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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: happy in them; fince they were only afked an empty hame and title to things which it- was not in their power to give, and the king in return would fupply them with what they moft wanted, But Sertorius would by no means agree to it. He faid, he had no objection to that prince's having Bithynia and Cappa- docia, countries accuftomed to kingly government, and not belonging to the Romans by any juft title; but as to a province to which the Romans had an undeniable claim; a province which they had been deprived of by Mithridates, which he afterwards loft to Fimbria, and at laft had quitted upon the peace with Sylla, he could never confent that he fhould be put in pofleffion of it again. Rome, faid he, ought to have her power extended by my victories, and it is not my right to rife to power at her expence. A man who has any dignity of fentiment, fhould Ohv quer with honour, and not ufe any bafe means even to fave his life. Mithridates was perfectly aftonifhed at this anfwer, and thus communicated his furprize to his friends: What orders would Sertorius give us, when feated ' in the fenate-houfe at Rome, if now, driven as he is to the coafts of the Atlantic Ocean, he prefcribes bounds to our empire, and threatens us with war if we make any attempt upon Afia? The treaty, however, went on, and was fworn to. Mithridates was to have Cappadocia and Bithynia, and Sertorius to fupply him with a general and fome troops; the king, On the other hand, was to furnifh Sertorius with three thoufand talents, and forty fhips of war. The general whom Sertorius fent into Afia, was a fenator who had taken refuge with him, named Marcus Marius. When Mithridates, by his afliftance, had taken fome cities in Afia, he permitted that officer to enter them with his rods and axes, and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217845366 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217845363 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $22.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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