and the accession of the next Arsaces whose name has come down to us.

Sanatrodoeces, it has been said, may have been, and may, therefore, well be regarded as, the successor of Mithridates.

But the words of the epitomizer of Trogus, placed at the head of this chapter, forbid the acceptance of this theory.

The epitomizer would not have spoken of "many kings" as intervening between Mithridates II.

and Orodes, if the number had been only three.