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2. venēnum hausit: Pharnaces was about to hand him over to the Romans. The story is that he was so inured to poisons that he was compelled to end his life with a sword.
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7. ab Artaxatā: Pompey was following him, and was planning to capture his capital city.
11. Syria, Phoenīcē: also Galatia, Cappadocia, and a part of Cilicia which Lucullus had taken away from him, Pompey refused to return.
12. Sophānēnē: Pompey made the son of Tigranes the king of Sophanene.
14. commōvisset: Subjunctive, giving the reason of the Romans.
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22. Syriam: Syria was disturbed by fierce internal dissensions. To put an end to the anarchy that existed there, Pompey resolved to annex it. He drove from the throne Antiochus Asiaticus, who had been acknowledged by the senate and by Lucullus.