A History of Armenia

Nero appointed a legate named lucius sicenius pitus to spearhead operations in armenia. The new commander took two legions and marched them straight toward tegranocerta, which had been seized by the parthians. But after a few easy, but minor victories, he was forced to withdraw when winter came due to an unsteady supply line before reaching the southern capital. When this second parthian army suddenly appeared along the roman armenian border where he was camped for the winter, pitus panicked. Unable to make any headway against corbulo's fortifications in syria, which volagases had been planning to