Partnership
the state or condition of being a partner, associate, or participator with another; joint interest.
An association of two or more persons for the carrying on of any commercial, manufacturing, or other business undertaking, occupation, or calling; or a voluntary, verbal or written contract between two or more persons to joint together their money, labor, goods, skill, etc., or all or any of them, for the prosecution of any business or undertaking upon the understanding that the profits or losses M PARTHENON and the Seleucidæ the Syrian kingstill 256 в. c. when the Parthians established their independence under Arsaces I., from whom all their succeeding monarchs received the name of Arsacidæ.
Under this dynasty, the empire extended from the Indus to the Euphrates, and from the Oxus in the N. to the Persian Gulf in the S. This empire lasted for about 480 years, when the last king, Artabanus, was murdered by Artaxerxes , who, usurping the throne, founded the new Persian empire, called the Sas- , calle re, called the Sassanidæ.