66. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR CONTINUED 210

Command of the Mithridatic War given by the Manilian Law
to Pompey 210

It is opposed by the aristocracy 211

It is supported by Cicero 211

Pompey defeats Mithridates 211

Mithridates retires into the Cimmerian Bosporus 211

Pompey invades Armenia 212

Submission of Tigranes 212

65. Pompey pursues Mithridates 212

He advances as far as the River Phasis 212

He returns to Pontus, which he reduces to the form of
a Roman province 212

64. He marches into Syria, which he makes a Roman province 212

63. He subdues Phoenicia and Palestine 212

He takes Jerusalem 212

Preparations of Mithridates 213

Conspiracy against him 213

His death 213

Pompey settles the affairs of Asia 213

62. He returns to Italy 213

CHAPTER XXXI.

INTERNAL HISTORY, FROM THE CONSULSHIP OF POMPEY AND CRASSUS TO THE
RETURN OF POMPEY FROM THE EAST: THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE.
B.C. 69-61.

C. JULIUS CAESAR--
100. His birth 214
His early history 214
Proscribed by Sulla 215
81. He serves in Asia 215
77. Accuses Dolabella 215
Taken by the Pirates 215
75. Studies in Rhodes 215
68. Quaestor 215
65. Curule AEdile