Internally, the state was agitated by constant commotions from the claims of various pretenders to the sovereignty: externally, it was kept in continual alarm by the Egyptians, Arabians, or Romans.
During the sixty years which elapsed between the return of Demetrius to his kingdom and the conversion of Syria into a Roman province, she ceased wholly to be formidable to her neighbors.

Her flourishing period was gone by, and a rapid decline set in, from which there was no recovery.

It is surprising that the Romans did not step in earlier and terminate a rule which was but a little removed from anarchy.

Rome, however, had other work on her hands; and the Syrian kingdom continued to exist till B.C.65, though in a feeble and moribund condition.
But Phraates could not, without prophetic foresight, have counted on such utter prostration following as the result of a single--albeit a terrible--blow.

Accordingly, we find him still exhibiting a dread of the Seleucid power even after his great victory.