[1026] Metellus was subjugating Crete, when Pompey sent one of his lieutenants to depose him, under the pretence that that island was included in his own wide jurisdiction by sea.
[1027] Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 49.
[1028] “No rectitude, no candour, not a single honourable motive in his policy; nothing elevated, nothing strong, nothing generous.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 12.)
[1029] Plutarch, Pompey, 47.
[1030] Pliny, Natural History, XXXVII. 5.
[1031] Vases from Carmania that were highly prized. They reflected the colours of the rainbow, and, according to Pliny, a single one was sold for seventy talents (more than 300,000 francs [£12,000]). (Pliny, Natural History, XXXVII, 7, 8.)
[1032] Pliny, XXXIII. 54.—Strabo, XII. 545.
[1033] Appian, War against Mithridates, 116.
[1034] Pliny, Natural History, XII. 9, 54.
[1035] Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 2.—Velleius Paterculus, II. 34.