Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of Africa have fallen to the portion of Juba‘ on account of his good will and friendship toward.s the Homans. The like things have taken place in Asia. At first it was governed by kings who were dependent on the Romans, and afterwards when their several lines of succession failed, as of that of the kings Attains,^ the kings of the Syrians,^ the Paphlagonians,* Cappadocians,^ and Egyptians,® [or] when they revolted and were subsequently deposed, as it happened in the case of Mithridates Eupator, and Cleopatra of Egypt, the whole of their territories within the Phasis ^ and the Euphrates,® with the exception of some tribes of Arabs, were brought com- pletely under the dominion of the Romans and the d^masties set up by them. The Armenians and the people who lie be- yond Colchis, both the Albani and Iberians, require nothing more than that Roman governors should l>e sent among them, and they Avould be easily ruled ; their attempted insurrections are merely tlie consequence of the want of attention from the Romans, who are so much occupied elsewhere: the like may be asserted of those who dwell beyond the Danube,^ and inhabit the hanks of the Euxine, excepting only those who dwell on the ’ From tliis expression we may gather that Strabo wrote this 6th Book of his Geography during the life-time of Juba, and, as we shall presently see, about A. d. 18; while he did not compile the 17th Book till after Juba’s death, which must have taken place before d. 21. See M. r Abbd Sevin, Rech. sur la Vie, &c., de Juba, Ac. dcs Inscr. et Belles- Lettres, vol. iv. Mem. p. 462. Attains 111., king of Pergamus, died 133 b. c., and constituted the Roman people his heir. ^ We may here observe that (he Seleticidm ceased to reign in Sjria as early as 83 n. c., when that country, wearied of their sad dissensions, w'illingly submitted to Tigranes the king of .Armenia, but their race was not extinct, and even in the year 64 n. c. when Pompey made the king- dom a Roman province, there were two princes of the Seleucidae, .\n- tiochus Asiaticus and his brotlier Seleucus-Cybiosactes, who had an hereditary right to the throne ; the latter however died about 54 b. c., and in him terminated the race of the Scleiicidaf. * The race of the kings of Paphlagonia became extinct about 7 b. c. See M. 1’ Abbd Belley, Diss. sur 1' ere de Germanicopolis, Ac. Ac. des Inscr. et Belles-Lettres, vol. xxx. Mem. p. 331. * The royal race of Cappadocia failed about 91 b. c. ** The race of the Lagidte terminated with Ptolemy .4ulctes, who died 44 n. c., leaving two daughters, Cleopatra and .\rsinoc. Ptolemy .\pion died 96 n. c.; he left Cyrine, whereof he w.as king, to the Roman people. ’ Now the I'iisz or Rion. * The Forat, Ferat, or Frat. ® The ancient Istcr.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0454.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
