Seleucus
3. The second son of Antiochus VII. Sidetes, and elder brother of Antiochus Cyzicenus. In the battle against the Parthians, in which Antiochus Sidetes was slain, B. C. 128, Seleucus was taken prisoner: he was kindly received by the Parthian monarch, and treated with royal magnificence; but it does not appear that he ever regained his liberty (Euseb. Arm. p. 167). A passage of Posidonius (apud Athen. iv. p. 153), which had been referred by Froelich and other writers to SELEUCUS CALLINICUS, evidently relates to the captivity of this Seleucus, though Athenaeus inadvertently gives him the title of king. (Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift. p. 300.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.