e would get down from his horse, unless
Izates would get upon his horse again, and go before him. So he complied
with his desire, and leaped upon his horse; and when he had brought him
to his royal palace, he showed him all sorts of respect when they
sat together, and he gave him the upper place at festivals also, as
regarding not his present fortune, but his former dignity, and that upon
this consideration also, that the changes of fortune are common to
all men. He also wrote to the Parthians, to persuade them to receive
Artabanus again; and gave them his right hand and his faith, that he
should forget what was past and done, and that he would undertake for
this as a mediator between them. Now the Parthians did not themselves
refuse to receive him again, but pleaded that it was not now in their
power so to do, because they had committed the government to another
person, who had accepted of it, and whose name was Cinnamus; and that
they were afraid lest a civil war should arise on this account. When
Cinnamus understood their intentions, he wrote to Artabanus himself, for
he had been brought up by him, and was of a nature good and gentle also,
and desired him to put confidence in him, and to come and take his own
dominions again. Accordingly, Artabanus trusted him, and returned home;
when Cinnamus met him, worshipped him, and saluted him as a king, and
took the diadem off his own head, and put it on the head of Artabanus.

3. And thus was Artahanus restored to his kingdom again by the means of
Izates, when he had lost it by the means of the grandees of the kingdom.
Nor was he unmindful of the benefits he had conferred upon him, but
rewarded him with such honors as were of the greatest esteem among them;
for he gave him leave to wear his tiara upright, [6] and to sleep upon
a golden bed, which are privileges and marks of honor peculiar to the
kings of Parthia. He also cut off a large and fruitful country from the
king of Armenia, and bestowed it upon him. The name of the country is
Nisibis, wherein the Macedonians had formerly built that city which they
called Antioch of Mygodonla. And these were the honors that were paid
Izates by the king of the Parthians.

4. But in no long time Artabanus died, and left his kingdom to his son
Bardanes. Now this Bardanes came to Izates, and would have persuaded him
to join him with his army, and to assist him in the war he was preparing
to make with the Romans; but he could not prevail