#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

6869.356 - 6890.727 Gregory Aldrete

And this is the most humiliating thing that can happen to a Roman legion, to have its eagles captured. And Augustus desperately wanted to negotiate with the Parthians to get these eagles returned. Okay, this was his big diplomatic thing. So he was constantly sending these embassies to Parthia. On one of these embassies, he sent along as a gift to the Parthian king a slave woman named Musa.