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218 of Pacorus, was put in his place. This action, taken without consulting the Roman government, may have served as an excuse for the Armenian and Parthian campaigns which followed.

Only after the completion of the Dacian Wars did Trajan find time to devote his attention to the East, where the Armenian situation or the possibilities of further conquest made easy by the state of anarchy in Parthia may have attracted him. In the autumn of 113, perhaps on October 27, the Emperor set sail from Rome. On his arrival at Athens he was met by an embassy from Osroes, who desired peace and requested that Axidares, whom he had by now de-