A child's history of Rome
John Bonner
eBook
". These horsemen would hover round the Romans like musquitoes, harassing them, and cutting off small parties: when the Romans turned to attack them, they would lash their horses and tear off; and while the horses were at full speed the riders would turn round and shoot their arrows, or throw their javelins with such surprising aim that they hardly ever missed, After Crassus had fought one battle and lost a great many men, the Parthian general asked him to a feast, in order, as he said, to arrange matters. He, poor simple man, went; and while he was admiring the splendid way in which the Parthian lived, and his mouth was watering at the sight of the wealth and luxury he saw, he was stabbed to death. The Parthians cut off his head; and their cruel chief pried open his teeth, and poured molten gold into his mouth, saying, "Thou wast greedy of gold, now glut thyself!"(...)".