Sanatruces of Parthia

King Sanatruces of Parthia (also Sinatruces or Sanatruk, ca. 157 - 70 BC) ruled the Parthian Empire from c. 77 to c. 70 BC. He was a member of the Arsacid house, who, in the troubled times after the death of Mithridates II in ca. 88 BC was made king by the Sacaraucae Scythians or "Saka", an Indo-European tribe akin to the Parthians who had invaded Iran in about 77 BC ["Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l'est et l'ouest", p181, ISBN 2503516815] . He was eighty years old and reigned seven years; his successor was his son Phraates III.

anatruces in Byzantine tradition

Another Sanatruces (Sanatrucius), the son of Mithridates IV is mentioned as an ephemeral Parthian king in AD 115 by John Malalas, in his "Chronographia".

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*1911
*Lucian, "Macrob.", 15;
*Phlegon of Tralles, "The Olympiads", preserved in Photius, "Bibliotheca", 97.
*Appian, "Mithridates", 104.
*Dio Cassius, xxxvi. 45.