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Parthians

People / regional collective

Gallic War 8.54 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “After this a decree was passed by the senate, that one legion should be sent by Pompey, and another by Caesar, to the Parthian war. …”

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Gallic War 8.54

Hirtius

After this a decree was passed by the senate, that one legion should be sent by Pompey, and another by Caesar, to the Parthian war. …

Gallic War 8.54

Civil War 1.9

Caesar

… Levies are being held throughout Italy, two legions which had been filched from me under the pretence of a Parthian war are being held back, the state is in arms. …

Civil War 1.9

Gallic War 8.55

Hirtius

He himself set out for Italy; where he was informed on his arrival, that the two legions sent home by him, and which by the senate's decree, should have been sent to the Parthian war, had been delivered over to Pompey, by Caius Marcellus the consul, and were retained in Italy. …

Gallic War 8.55

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