Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the army penetrated as far as Mariba, on the frontierof the country of the Sabeans. XXVII. I have brought Egypt under the dominion of the Romanpeople. Of Greater Armenia, after the murder of its king Artaxias, Imight have made a province, but I chose rather, following the exampleof our ancestors, to give over this kingdom to Tigranes, son of Artavasdes,grandson of king Tigranes, and I employed in this affair Tib. Nero,being at that time my stepson. And afterwards the same people, becomingdisorderly and rebellious, were subdued by my son Caius, and restored bymy orders to king Ariobarzanes, son of the Median king Artabazes, andupon his death to his son Artavasdes. The latter having been killed Isent into the kingdom Tigranes, of the royal race of Armenia. All theprovinces lying beyond the Adriatic Sea eastward, and the Cyrenaica, ingnat part given up to foreign kings, I recovered, as at an earlier period Ihad repossessed Sicily and Sardinia, detached from the Empire by a servilew?i r.
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^ fn Till-: LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. 1()7 XXVIII. In Africa, Sicily, Macedon, the two Spains, Achaia, Asia,Syria, Gallia, Narbonensis, and Pisidia, I have established military colonies.Italy also possesses twenty-eight colonies of the same nature founded byme, which within my lifetime have become very flourishing and populous. XXIX. Many military standards lost by other generals I have recoveredfrom Spain and Graul and from the Dalmatians. The Pafthians I havecompelled to surrender the spoils and standards of three Roman armies,and to implore the friendship of the Roman people. These standardsI have deposited in the sanctuary of the temple of Mars Ultor. XXX. The Pannonian nations, among whom before my administrationno Roman army had ever penetrated, were conquered by Tib. Nero, thenmy stepson and lieutenant; I have made them subject to the Romanpeople and have set back the limits of the province of Illyria as far asthe Danube. A Dacian force having crossed this river, were under myaus

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