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Rh which show an intimate knowledge of eastern affairs. Martial also has numerous historical references to the East, and in the poems of Juvenal there is clear evidence of a shift in attitude toward the oriental provincial after the accession of Hadrian. "By's mark your horse you'll own, by's tiara a Parthian's known," said some writer of Anacreontics about this time.

In the centuries which followed, the references to the East became more and more stereotyped. Tertullian, Philostratus the son of Nervianus, M. Minucius Felix(?), Oppian, all of whom probably lived within the Parthian period, carry on the tradition. Still later writers continue in the same strain or occasionally quote from works now lost. Even