haps it was at Nisibis that the "Arabians" (of Hatra?) sent envoys with more reasonable offers than they had made before. The offers were refused, since the rulers had not come themselves. Severus remained at Nisibis, but divided his army into various commands under T. Sextius Lateranus,[1] Tib. Claudius Candidus,[2] P. Cornelius Anullinus,[3] Probus,[4] and Laetus,[5] who proceeded to devastate the country round about. Three divisions, those under Anullinus, Probus, and Laetus, were sent to one of the districts of Mesopotamia, Ἀρχή (unidentified).[6] Severus received three imperial salutations and took the titles "Parthicus Arabicus" and "Parthicus Adiabenicus,"[7] since he had conquered the middle Euphrates and Adiabene. "Parthicus (Maximus)" he declined,[8] preferring no doubt to assume that honor after the
- ↑ PW, art. "Sextius," No. 27.
- ↑ PW, art. "Claudius," No. 96; CIL, II, No. 4114 = Dessau 1140.
- ↑ PW, art. "Cornelius," No. 58.
- ↑ Possibly the son-in-law of Severus; see Spart. Severus 8. 1.
- ↑ PW, art. "Laetus," No. 1. He is not yet identified.
- ↑ Dio Cass. lxxv. 3. 2 (Loeb, IX, p. 198). Hatra, Adiabene, Arbelitis, Asicha near Zaitha, and the Archene of Pliny Hist. nat. vi. 128 have been suggested as emendations.
- ↑ CIL, VIII, No. 306, and VI, No. 954 = Dessau 417 f.; Mattingly and Sydenham, Rom. Imp. Coin, IV, 97 f., Nos. 55 and 62 f., probably issued in 195. The abbreviated titles "Arabicus" and "Adiabenicus" appear frequently; see ibid., pp. 96 ff., Nos. 41, 58, 63a, 64, and 76, issued 195–97.
- ↑ Spart. Severus 9. 10; cf. below, p. 260.
