[717] Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 4.

[718] Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 8.

[719] Plutarch, Cæsar, 31.

[720] Plutarch, Pompey, 57.

[721] Plutarch, Cæsar, 31.

[722] “Ut via illa nostra, quæ per Macedoniam est usque ad Hellespontum militaris.” (Cicero, Orat. de Provinciis Consularibus, 2.—Strabo, VII. vii. 268.)

[723] Plutarch, Crassus, 17.

[724] On the left bank of the Tigris, opposite Seleucia.

[725] Plutarch, Crassus, 24.

[726] The ancient authors name him Augar, Abgaros, or Ariamnes.