On The Alexandrian War. Caesar Gaius Julius

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СКАЧАТЬ both Armenia and Cappadocia immediately and not to believe that, due to the civil war, Rome neglected to defend its rights in the most distant provinces. Believing however that this request should be strengthened by military pressure, but having sent two legions to Caesar, one of which by land, through Syria, which will not arrive in time to Caesar, took XXXVI (36) with him and others two legions and added them to Deiotaro (King of Galatia); these two legions had been trained in the Roman way for years. To these three legions were added 100 knights and another 100 received them from Ariobarzane, and still sent the Quaestors P. Sesto (P. Sestius) and C. Pletorio (C. Pletorius) to Ponto to bring him the legion he had hurriedly enlisted there, while Q. Pelusio (Q. Pelusius) was sent to Cilicia to retrieve another auxiliary that was enlisting there; all these forces met in Comana Pontica.

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      While Cneo Domizio Calvino focused his forces, messengers from Farnace came to him to announce that he had abandoned Cappadocia but that he intended to keep Little Armenia, because he claimed that that kingdom belonged to his father before and therefore belonged to him by right, and still added who believed it was his right that the decision should be left to Caesar's judgment, and he would gladly have obeyed it. Domizio Calvino considered that the real reasons for the renunciation of Cappadocia were strategic; this was actually too far and therefore indefensible, while the hereditary claims on both territories were illegitimate, as was the claim to wait for Caesar's arrival to settle his territorial question. Farnace for his part thought that Domizio Calvino had only three insufficient legions and troops, and that the Armenian territory was more easily defensible, also because Domizio had sent two legions to Caesar in Alessandria.

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