History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ew detachments from the armies of Europe (Dion,lxxv. 12, and C. I. L. iii. 1,193) and also from Africa (L. Renier, Inscr. dAlg. No. 1,182). 2 Eckhel, vii. 1 7G : Profectio Aug.: Momms., Inscr. Neap. No. 1,410. In respect to thiswar, Ilerodian confuses facts, names, dates, and geography. 8 Coin commemorating the tenth salutation of Severus as imperator. 4 A pril, 198. This date is to be inferred from an inscription published by Renier, No. 1,727. COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 T
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ew detachments from the armies of Europe (Dion,lxxv. 12, and C. I. L. iii. 1,193) and also from Africa (L. Renier, Inscr. dAlg. No. 1,182). 2 Eckhel, vii. 1 7G : Profectio Aug.: Momms., Inscr. Neap. No. 1,410. In respect to thiswar, Ilerodian confuses facts, names, dates, and geography. 8 Coin commemorating the tenth salutation of Severus as imperator. 4 A pril, 198. This date is to be inferred from an inscription published by Renier, No. 1,727. COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 507 structed a fleet to convey his heavy baggage, while his soldiers advanced along the river hank. He arrived in this way atBabylon and Scleucia, — cities no longer great except in name,—and seized the capital of the Parthians, whence he carried off ahundred thousand captives. This was the third time within thecentury that the Romans had entered Ctesiphon. The return through the valley of the Tigris was difficult, onaccount of the scarcity of provisions and forage. Like Trajan,. THE PARTHIAN KING ESCAPING FROM Severus besieged the stronghold of Atra2 (El-Hadhr), whose kinghad made an alliance with Niger; and he failed, as did his illus-trious predecessor, notwithstanding the machines of the engineerPrisons. In the midst of this desert it was impossible for thebesieging army to resort to a blockade, — the great method of the 1 Bas-relief from the Arch of Septimius Severus. 2 A few davs march westward of the Tigris. Its ruins still exist, — not, however, asHerodian says, on the top of a high hill. There arc only low hillocks in the region, and somecalcareous rocks. Cf. Layards Nineveh : this author visited El-Hadhr. Dion speaks of twoBieges of Atra, or rather of two attacks made upon the town, — one, perhaps, hy a lieutenantof Severus; the other, by the Emperor himself.
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