§24.1ταῦτα ἀπαγγελθέντα Μιθριδάτης διὰ θάμβους ἐποιεῖτο· καὶ λέγεται μὲν εἰπεῖν πρὸς τοὺς φίλους· τί δῆτα προστάξει Σερτώριος ἐν Παλατίῳ καθεζόμενος, εἰ νῦν εἰς τὴν Ἀτλαντικὴν ἐξεωσμένος θάλασσαν ὅρους ἡμῶν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τίθησι καὶ πειρωμένοις Ἀσίας ἀπειλεῖ πόλεμον; §24.2οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ γίνονταί γε συνθῆκαι καὶ ὅρκοι, Καππαδοκίαν καὶ Βιθυνίαν ἔχειν Μιθριδάτην· Σερτωρίου στρατηγὸν αὐτῷ καὶ στρατιώτας πέμποντος, Σερτώριον δὲ παρὰ Μιθριδάτου λαβεῖν τρισχίλια τάλαντα καὶ τεσσαράκοντα ναῦς.
When these things were reported, Mithridates was filled with amazement; and he is said to have said to his friends: "What, indeed, will Sertorius command when he is seated on the Palatine, if now, when he has been driven out to the Atlantic Sea, he sets limits to our kingdom and threatens us with war if we attempt to take Asia?" Nevertheless, a treaty was made and oaths were sworn, to the effect that Mithridates should have Cappadocia and Bithynia, Sertorius sending him a general and soldiers, and that Sertorius should receive from Mithridates three thousand talents and forty ships.
§24.3πέμπεται δὲ καὶ στρατηγὸς εἰς Ἀσίαν ὑπὸ Σερτωρίου τῶν ἀπὸ βουλῆς πεφευγότων πρὸς αὐτὸν Μᾶρκος Μάριος, ᾧ συνεξελών τινας πόλεις τῶν Ἀσιάδων ὁ Μιθριδάτης εἰσελαύνοντι μετὰ ῥάβδων καὶ πελέκεων αὐτὸς εἵπετο δευτέραν τάξιν καὶ σχῆμα θεραπεύοντος ἑκουσίως ἀνειληφώς.
Moreover, Marcus Marius, one of those senators who had fled to him, was sent by Sertorius as general to Asia; and Mithridates, after jointly capturing some of the Asiatic cities with him, followed behind him as he made his entry with rods and axes, having voluntarily assumed a subordinate rank and the posture of an attendant.
§24.4ὁ δὲ τὰς μὲν ἠλευθέρου, ταῖς δὲ ἀτέλειαν γράφων χάριτι Σερτωρίου κατήγγελεν, ὥστε τὴν Ἀσίαν αὖθις ἐνοχλουμένην μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν τελωνῶν, βαρυνομένην δὲ ταῖς πλεονεξίαις καὶ ὑπερηφανίαις τῶν ἐπισκήνων, ἀναπτοηθῆναι πρὸς τὴν ἐλπίδα καὶ ποθεῖν τὴν προσδοκωμένην μεταβολὴν τῆς ἡγεμονίας.
And he, on the one hand, freed some of the cities, and to others proclaimed immunity from taxes by the favor of Sertorius, so that Asia, which was on the one hand troubled again by the tax-collectors, and on the other hand burdened by the greed and arrogance of those quartered upon them, was fluttered with hope and yearned for the expected change of government.