The bulk of the troops were thus enabled to effect their retreat in safety to Carrhae, where, having the protection of walls, they were, at any rate for a time secure.
It might have been expected that the Romans would here have made a stand.

The siege of a fortified place by cavalry is ridiculous, if we understand by siege anything more than a very incomplete blockade.

And the Parthians were notoriously inefficient against walls.

There was a chance, moreover, that Artavasdes might have been more successful than his ally, and, having repulsed the Parthian monarch, might march his troops to the relief of the Romans.

But the soldiers were thoroughly dispirited, and would not listen to these suggestions.