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Phraates IV

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Phraates IV (lived 1st century BC)

King of Parthia (modern northeastern Iran) 38–32 BC, son and successor of Orodes II, whom he murdered.

In 36 BC he defeated the Romans under Mark Antony but in 20 BC, when his throne was unstable and his infant son had been kidnapped, he appealed to the emperor Augustus, and in exchange for his son, the emperor obliged him to restore the Roman standards captured at Crassus' defeat at Carrhae 53 BC. Phraates was later poisoned by his wife and son.



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