| Ex libro CI
Cn. Pompeius
Mithridaten
nocturno proelio victum coegit Bosporon profugere. Tigranen
in deditionem accepit eique ademptis Syria, Phoenice, Cilicia, regnum
Armeniae
restituit.
Coniuratio
eorum
qui in petitione consulatus ambitus damnati erant facta de
interficiendis
consulibus obpressa est.
Cn. Pompeius
cum
Mithridaten persequeretur in ultimas ignotasque gentes penetravit.
Hiberos
Albanosque, qui transitum non dabant, proelio vicit.
Praeterea
fugam
Mithridatis per Colchos Heniochosque et res ab eo in Bosporo gestas
continet.
|
From book 101
[66
BCE] After he had defeated Mithridates
during the night, Gnaeus Pompey forced him to flee to the Bosporan
kingdom. Pompey
accepted the surrender of Tigranes
and restored him to his own kingdom,
Armenia,
after he had deprived him of Syria,
Phoenicia and Cilicia.
There was a
conspiracy
by those who had been running for consul
and had been condemned for bribery. They tried to kill the consuls, but
the [First Catilinarian] conspiracy was suppressed.
[65]
Gnaeus Pompey, pursuing Mithridates, reached the most distant and
hitherto
unknown peoples. The Hiberians and Albanians were defeated in battle
when
they denied him passage.
It [book 101]
also
contains an account of the flight of Mithridates through the country of
the Colchians and Heniochians, and affairs in the Bosporan kingdom.
|
| Ex libro CII
Cn. Pompeius
in
provinciae formam Pontum redegit. Pharnaces,
filius Mithridatis, bellum patri intulit. Ab
eo Mithridates obsessus in regia cum veneno sumpto parum profecisset ad
mortem, a milite Gallo, nomine Bitoco, a quo ut adiuvaret se petierat,
interfectus est.
Cn. Pompeius
Iudaeos
subegit, fanum eorum Hierosolyma, inviolatum ante id tempus, cepit.
L. Catilina
bis
repulsam in petitione consulatus passus cum Lentulo praetore et Cethego
et compluribus aliis coniuravit de caede consulum et senatus, incendiis
urbis et obprimenda re p., exercitu quoque in Etruria
conparato. Ea
coniuratio industria M. Tulli Ciceronis eruta est. Catilina
urbe pulso, de reliquis coniuratis supplicium sumptum est.
|
From book 102
Gnaeus Pompey
organized
Pontus as a province. Pharnaces,
the son of Mithridates, made war against his father and
besieged him in his palace. When the poison Mithridates took did not
kill
him, he asked help from a Gallic soldier named Bitocus, who killed him.
[63]
Gnaeus Pompey subdued the Jews and captured their shrine at Jerusalem,
which had never before been violated [more...].
Lucius
Catilina,
who had twice been defeated during consular elections, conspired with praetor
Lentulus, Cethegus and many others. They wanted to kill the consuls and
senators,
set fire to the city, and overthrow the republic. Their army was ready
in Etruria. The
conspiracy was suppressed by the energy of Marcus Tullius
Cicero. When
Catilina had been expelled from the city, the other conspirators were
executed.
|
| Ex libro CIII
Catilina a C.
Antonio
procos. cum exercitu caesus est.
P. Clodius
accusatus
quod in habitu mulieris in sacrarium, quo virum intrare nefas est, cum
intrasset et uxorem [lacuna] Metelli pontificis
stuprasset, absolutus
est.
C. Pontinus
praetor
Allobrogas qui rebellaverant ad Solonem domuit.
P. Clodius ad
plebem
transiit.
C. Caesar
Lusitanos
subegit. Eoque
consulatus candidato et captante rem p. invadere conspiratio inter tres
civitatis principes facta est, Cn. Pompeium, M. Crassum, C. Caesarem.
Leges
agrariae
a Caesare cos. cum magna contentione invito senatu et altero cos. M.
Bibulo
latae sunt.
C. Antonius
procos.
in Thracia parum prospere rem gessit.
M. Cicero
lege
a P. Clodio tr. pl. lata quod indemnatos cives necavisset in exilium
missus
est.
Caesar in provinciam Galliam profectus
Helvetios, vagam gentem, domuit, quae sedem quaerens per provinciam
Caesaris
Narbonensem iter facere volebat. Praeterea
situm Galliarum continet.
Pompeius de [lacuna] liberis
Mithridatis et Tigrane, Tigranis filio, triumphavit Magnusque
a
tota contione consalutatus est.
|
From book 103
[62]
Catilina
and his army were destroyed by proconsul
Gaius Antonius.
Publius
Clodius,
accused of having entered in woman's dress into a sanctuary that men
were
not allowed to enter, and of violating the wife [lacuna]
of the
priest Metellus, was acquitted.
Praetor Gaius
Pontinus
subdued the rebellious Allobrogians near Solo.
Publius
Clodius
was transferred to the plebs.
[61]
Gaius
[Julius] Caesar subdued the Lusitanians [text]. [60]
When this man was a candidate for the consulship, and wanted
to
seize control of the republic, a pact
was concluded between the three leading citizens, Gnaeus Pompey, Marcus
Crassus, and Gaius Caesar.
[59]
When
Caesar was consul, agrarian laws were passed after much strife, against
the wishes of the Senate and the other consul, Marcus Bibulus.
Proconsul
Gaius
Antonius had little success in his war in Thrace.
[58]
Marcus
Cicero was exiled by a law of the tribune
of the plebs Publius Clodius, because he had ordered the executions of
Roman citizens without trial.
Caesar, who had gone to the Gallic
provinces, subdued the Helvetians, a nomadic tribe that wanted to cross
through Caesar's province Narbonensis, wishing to settle somewhere
else. It
[book 103] also contains an account of the country of Gaul.
When Pompey celebrated a triumph
over the [lacuna], the children of Mithridates, and
Tigranes son
of Tigranes, he was saluted by all those present with the surname The
Great.
|
| Ex libro CIV
Prima pars
libri
situm Germaniae moresque continet.
C. Caesar cum
adversus
Germanos (qui Ariovisto duce in Galliam transcenderant) exercitum
duceret,
rogatus ab Aeduis et Sequanis, quorum ager possidebatur. Trepidationem
militum propter metum novorum hostium ortam adlocutione exercitus
inhibuit
et victos proelio Germanos Gallia expulit.
M. Cicero,
Pompeio
inter alios [se] exerente et T. Annio Milone tr. pl., ingenti gaudio
senatus
ac totius Italiae ab exilio reductus est.
Cn. Pompeio
per
quinquennium annonae cura mandata est.
Caesar
Ambianos,
Suessionas, Viruomanduos, Atrebates, Belgarum populos, quorum ingens
multitudo
erat, proelio victos in deditionem accepit, ac deinde contra Nervios,
unam
ex horum civitatibus, cum magno discrimine pugnavit eamque gentem
delevit,
quae bellum gessit donec ex LX milia armatorum D superessent, ex DC
senatoribus
tres tantum evaderent.
Lege lata de
redigenda
in provinciae formam Cypro et publicanda pecunia regia M. Catoni
administratio
eius rei mandata est.
Ptolemaeus,
Aegypti
rex, ob iniurias quas patiebatur a suis, relicto regno Romam venit.
C. Caesar
Venetos,
gentem Oceano iunctam, navali proelio vicit. Praeterea res a legatis
eius
eadem fortuna gestas continet.
|
From book 104
The first part
of
this book contains an account of the country and customs of Germania.
Gaius Caesar
led
his army against the Germans, who had, commanded by Ariovistus, invaded
Gaul. This had been requested by the Aedui and Sequani, whose country
had
been occupied. With a speech, Caesar suppressed panic among his
soldiers,
caused by fear of the new enemies. Having defeated the Germans in
battle,
he expelled them from Gaul.
[57]
Marcus
Cicero, backed by Pompey, tribune Titus Annius Milo and others,
returned
from exile, amid great rejoicing on the part of the Senate and all
Italy.
The food
supply
was assigned to Gnaeus Pompey for a period of five years.
Caesar
accepted
the surrender of the Belgian tribes of the Ambiani, Suessioni,
Viruomandi,
and Atrebates, whose numbers were very large, after he had defeated
them
in battle. He proceeded against the Nervians, another Belgian tribe,
and
fought a difficult battle against these aggressors, wiping them out so
thoroughly that of 60,000 warriors only 500 survived, and of 600
aristocrats
only 3 [text].
A law was
carried
that Cyprus should be organized as a province and the royal funds
should
be confiscated, and Marcus [Porcius] Cato was sent to administer the
matter.
King Ptolemy
[XII Auletes] of Egypt left his realm and came to Rome after he had
been
maltreated by his subjects.
[56]
Gaius
Caesar defeated the Veneti, a tribe near the Ocean, in a naval battle.
It [book 104] also contains an account of the successful wars of his
deputies.
|
| Ex libro CV
Cum C. Catonis
tribuni
plebis intercessionibus comitia tollerentur, senatus vestem
mutavit. M.
Cato in petitione praeturae praelato Vatinio repulsam tulit.
Idem cum
legem
impediret, qua provinciae consulibus in quinquennium (Pompeio
Hispaniae,
Crasso Syria et Parthicum bellum) dabantur, a C. Trebonio tr. pl.,
legis
auctore, in vincula ductus est.
A. Gabinius
procos.
Ptolemaeum reduxit in regnum Aegypti, eiecto Archelao, quem sibi regem
adsciverant.
Victis
Germanis
in Gallia Caesar Rhenum transcendit et proximam partem Germaniae
domuit,
ac deinde Oceano in Britanniam primo parum prospere tempestatibus
adversis
traiecit, iterum felicius, magnaque multitudine hostium caesa aliquam
partem
insulae in potestatem redegit.
|
From book 105
When
the elections
were vetoed by tribune Gaius Cato, the senators put on their mourning
cloaks. Marcus
Cato ran for praetor, but was defeated. Vatinius was elected.
[55]
When
this same man [Cato] tried to obstruct a law in which provinces were
allotted
to the consuls for five years (Hispania to Pompey, Syria and the Parthian
war to Crassus), he was put into irons by tribune Gaius Trebonius, who
had proposed the law.
[54]
Proconsul
Aulus Gabinius brought Ptolemy back to the kingdom of Egypt, and
expelled
Archelaus, who had proclaimed himself king [as husband of queen Berenice
IV].
After he had
defeated
German tribes in Gaul, Caesar crossed
the Rhine
and
subdued a nearby part of Germania. He proceeded across the Ocean to
Britain,
at first with little success because of bad weather, but on a second
occasion
with better luck. He killed a large number of enemies and subdued a
part
of the island.
|
|