BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

 

Isidorus Characenus

floruit ca. 50 a. Chr. n.

 

Βίοι βασιλέων

 

Textus:

Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax

An Account of the Overland Trade Route

Between the Levant and India

The greek text with a translation and

commentary by Wilfred H. Schoff

Philadelphia: Published by the Commercial Museum, 1914

Facsimile: Internet Archive

 

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34. Lucianus Macrob. c. 15

Ἀρταξέρξης ἕτερος Περσῶν βασιλεὺς, ὅν φησιν ἐπὶ τῶν πατέρων ἑαυτοῦ Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνὸς συγγραφεὺς βασιλεύειν, ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐνενήκοντα βιοὺς ἐπιβουλῆι τἀδελφοῦ Γωσίθρου ἐδολοφονήθη.

 

35. Id. ib. c. 18

Γόαισος δὲ, ὥς φησιν Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνὸς, ἐπὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἡλικίας Ὀμανῶν τῆς ἀρωματοφόρου βασιλεύσας πεντεκαίδεκα καὶ ἐκατὸν γεγονὼς ἐτῶν ἐτελεύτησε νόσωι.

 

 

 

34. (Fragment quoted from Lucianus, Macrob. ch. 15.)

Artaxerxes, another king of the Persians, whom Isidore of Charax the historian states to have ruled in the time of his parents, after a life of ninety-three years, was treacherously murdered through a plot of his brother Gosithras.

 

35. (Id. ib. ch. 18.)

Goaesus, so says Isidore of Charax, who in his time was king of the Omani in the Incense Land, after he had lived one hundred and fifteen years, died of disease.