DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY
Herbert Baldwin Foster translation
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Metellus subdues Crete by force (chapters 1, 2)[1]
Mithridates and Tigranes renew the war (chapter 3).
Lucullus does not take advantage of his victory: a successor is appointed: he captures Tigranocerta (chapter 4).
Arsaces, the Parthian, lends aid to neither party (chapter 5).
Lucullus, after a rather disastrous conflict, besieges and captures Nisibis (chapters 6-8).
Meanwhile he loses the Armenias: Fabius is conquered (chapters 10, 11).
Triarius follows Mithridates to Comana: is afterwards overcome by him (chapters 12-15).
Uprising in Lucullus's army: Mithridates regains everything (chapters 16-19).
Insolence of the pirates (chapters 20-23).
The consequent war, in spite of opposition on the part of many, is by the Gabinian law entrusted to Pompey and is very quickly brought to an end (chapters 23-37).
Cornelian laws in regard to canvassing for office and edicts of praetors: the Roscian in regard to seats for the knights: the Manilian in regard to the voting of freedmen (chapters 38-42).
The Mithridatic war by the Manilian law is given in charge of Pompey (chapters 43, 44).
Pompey vanquishes Mithridates in a night battle (chapters 45-50).
Tigranes, the father, surrenders himself: his son is put in chains (chapters 51-53).
An attack of the Albani is repulsed (chapter 54).
DURATION OF TIME.
Q. Hortensius, Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Coss. (B.C. 69 = a.u. 685.)
L. Caecilius Metellus (dies,[2] then) Q. Marcius Rex alone.(B.C. 68 = a.u. 686.)
M. Acilius Glabrio, C. Calpurnius Piso. (B.C. 67 = a.u. 687.)
L. Volcatius Tullus, M. Aemilius Lepidus. (B.C. 66 = a.u. 688.)