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Rh menian throne and forced to flee to Syria. Such encroachment could scarcely be tolerated by the Romans, and about 166 another expedition began a march across Mesopotamia. Edessa was besieged, captured, and returned to its former ruler, Macnu VIII, and the Parthian appointee, Waël, disappears. Next Nisibis, which had refused to ally itself with the Romans, was beset both by them and by the plague. One of the Parthian commanders, Osroes, probably the same as the victor over Severianus, saved his life only by swimming the Tigris. Perhaps it was this same expedition which pushed on far enough to the east to enable Verus to strike coins with the legend

In 168, or perhaps a few years later, when Martius Verus was governor of Cappadocia, he sent his gen-