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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4673747, member: 99456&quot;]Nice Parthians!&nbsp; to your question on Meherdates: he drifted into historical oblivion, is the only answer I have.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what Tacitus had to say about him, betrayed by Parraces:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Meherdates now listened to the promises of his father&#039;s vassal Parraces, and, by an act of perfidy on his part, was thrown into chains and surrendered to the victor (Gotarzes II); who, upbraiding him as no relative of his, nor a member of the Arsacian house, but an alien and a Roman, struck off his ears and commanded him to live — an advertisement of his own mercy and of our dishonour.&quot;</p><p>- Tacitus, <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/12A*.html#14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/12A*.html#14" rel="nofollow">Annals, XII.14</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know more about where he or his descendents may have gone from there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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