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Our Author has made Use of the licentia poetica in the Management
of this Dramatic Piece; and deviates, in a particular
or two, from what is agreed on by Historians: The Queen Thermusa
being not the Wife of King Artabanus, but (according to Tacitus,
Strabo and Josephus) of Phraates; Artabanus being the fourth King
of Parthia after him. Such Lapses are not unprecedented among the
Poets; and will the more readily admit of an Excuse, when the Voice
of History is followed in the Description of Characters.
