Identifier: republicanromehe1914have (find matches)
Title: Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), d. 1913
Subjects: Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Publisher: London, G. Harrap
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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creek and bay ofthe Mediterranean The merchant might resume his business,the noble in his seaside villa could sleep secure, and the multi-tude of Rome had bread. It is to be regretted that Pompeiusshould have stooped from the height of success to an unworthydisplay of his arbitrary temper. The Cretans, hard pressedby Metellus, who was determined to give them a severe lesson,applied to Pompeius, begging him to interpose his authority,and Pompeius, as his superior officer, ordered Metellus at onceto suspend hostiHties. Metellus, who had received his com-mission before the appointment of Pompeius, refused obedience,and an armed coUision between the two generals seemed to beimminent. Happily this danger was averted by a new turnof affairs, which opened up a boundless prospect to the greatsoldier and left Metellus to finish his work in Crete. To under-stand how this came about we must glance briefly at the courseof events in Asia from the close of the First Mithradatic War.4S6 J=^ Artaxata
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LOWER ASIA FOR CAMPAIGNS OF LUCULLUS 8c POMPEIUS 456 LAST ERA OF THE REPUBLIC TiGRANES At this time the greatest potentate in the East was Tigranes,king of Armenia, who for many years past had been pursuinga pohcy of aggression, and had greatly enlarged his dominionsat the expense of the surrounding peoples. Toward the easthis territories extended over a great part of Mesopotamia, whichhe had won from the Parthians, he had availed himself ofthe distracted state of Syria to annex most of what remainedfrom the ancient Seleucid empire, and at the instigation ofMithradates, his father-in-law, he invaded Cappadocia andcarved himself a large portion out of this protected district.In the true style of an Oriental despot he transported a vastmultitude from the conquered cities to form the populationof a new capital, which he built in Upper Mesopotamia, andnamed after himself Tigranocerta. Here he estabHshed him-self in royal state, exacting the obsequious homage of sub-ject princes and assumi

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