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21. The war which this Antiochus is alleged to have waged with Pompeius (Appian, Mithr. 106, 117) is not very consistent with the treaty which he concluded with Lucullus (Dio, xxxvi. 4), and his undisturbed continuance in his sovereignty; presumably it has been concocted simply from the circumstance, that Antiochus of Commagene figured among the kings subdued by Pompeius. 22. To this Cicero's reproach presumably points (De Off. iii. 12, 49): -piratas immunes habemus, socios vectigales-; in so far, namely, as those pirate-colonies probably had the privilege of immunity conferred on them by Pompeius, while, as is well known, the provincial communities dependent on Rome were, as a rule, liable to taxation. 23. IV. VIII. Pontus 24. V. IV. Battle at Nicopolis 25. V. II. Defeat of the Romans in Pontus at Ziela 26. V. IV. Pompeius Take the Supreme Command against Mithradates 27. IV. VIII. Weak Counterpreparations of the Romans ff. 28. V. II. Egypt not Annexed 29. V. IV. Urban Communities Notes for Chapter V 1. V. III. Renewal of the Censorship 2. IV. VI. Political Projects of Marius 3. IV. X. Co-optation Restored in the Priestly Colleges 4. IV. VII. The Sulpician Laws 5. IV. X. Permanent and Special -Quaestiones- 6. IV. VI. And Overpowered 7. IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts 8. Any one who surveys the whole state of the political relations of this period will need no special proofs to help him to see that the ultimate object of the democratic machinations in 688 et seq. was not the overthrow of the senate, but that of Pompeius. Yet such proofs are not wanting. Sallust states that the Gabinio- Manilian laws inflicted a mortal blow on the democracy (Cat. 39); that the conspiracy of 688-689 and the Servilian rogation were specially directed against Pompeius, is likewise attested (Sallust Cat. 19; Val. Max. vi. 2, 4; Cic. de Lege Agr. ii. 17, 46). Besides the attitude of Crassus towards the conspiracy alone shows sufficiently that it was directed against Pompeius. 9. V. V. Transpadanes 10. Plutarch, Crass. 13; Cicero, de Lege agr. ii. 17, 44. To this year (689) belongs Cicero's oration -de rege Alexandrino-, which has been incorrectly assigned to the year 698. In it Cicero refutes, as the fragments clearly show, the assertion of Crassus, that Egypt had been rendered Roman property by the testament of king Alexander. This question
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