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declared, that he would leave a sharper enemy behind him than himself, namely, famine ; and therefore he ap- pointed a guard of ships to he in wait for the merchants that sailed to Bosporus, death being the penalty for any who should attempt to carry provisions thither. Then he set forward with the greatest part of his army, and in his march casually fell in with several dead bodies still uninterred, of those soldiers who were slain with Triarius in his unfortunate engagement with Mithridates ; these he buried splendidly and honorably. The neglect of whom, it is thought, caused, as much as any thing, the hatred that was felt against Lucullus, and alienated the affections of the soldiers from him. Pompe} 7 having now by his forces under the command of Afranius, subdued the Arabians about the mountain Amanus, himself entered Syria, and finding it destitute of any natural and lawful prince, reduced it into the form of a province, as a pos- session of the people of Rome. He conquered also Ju- daea,' and took its king, Aristobulus, captive. Some cities he built anew, and to others he gave their liberty, chas- tising their tyrants. Most part of the time that he spent there was employed in the administration of justice, in deciding controversies of kings and States ; and where he himself could not be present in person, he gave commis- sions to his friends, and sent theui. Thus when there arose a difference betwixt the Armenians and Parthians about some territory, and the judgment was referred to him, he gave a power by commission to three judges and arbiters to hear and determine the controversy. For the reputation of his power was great ; nor was the fame of his justice and clemency inferior to that of his power, and served indeed as a veil for a multitude of faults com- mitted by his friends and familiars. For although it was not in his nature to check or chastise wrongdoers, yet he

himself always treated those that had to do with him in