[Sidenote:—­14—­] [Against Ariogaesus Marcus was so bitter that he issued a proclamation to the effect that any one who would bring him alive should receive a thousand gold pieces, and any one who killed him and exhibited his head, five hundred.  Yet in other cases this emperor was always accustomed to treat even his most stubborn foes humanely; for instance, he did not kill, but merely sent to Britain Tiridates, a satrap who roused a tumult in Armenia and the person who slew the king of the Heniochi and then held the sword in Verus’s [Footnote:  P.  Martius Verus.] face, when the latter rebuked him for it.  This, then, shows the extent of his irritation against Ariogaesus at the time.  However, when the man was later captured he did him no harm, but sent him away to Alexandria.]

[Sidenote:  A.D. 174(?) 175(?)] When Pertinax in consideration of his brave exploits obtained the consulship, there were nevertheless some who showed displeasure at the fact that he was of obscure family, and quoted the line from tragedy: 

  “Such things the wretched war brings in its train.” [Footnote:  From
  Euripides, The Suppliants, verse 119.]

They did not know that he should yet be sovereign.

[Sidenote:  A.D. 176(?)] [Sidenote:—­15—­] [At the request of the Marcomani, as expressed by their envoys and in view of the fact that they had followed all the injunctions laid upon them, even if sullenly and hesitatingly, he released to them one half of the adjoining territory, so that they could settle for a distance of about thirty-eight stades [Footnote:  Or five miles.] from the Ister, and established the places and the days for their meeting together (these had not been previously determined), and he exchanged hostages with them.]

[Sidenote:  A.D. 175 (a.u. 928)] [Sidenote:—­16—­] [The Iazyges, also, when they had experienced reverses, came to an agreement, Zanticus himself appearing as suppliant before Antoninus.  Previously they had imprisoned Banadaspus, their second king, for making proposals to him.  Now, however, all the foremost men came in company with Zanticus and made the same compact as that accepted by the Quadi and the Marcomani, except in so far as they were required [Footnote:  Reading [Greek:  aemellon] (Boissevain).] to dwell twice as far away from the Ister as those tribes.  It was his wish to root them out utterly.  That they were still strong at this time and could have done the Romans great harm is evident from the fact that they gave back one hundred thousand captives out of a body in which many had been sold, many were dead, and many had run away and been recaptured.  They supplied Antoninus at once with a cavalry force of eight thousand allies, fifty-five hundred of whom he sent to Britain.]

[Sidenote:—­17—­] [The revolt of Cassius and Syria forced Marcus Antoninus, even contrary to his wishes, to come to terms with the Iazyges.  He was so upset at the news that he did not even communicate to the senate the basis of the reconciliation made with them, as he was wont to do in all other cases.]