Ka cika wannan jumla: Bayan da aka kashe Julius Caesar a shekara ta 44 KZ, Quintus Labienus, wani janar na jamhuriya na Roma da kuma jakadan Parthia, ya goyi bayan Brutus da Cassius a cikin
Yaƙin basasa na Liberators; bayan shan kashi Labienus ya shiga cikin Parthians kuma ya taimaka musu wajen mamaye yankunan Roman a 40 KZ. Sojojin Parthia sun haye Kogin Yufiretis kuma Labienus ya sami damar jan hankalin sojojin Romawa na Mark Antony a kewayen Siriya don tarawa don dalilinsa. Parthians sun raba rundunarsu, kuma a karkashin Pacorus sun ci Levant daga gabar Phoenician ta Land of Israel: "Antigonus... ya tayar da Parthians don mamaye Siriya da Falasdinu, [kuma] yahudawa da himma suka tashi don tallafawa zuriyar gidan Maccabean, kuma suka kori Idumeans da aka ƙi tare da sarkin Yahudawa. Yaƙi tsakanin mutanen da Romawa ya fara da gaske, kuma ko da yake Antigonus, sa'ad da Parthians suka naɗa shi sarki, ya ci gaba da ɓata da kuma tsananta wa Yahudawa, yana farin ciki da maido da zuriyar Hasmonean, ya yi tunanin cewa sabon zamanin 'yanci ya zo. Lokacin da Phasael da Hyrcanus II suka tashi a kan jakadancin zuwa ga Parthians, sai Parthians suka kama su. Antigonus, wanda yake wajen, ya yanke kunnuwan Hyrcanus don ya hana shi zama Babban Firist, yayin da aka kashe Phasael.