Excerpt from The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends, Vol. 1 of 3: With Remarks by William Melmoth, Esq. Pompey was at this time carrying on the war in Afia againl't Mithridates, king of Pontus and the letter to which Cicero alludes, probably brought an account of the progrefs of the campaign. Mithridates was a cruel but brave prince, who had given employment to the Roman arms for more than forty years. Pompey, however, had the good for tune to complete what Sylla and Lucullus, his predecefl'ors in this command, were obliged to leave unfinilhed: and he not only defeated Mithridates, but annexed to the Roman dominions all that part of Alia which is between the Red, the Cafpian, and the Arabian feas. Flor. Iii. 5. 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.