battle, and at the same time taking vengeance, as he proceeded, on the
Armenian nobles who had been especially active in opposing Tigranes,
the late Roman puppet-king. His march led him near the spot where the
capitulation of Paetus had occurred in the preceding winter; and it was
while he was in this neighborhood that envoys from the enemy met him
with proposals for an accommodation. Corbulo, who had never shown
himself anxious to push matters to an extremity, readily accepted the
overtures. The site of the camp of Paetus was chosen for the place of
meeting; and there, accompanied by twenty horsemen each, Tiridates and
the Roman general held an interview. The terms proposed and agreed upon
were the same that Nero had rejected; and thus the Parthians could not
but be satisfied, since they obtained all for which they had asked.
Corbulo, on the other hand, was content to have made the arrangement
on Armenian soil, while he was at the head of an intact and unblemished
army, and held possession of an Armenian district; so that the terms
could not seem to have been extorted by fear, but rather to have been
allowed as equitable. He also secured the immediate performance of a
ceremony at which Tiridates divested himself of the regal ensigns and
placed them at the foot of the statue of Nero; and he took security
for the performance of the promise that Tiridates should go to Rome and
receive his crown from the hands of Nero, by requiring and obtaining
one of his daughters as a hostage. In return, he readily undertook that
Tiridates should be treated with all proper honor during his stay at
Rome, and on his journeys to and from Italy, assuring Volagases, who was
anxious on these points, that Rome regarded only the substance, and made
no account of the mere show and trappings of power.

The arrangement thus made was honestly executed. After a delay of about
two years, for which it is difficult to account, Tiridates set out
upon his journey. He was accompanied by his wife, by a number of noble
youths, among whom were sons of Volagases and of Monobazus, and by an
escort of three thousand Parthian cavalry. The long cavalcade passed,
like a magnificent triumphal procession, through two thirds of the
Empire, and was everywhere warmly welcomed and sumptuously entertained.
Each city which lay upon its route was decorated to receive it; and
the loud acclaims of the multitudes expressed their satisfaction at the
novel spectacle. The riders