centurion named Sentius, dispatched earlier in the campaign as an envoy to Mebarsapes, ruler of Adiabene, was imprisoned in the fortress of Adenystrae (Dunaisir?).[1] When the Roman advance swept through the country this centurion raised a revolt among the captives there, killed the commander of the garrison, and opened the gates to the Romans. Mebarsapes was probably forced to withdraw across the Tigris to Adiabene proper.[2] Singara (Sindjar),[3] Libana,[4] and possibly also Thebeta[5] were taken without fighting by Lucius Quietus, that invaluable Moorish veteran of the Dacian Wars. Mannus, said to have ruled a part of "Arabia" near Edessa, furnished Mebarsapes with troops, all of which were lost in action against the Romans.[6] Some unknown ruler, who had sworn oaths and been pardoned by Trajan, later fled to Mannus.[7]
- ↑ Ibid. 22. 3. The fragment is probably out of place. Adenystrae was identified by G. Hoffmann in ZDMG, XXXII (1878), 741, as Dunaisir (a site now occupied by Tell Ermen and Koçhisar) southwest of Mardin; cf. Ritter, Erdkunde, XI, 366 and 374.
- ↑ As Longden, "Parthian Campaigns of Trajan," JRS, XXI (1931), 11, infers from Dio Cass. lxviii. 22.
- ↑ Arrian Parthica fr. 50; Dio Cass. lxviii. 22.
- ↑ Arrian Parthica ix. fr. 7. Cf. Libba in Polyb. v. 51. 2, also PW, art. "Labbana."
- ↑ Thebetha or Thebida in Arrian Parthica xi. fr. 11, Thebata in Pliny Hist. nat. vi. 120, Thebeta in Peutinger Table between Nisibis and Singara; see also Amm. Marcel. xxv. 9. 3.
- ↑ Dio Cass. lxviii. 22. 1.
- ↑ Arrian Parthica fr. 49.
