Macrinus and the Parthians

The lifelong juris was forced to don armor to go out and meet them. The legions were by this time pretty cocky about their ability to handle the parthians. Macrinus, who had once seemed at least an acceptable alternative to caracala, was now proving to be nothing of the sort. He returned the hostages to dacia, appointed the son of the man caracala had imprisoned to take over the throne of armenia. And almost immediately after the tenager history calls eligobolus won the throne, even the legion that had been the first to support him was ready to revolt against him.