had sent him, and furthermore by means of the money which came to him from her.  So he carried on marauding expeditions until Staius got together a fleet, and sailing into the harbor of Laodicea vanquished the ships that moved out to meet him, and barred Dolabella from the sea also.  Then, prevented on both sides from bringing up supplies, he was led by lack of necessaries to make a sortie.  However, he was quickly hurled back within the fortress, and seeing that it was being betrayed he feared that he might be taken alive, and so despatched himself.  His example was followed by Marcus Octavius, his lieutenant.  These were deemed worthy of burial by Cassius, although they had cast out Trebonius unburied.  The men who had participated in the campaign with them and survived obtained both safety and amnesty, in spite of having been regarded as enemies by the Romans at home.  Nor yet did the Laodiceans suffer any harm beyond being obliged to contribute money.  But for that matter no one else, though many subsequently plotted against Cassius, was chastised.

[B.C. 42 (a. u. 712)]

[-31-] While this was going on the people of Tarsus had attempted to keep from the passage through the Taurus Tillius Cimber, an assassin of Caesar who was then governing Bithynia and was hurrying forward to help Cassius.  Out of fear, however, they abandoned the spot and at the time made a truce with him, because they thought him strong, but afterward they perceived the small number of his soldiers and neither took him into their city nor furnished him provisions.  He constructed a kind of fort over against them and set out for Syria, believing it to be of more importance to aid Cassius than himself to destroy their city.  They then made an attack upon this and got possession of it, after which they started for Adana, a place on their borders always at variance with them, giving as an excuse that it was following the cause of Cassius.  The latter, when he heard of it, first, while Dolabella was still alive sent Lucius Rufus against them, but later came himself, to find that they had already capitulated to Rufus without a struggle.  Upon them he inflicted no severe penalty save to take away all their money, private and public.  As a result, the people of Tarsus received praise from the triumvirate, who now held sway in Rome, and were inspired with hope of obtaining some return for their losses.  Cleopatra also, on account of the detachment she had sent to Dolabella, was granted the right to have her son called King of Egypt.  This son, whom she named Ptolemy, she also pretended was sprung from Caesar, and she was therefore wont to address him as Caesarion.