Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- BOOK FIFTH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILITARY MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I MARCUS LEPIDUS AND QUINTUS SERTORIUS
- CHAPTER II RULE OF THE SULLAN RESTORATION
- CHAPTER III THE FALL OF THE OLIGARCHY AND THE RULE OF POMPEIUS
- CHAPTER IV POMPEIUS AND THE EAST
- CHAPTER V THE STRUGGLE OF PARTIES DURING THE ABSENCE OF POMPEIUS
- CHAPTER VI RETIREMENT OF POMPEIUS AND COALITION OF THE PRETENDERS
CHAPTER II - RULE OF THE SULLAN RESTORATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- BOOK FIFTH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILITARY MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I MARCUS LEPIDUS AND QUINTUS SERTORIUS
- CHAPTER II RULE OF THE SULLAN RESTORATION
- CHAPTER III THE FALL OF THE OLIGARCHY AND THE RULE OF POMPEIUS
- CHAPTER IV POMPEIUS AND THE EAST
- CHAPTER V THE STRUGGLE OF PARTIES DURING THE ABSENCE OF POMPEIUS
- CHAPTER VI RETIREMENT OF POMPEIUS AND COALITION OF THE PRETENDERS
Summary
When the suppression of the Cinnan revolution, which threatened the existence of the senate, rendered it possible for the restored senatorial government to devote the requisite attention to the internal and external security of the empire, various matters presented themselves, the settlement of which could not be postponed without injuring the most important interests and allowing present inconveniences to grow into future dangers. Apart from the very serious complications in Spain, it was absolutely necessary effectually to check the barbarians in Thrace and the regions of the Danube, whom Sulla on his march through Macedonia had only been able slightly to chastise (iii. 309), and to regulate, by military intervention, the disorderly state of things along the northern frontier of the Greek peninsula; thoroughly to suppress the bands of pirates infesting the seas everywhere, but especially the eastern waters; and to introduce better order into the unsettled relations of Asia Minor. The peace which Sulla had concluded in 670 with Mithra-dates, king of Pontus (iii. 308), and of which the treaty with Murena in 673 (iii. 345) was essentially a repetition, bore throughout the stamp of a provisional arrangement to meet the exigencies of the moment; and the relations of the Romans with Tigranes, king of Armenia, with whom they had de facto waged war, remained wholly untouched in this peace.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 37 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1866