2. In the five hundred and thirty-eighth year of the era of
Seleucus. Agathias, 1. ii. p. 63. This great event (such is
the carelessness of the Orientals) is placed by Eutychius as
high as the tenth year of Commodus, and by Moses of Chorene
as low as the reign of Philip. Ammianus Marcellinus has so
servilely copied (xxiii. 6) his ancient materials, which are
indeed very good, that he describes the family of the
Arsacides as still seated on the Persian throne in the
middle of the fourth century.