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18 center of Syrinx was taken after a siege of some duration, and all the Greek inhabitants were put to death by the Parthians just before the town was carried by assault. What happened thereafter is uncertain, but Antiochus found it prudent to make peace and a treaty of alliance with Artabanus. Twenty-one years later Antiochus met his death in a vain attempt to recoup his fortune by the sack of a temple of Bel in Elymais. We know nothing more of Artabanus I except that his reign is conventionally represented as ending in 191

Priapatius, the succeeding monarch, ruled for fifteen years, but beyond this fact our sources are silent. He left two sons, Mithradates and Phraates. As the latter was the elder, he inherited the throne at his father's death, as was the Parthian custom.