Romans, the former appointed his son Artavazd to reign over the country of Ararat. This event happened in the 33rd y^ar of his reign, when the king was in Mesopotamia.
Gabius the Roman general, having been sent to superintend the government of Assyria lately ceded to the Roman power by Tigranes, there ensued a quarrel between them, in which Ti- granes flew to arms, and attacked and conquered several places which he had before yielded up. Ccabius alarmed for the safety of his govern- ment, speedily made peace with him, and as a means of conciliating his friendship, restored his two nephews Mithridates and Arsham, who, as we have related, had been before taken away by Pompey. Gabius shortly after went to Egypt to assist king Ptolemy against the Alexandrians. Crassus, that member of the triumvirate before 3949 ; alluded to, to whom the government of Asia was **^^' allotted, about this period came into Assyria, where he established the seat of his empire. Having, however, engaged in a war with the Parthians, he was killed in an engagement with that people.^
Cassius was the next governor of Assyria. Bibulus succeeded him. The latter was much harassed in his government by the Armenians, but finally the Romans succeeded in obtain^
« See Hut B. II, e. 10 snd 11.
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