Our Author has made Use of the licentia poetica in the Management of this Dramatic Piece; and deviates, in a particular or two, from what is agreed on by Historians: The Queen Thermusa being not the Wife of King Artabanus, but (according to Tacitus, Strabo and Josephus) of Phraates; Artabanus being the fourth King of Parthia after him. Such Lapses are not unprecedented among the Poets; and will the more readily admit of an Excuse, when the Voice of History is followed in the Description of Characters.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

Men.

Artabanus

Arsaces

Vardanes

Gotarzes

Barzaphernes

Lysias

Phraates

Bethas

Women.

Thermusa

Evanthe

Cleone

Edessa

Scene

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