4.  V. II.  Renewal of the War

5.  Pompeius distributed among his soldiers and officers as presents 384,000,000 sesterces (=16,000 talents, App.  Mithr. 116); as the officers received 100,000,000 (Plin.  H. N. xxxvii. 2, 16) and each of the common soldiers 6000 sesterces (Plin., App.), the army still numbered at its triumph about 40,000 men.

6.  V. II.  Sieges of the Pontic Cities

7.  V. II.  All the Armenian Conquests Pass into the Hands of the Romans

8.  V. II.  Syria under Tigranes

9.  V. II.  Syria under Tigranes

10.  IV.  I. The Jews

11.  V. II.  Siege and Battle of Tigranocerta

12.  Thus the Sadducees rejected the doctrine of angels and spirits and the resurrection of the dead.  Most of the traditional points of difference between Pharisees and Sadducees relate to subordinate questions of ritual, jurisprudence, and the calendar.  It is a characteristic fact, that the victorious Pharisees have introduced those days, on which they definitively obtained the superiority in particular controversies or ejected heretical members from the supreme consistory, into the list of the memorial and festival days of the nation.

13.  V. II.  All the Armenian Conquests Pass into the Hands of the Romans

14.  V. II.  Beginning of the Armenian War, V. II.  All the Armenian Conquests Pass into the Hands of the Romans

15.  Pompeius spent the winter of 689-690 still in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea (Dio, xxxvii. 7).  In 690 he first reduced the last strongholds still offering resistance in the kingdom of Pontus, and then moved slowly, regulating matters everywhere, towards the south.  That the organization of Syria began in 690 is confirmed by the fact that the Syrian provincial era begins with this year, and by Cicero’s statement respecting Commagene (Ad Q. fr. ii. 12, 2; comp.  Dio, xxxvii. 7).  During the winter of 690-691 Pompeius seems to have had his headquarters in Antioch (Joseph, xiv. 3, 1, 2, where the confusion has been rectified by Niese in the Hermes, xi. p. 471).

16.  III.  V. New Warlike Preparations in Rome

17.  III.  IV.  War Party and Peace Party in Carthage

18.  Orosius indeed (vi. 6) and Dio (xxxvii. 15), both of them doubtless following Livy, make Pompeius get to Petra and occupy the city or even reach the Red Sea; but that he, on the contrary, soon after receiving the news of the death of Mithradates, which came to him on his march towards Jerusalem, returned from Syria to Pontus, is stated by Plutarch (Pomp. 41, 42) and is confirmed by Floras (i. 39) and Josephus (xiv. 3, 3, 4).  If king Aretas figures in the bulletins among those conquered by Pompeius, this is sufficiently accounted for by his withdrawal from Jerusalem at the instigation of Pompeius.

19.  V. II.  Renewal of the War, V. IV.  Variance between Mithradates and Tigranes