Classical Antiquity

Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, 165?-235?; Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906 [Translator]· 4 chapters· 125,235 words

The consequent war, in spite of opposition on the part of many, is by the Gabinian law entrusted to Pompey and is very quickly brought to an end (chapters 23-37).

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1. Book Forty-four

The consequent war, in spite of opposition on the part of many, is by the Gabinian law entrusted to Pompey and is very quickly brought to an end (chapters 23-37).

2. chapter 107. Stratonice had betrayed to Pompey a treasurehouse on the

sole condition that if he should capture Xiphares, a favorite son of hers, he should spare him. This disloyalty to Mithridates enraged the latter, who gained possession of the y...

4. chapter 17; Book 44, chapter 45; Book 44, chapter 46. The same rule for

[Footnote 86: The last three words of this sentence are not found in the MS., but as a correlative clause of contrast is evidently needed to complete the sense, this, or somethi...

3. chapter 26), we read of "Claudius Marcellus, cousin of the previous

[Footnote 72: This couplet is from an unknown play of Sophocles, according to both Plutarch and Appian. Plutarch, in his extant works, cites it three times (Life of Pompey, chap...