Seleucia on Tigris had become virtually a frontier city facing an Iranian and parthian peril which the imperial incapacity of the Seleucids allowed to develop, and even Rome would never dispel.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
They struck what are termed the Indo-Scythian and Indo-parthian coins bearing names in legible Greek legends-Manes, Azes, Azilises, Gondophares, Abdagases.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
Artaban joined company with a group of people from his own country, parthian Jews who had come up to keep the Passover, and inquired of them the cause of the tumult, and where they were going.
"The Story of the Other Wise Man"
Henry Van Dyke
