The citadel, however, which had been closed by an intrepid band
of youths, was not stormed without a struggle They even ventured on an
engagement under the walls, but were driven back within their fortifications
and succumbed at last only to our siege-works and to the swords of furious
assailants. The success was the easier, as the Parthians were
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distracted by a war with the
Hyrcanians, who had sent to the Roman emperor, imploring alliance, and
pointing to the fact that they were detaining Vologeses as a pledge of
amity. When these envoys were on their way home, Corbulo, to save them from
being intercepted by the enemy's picquets after their passage of the
Euphrates, gave them an escort, and conducted them to
the shores of the
Red Sea, whence, avoiding Parthian
territory, they returned to their native possessions.
