

Ambassadors were then dispatched to Rome, whence they were sent to Tiberius, who was probably in Germany. They requested the return of one of the sons of Phraates IV; and Vonones, the eldest, was sent. The Parthians were not long satisfied, for they were irked by the western manners and friends their new sovereign had acquired at Rome.