in order that he might seem to his enemy worthy of respect and pity.  He had put off his tunic shot with white and the all-purple candys, but wore his tiara and headband.  Pompey, however, sent an attendant and made him descend from his horse; for Tigranes was riding up as if to enter the very fortification, mounted on horseback according to the custom of his people.  But when the Roman general saw him entering actually on foot, with fillet cast off, and prostrate on the earth doing obeisance, he felt an impulse of pity; so starting up hastily he raised him, bound on the headband and seated him upon a chair close by, and he encouraged him, telling him among other things that he had not lost the kingdom of Armenia but had gained the friendship of the Romans.  By these words Pompey restored his spirits, and then invited him to dinner.

[-53-] But the son, who sat on the other side of Pompey, did not rise at the approach of his father nor greet him in any other way, and furthermore, though invited to dinner, did not present himself.  Wherefore he incurred Pompey’s most cordial hatred.  Now, on the following day, when the Roman heard the recitals of both, he restored to the elder all his ancestral domain.  What he had acquired later, to be sure,—­these were chiefly portions of Cappadocia and Syria, as well as Phoenicia and the large Sophanenian tract bordering on Armenia,—­he took away, and demanded money of him besides.  To the younger he assigned Sophanene only.  And inasmuch as this was where the treasures were, the young man began a dispute about them, and not gaining his point—­for Pompey had no other source from which to obtain the sums agreed upon—­he became vexed and planned to escape by flight.

Pompey, being informed of this beforehand, kept the youth under surveillance without bonds and sent to those who were guarding the money, bidding them give it all to his father.  But they would not obey, stating that it was necessary for the young man, to whom the country was now held to belong, to give them this command.  Then Pompey sent him to the forts.  He, finding them all locked up, approached close and reluctantly ordered that they be opened.  When the keepers obeyed as little as before, asserting that he issued the command not of his own free will, but under compulsion, Pompey was irritated and put Tigranes in chains.

Thus the elder secured the treasures, and Pompey passed the winter in the land of Anaitis and near the river Cyraus, after dividing his army into three portions.  From Tigranes he received plenty of everything and far more money than had been agreed upon.  For this reason especially he shortly afterward enrolled the king among his friends and allies and brought the latter’s son to Rome under guard.