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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8295797, member: 99456"]Thanks [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]!  Osroes II (brother of Vologases V) also appears to have accompanied Septimius Severus in his attacks on Parthia. Cassius Dio reports the connection to the brother of Vologases: "As the Parthians did not await his arrival but retired homeward (their leader was Vologaesus, whose brother was accompanying Severus), he constructed boats on the Euphrates and proceeded forward partly by sailing and partly by marching along the river. The boats thus built were exceedingly swift and speedy and well constructed, for the forest along the Euphrates and that region in general afforded him an abundant supply of timber. Thus he soon had seized Seleucia and Babylon, both of which had been abandoned. Later, upon capturing Ctesiphon, he permitted the soldiers to plunder the entire city, and he slew a vast number of people, besides taking as many as a hundred thousand captives."- Cassius Dio, Roman History, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/76*.html#9.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/76*.html#9.1" rel="nofollow">Book LXXVI 9.1</a>[/QUOTE]