Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Pashure pokunge Julius Caesar aurayiwa muna 44 B.C.E., Quintus Labienus, mukuru mukuru weRoma weRepublican uye mumiririri kuvaParthia, akatsigira Brutus naCassius muhondo yevagari vomunyika yeVasununguri
; pashure pokukundwa kwavo Labienus akabatana nevaPartian ndokuvabatsira mukupinda munharaunda dzeRoma muna 40 BCE. Mauto eParthia akayambuka rwizi rwaYufratesi uye Labienus akakwanisa kunyengedza varwi veRoma vaMark Antony vakapoteredza Siria kuti vabatane naye. VaParthia vakakamura uto ravo, uye pasi paPacorus vakakunda Levant kubva kumhenderekedzo yeFenikiya kuburikidza neNyika yaIsraeri: Antigonus... akamutsa vaParthia kuti vapinde muSyria nePalestine, [uye] vaJudha nomwoyo wose vakasimuka kuti vatsigire chizvarwa cheimba yaMaccabean, uye vakadzinga vaIdumeya vaivengwa namambo wavo wechiJudha aiva chidhori. Kurwisana pakati pevanhu nevaRoma kwakanga kwatanga nomwoyo wose, uye kunyange zvazvo Antigonus, paakaiswa pachigaro choumambo nevaParthia, akapfuurira kuparadza nokutambudza vaJudha, achifara nokudzorerwa kwedzinza revaHasmonean, akafunga kuti nguva itsva yokuzvimiririra yakanga yasvika. Apo Phasael naHyrcanus II vakaenda kunoshanyira vaParthia, vaParthia vakavabata. Antigonus, uyo akanga aripo, akagura nzeve dzaHyrcanus kuti amuite asina kukodzera kuva Mupristi Mukuru, nepo Phasael akaurayiwa.