A thousand horseman clad in mail, and a still greater number of light-armed, formed his bodyguard.

At the coronation of a Parthian monarch, it was his hereditary right to place the diadem on the brow of the new sovereign.
When Orodes was driven into banishment it was he who brought him back to Parthia in triumph.

When Seleucia revolted, it was he who at the assault first mounted the breach and, striking terror into the defenders, took the city.

Though less than thirty years of age at the time when he was appointed commander, he was believed to possess, besides these various qualifications, consummate prudence and sagacity.
The force which Orodes committed to his brave and skillful lieutenant consisted entirely of horse.

This was not the ordinary character of a Parthian army, which often comprised four or five times as many infantry as cavalry.