 This suggests that the lost "Milisiaka" had for its framing device Aristides himself, retelling what he had been hearing of the goings-on at Miletus.Plutarch, in his "Life of Crassus", explains that, after the defeat of Carrhae in 53 BCE, some Milesian fables were found in the baggage of the Parthians' Roman prisoners.Though the idea of the Milesian tale served as a model for the episodic narratives strung together in "The Satyricon" by Gaius Petronius Arbiter and "The Golden Ass" by Lucius Apuleius (second century CE), neither Aristides's original Greek text nor the Latin translation survived.