Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 426
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Excerpt from Letters of Cicero, Vol. 2 of 4: Whole the Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order Roman administration but sudden returns to old habits were by no means unlikely or unknown, and the mountain district of Amanns especially contained robber tribes likely to cause trouble, and for victories over whom Cicero so long expected a triumph. His year of office, however, with this exception, passed off quietly. He had been alarmed when starting for it by the report that the Parthians - after their victory over Crassus in b.c. 5 3 - were on the pomtoof 1n vading the neighbouring province of Syria, and might, if they succeeded there, attack his own province. Even if this latter did not happen, he would be bound, he thought, to go to the assistance of Bibulus in Syria, if he were hard pressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.