CHAPTER XI.
_Accession of Orodes I.Expedition of Crassus.

His fate.

Retaliatory inroad of the Parthians into Syria under Pacorus, the son of Orodes.
Defeat of Pacorus by Cassius.

His recall.

End of the first War with Rome._ The complete triumph of Orodes over Mithridates, and his full establishment in his kingdom, cannot be placed earlier than B.C.56, and most probably fell in B.C.55.