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10.
Per idem tempus legati Parthorum ad expetendum, ut
rettuli, Meherdaten missi senatum ingrediuntur mandataque
in hunc modum incipiunt: non se foederis ignaros nec
defectione a familia Arsacidarum venire, set filium Vononis,
nepotem Phraatis accersere adversus dominationem Gotarzis
nobilitati plebique iuxta intolerandam. iam fratres, iam
propinquos, iam longius sitos caedibus exhaustos; adici
coniuges gravidas, liberos parvos, dum socors domi, bellis
infaustus ignaviam saevitia tegat. veterem sibi ac publice
coeptam nobiscum amicitiam, et subveniendum sociis virium
aemulis cedentibusque per reverentiam. ideo regum obsides
liberos dari ut, si domestici imperii taedeat, sit regressus ad
principem patresque, quorum moribus adsuefactus rex melior
adscisceretur.
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