ORODES, a prince of Parthia, who murdered his brother Mithridates, and ascended his throne. He defeated Crassus the Roman triumvir, and poured melted gold down the throat of his fallen enemy, to reproach him for his avarice and ambition. He followed the fortune of Cassius and Brutus at Philippi. It is said, that when Orodes became old and infirm, his 30 children disputed in his presence the right to the succession. Phratres, the eldest of them, obtained the crown from his father; and, to hasten him out of the world, he attempted to poison him. The poison had no effect; and Phratres, still determined on his father's death, strangled him with his own hands, about 36 years before the Christian era. Orodes had reigned about 50 years.