Artabanus had now no resources but in some foreigners who guarded
his person, men exiled from their own homes, who had no perception of honour,
or any scruple about a base act, mere hireling instruments of crime. With
these attendants he hastened his flight into the remote country on the
borders of Scythia, in the hope of aid, as he was connected by marriage
alliances with the Hyrcanians and Carmanians. Meantime the Parthians, he
thought, indulgent as they are to an absent prince, |