Sixty-five years before Christ,
Syria Pontusque monumenta sunt Cn. Pompeii virtutis (Vell.
Patercul. ii. 38),
rather of his fortune and power: he adjudged Syria to be a Roman province, and the last of the Seleucides were incapable of drawing a sword in the defence of their patrimony (see the original texts collected by Usher, Annal. p. 420).