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    parthian


    1. The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respectable, and upon several occasions, gained very considerable advantages over the Roman armies


    2. At that time, however, Judea was under Parthian control


    3. House of David, proud of their genealogical purity, the exilarchs wore the kamara, the sash of office of the Parthian officials


    4. conditions continued after the replacement of the weak Parthian kings by the much


    5. Ill-timing, however, interfered with the likelihood of Parthian support because Parthia and Rome had just concluded one of their frequent (but short-lived) peace treaties


    6. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions


    7. The Parthian light cavalry were skilled mounted archers


    8. The conversation seemed at an end when the chemist thought fit to shoot a Parthian arrow


    9. The “Parthian batteries” are two clay jars found in 1936 in a tomb near modern-day Baghdad, Iraq


    10. [Note 64: The fact of the above words being italicised suggests the idea that the poet is here firing a Parthian shot at some unfriendly critic

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    "parthian" definitions

    a native or inhabitant of Parthia


    the Iranian language spoken in the Parthian kingdom (250 BC to AD 226)


    pertaining to Parthia or its people or language or culture