n the south-west side. Before it enters the
sea, it is joined by the Cyrus, now the Cur.]

[Footnote 402: See the Life of Sertorius, c. 3. The rout of this large
army of Tigranes is described by Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 85). The
day was the 6th of October, and the year B.C. 69. The loss that is
reported in some of these ancient battles seems hardly credible; but
it is explained here. There was in fact no battle: the enemy were
struck with a panic and fled. An immense multitude if seized with
alarm requires no enemy to kill them. The loss of life that may occur
in a frightened crowd is enormous.]

[Footnote 403: See chapter 42.]

[Footnote 404: See Life of Sulla, c. 26, Notes.]

[Footnote 405: This part of Livius is lost; but it belonged to the
ninety-eighth book, as we see from the Epitome.]

[Footnote 406: The capture is described by Appian (_Mithridat. War_,
c, 86), and by Dion Cassius (35, c. 2).]

[Footnote 407: Compare Appian, c. 87, and Dion Cassius (35, c. 3).
Sallustius in the fourth book of his History has given a long letter,
which we may presume to be his own composition, from Mithridates to
Arsakes, this Parthian king, in which he urges him to fight against
the Romans. (_Fragmenta Hist._ ed. Corte.)]

[Footnote 408: Lucullus was marching northward, and he had to ascend
from the lower country to the high lands of Armenia, where the seasons
are much later than in the lower country. He expected to find the corn
ripe. Nothing precise as to his route can be collected from Plutarch.
He states that Lucullus came to the Arsanias, a river which he must
cross before he could reach Artaxata. Strabo (p. 528) describes
Artaxata as situated on a peninsula formed by the Araxes (Aras) and
surrounded by the stream, except at the isthmus which joined it to the
mainland; the isthmus was defended by a ditch and rampart. The ruins
called Takt Tiridate, the Throne of Tiridates, which have been
supposed to represent Artaxata, are twenty miles from the river, and
the place where they stand owed its strength solely to the
fortifications. Below the junction of the Zengue and Aras, which unite
near Erivan, "the river (Aras) winds very much, and at least twenty
positions nearly surrounded by the river presented themselves."
Colonel Monteith, who makes this remark (_London Geog. Journal_, iii.
47), found no ruins on the banks of the river which answered to the
description of Artaxata; for what he describes as near the remain