§15.4.8Cumque eo animo venissem ut utrique provinciae, si ita tempus ferret, subvenirem, tum id, quod iam ante statueram vehementer interesse utriusque provinciae, pacare Amanum et perpetuum hostem ex eo monte tollere, agere perrexi.
And when I had come with the intention of succoring both provinces, if the time should so require, I proceeded to execute what I had already before determined to be of great importance to both provinces: to pacify Amanus and to remove the perpetual enemy from that mountain.
Cumque me discedere ab eo monte simulassem et alias partis Ciliciae petere abessemque ab Amano iter unius diei et castra apud Epiphaneam fecissem, a. d. iiii Id. Oct. , cum advesperasceret, expedito exercitu ita noctu iter feci, ut a. d. iii Id. Oct.
And when I had feigned to depart from that mountain and to seek other parts of Cilicia, and was a day's journey away from Amanus and had pitched camp near Epiphanea, on the fourth day before the Ides of October, as evening was falling, I marched by night with my army lightly equipped, so that on the third day before the Ides of October, as dawn was breaking, I ascended Amanus.
, cum lucisceret, in Amanum ascenderem distributisque cohortibus et auxiliis, cum aliis Quintus frater legatus mecum simul, aliis C. Pomptinus legatus, reliquis M. Anneius et L. Tullius legati praeessent, plerosque nec opinantis oppressimus, qui occisi captique sunt interclusi fuga,
Having distributed the cohorts and auxiliaries—with my brother Quintus, the legate, in command of some along with me, Gaius Pomptinus, the legate, of others, and Marcus Anneius and Lucius Tullius, the legati, of the rest—we surprised most of them who were expecting no such thing; they were killed or captured, their escape being cut off.
§15.4.9Eranam autem, quae fuit non vici instar sed urbis, quod erat Amani caput, itemque Sepyram et Commorim, acriter et diu repugnantibus Pomptino illam partem Amani tenente, ex antelucano tempore usque ad horam diei x magna multitudine hostium occisa cepimus castellaque vi capta complura $(9) incendimus.
Moreover, Erana, which was not like a village but of the size of a city, and was the capital of Amanus, as well as Sepyra and Commoris, though they resisted sharply and for a long time while Pomptinus held that part of Amanus, we captured from before dawn until the tenth hour of the day, after a great multitude of the enemy had been slain; and we burned several fortresses captured by force.
his rebus ita gestis castra in radicibus Amani habuimus apud aras Alexandri quadriduum et in reliquus Amani delendis agrisque vastandis, quae pars eius montis meae provinciae est, id tempus omne consumpsimus.
These things having been thus performed, we kept camp at the foothills of Amanus near the altars of Alexander for four days, and we consumed all that time in destroying the rest of Amanus and in devastating the fields, in that part of the mountain which belongs to my province.
§15.4.10confectis his rebus ad oppidum Eleutherocilicum Pindenissum exercitum adduxi.
When these things were finished, I led my army to the town of the Free-Cilicians, Pindenissum.
quod cum esset altissimo et munitissimo loco ab iisque incoleretur qui ne regibus quidem umquam paruissent, cum et fugitivos reciperent et Parthorum adventum acerrime exspectarent, ad existimationem imperi pertinere arbitratus sum comprimere eorum audaciam, quo facilius etiam ceterorum animi, qui alieni essent ab imperio nostro, frangerentur.
Since this was in a very high and fortified place and was inhabited by those who had never obeyed even kings, and since they received fugitives and eagerly awaited the arrival of the Parthians, I thought it concerned the prestige of our empire to crush their audacity, so that the spirits of the others who were disaffected toward our empire might be more easily broken.
vallo et fossa circumdedi, sex castellis castrisque maximis saepsi, aggere, vinus, turribus oppugnavi ususque tormentis multis, multis sagittarus magno labore meo sine ulla molestia sumptuve sociorum septimo quinquagesimo die rem confeci, ut omnibus partibus urbis disturbatis aut incensis compulsi in potestatem meam pervenirent.
I surrounded it with a rampart and a trench, enclosed it with six redoubts and very large camps, and besieged it with an earthen mound, mantlets, and towers. Using many engines of war and many archers, with great labor of my own and without any trouble or expense to the allies, I completed the business on the fifty-seventh day, so that, all parts of the city having been demolished or burned, they were forced to surrender to my power.
his erant finitimi pari scelere et audacia Tebarani.
Neighboring these were the Tebarani, of equal wickedness and audacity.
ab iis Pindenisso capto obsides accepi; exercitum in hiberna dimisi; Quintum fratrem negotio praeposui ut in vicis aut captis aut male pacatis exercitus conlocaretur.
Having captured Pindenissum, I received hostages from them; I dismissed the army into winter quarters, and I put my brother Quintus in charge of the business, so that the army might be stationed in the villages that were either captured or poorly pacified.
§15.4.11nunc velim sic tibi persuadeas, si de iis rebus ad senatum, relatum sit me existimaturum summam mihi laudem tributam, si tu honorem meum sententia tua comprobaris, idque, etsi talibus de rebus gravissimos homines et rogare solere et rogari scio, tamen admonendum potius te a me quam rogandum puto.
Now I would wish you to convince yourself of this: that if a report concerning these matters is made to the senate, I shall consider that the highest praise has been paid to me if you approve my honor by your vote; and although I know that on such matters even the most influential men are accustomed both to ask and to be asked, yet I think that you should rather be reminded by me than asked.
tu es enim is qui me tuis sententiis saepissime ornasti, qui oratione, qui praedicatione, qui summis laudibus in senatu, in contionibus ad caelum extulisti; cuius ego semper tanta esse verborum pondera putavi, ut uno verbo tuo cum mea laude coniuncto omnia adsequi me arbitrarer;
For you are the one who has very often adorned me with your votes, who has extolled me to the heavens in the senate and in public assemblies with your speeches, your public declarations, and your highest praises; the weight of whose words I have always thought to be so great that I believed myself to have attained everything by a single word of yours joined with my praise.
te denique memini, cum cuidam clarissimo atque optimo viro supplicationem non decerneres, dicere te decreturum, si referretur ob eas res quas is consul in urbe gessisset; tu idem mihi supplicationem decrevisti togato non ut multis re p. bene gesta sed ut nemini re p. conservata.
Finally, I remember that when you did not decree a thanksgiving for a certain very famous and excellent man, you said that you would decree it if a report were made for those things which he had performed in the city as consul; yet you yourself decreed a thanksgiving for me, a civilian in the toga—not, as for many, for having successfully conducted the state, but, as for no one else, for having preserved the state.
§15.4.12Mitto quod invidiam, quod pericula, quod omnis meas tempestates et subieris et multo etiam magis, si per me licuisset, subire paratissimus fueris, quod denique inimicum meum tuum inimicum putaris, cuius etiam interitum, cum facile intellegerem mihi quantum tribueres, Milonis causa in senatu defendenda approbaris.
I pass over the fact that you underwent unpopularity, dangers, and all my tempests, and were even much more ready to undergo them if it had been permitted by me; and finally, that you considered my enemy to be your enemy, whose destruction you even approved in the senate in defending the cause of Milo, when I easily understood how much you valued me.
A me autem haec sunt profecta, quae non ego in benefici loco pono sed in veri testimoni atque iudici, ut praestantissimas tuas virtutes non tacitus admirarer (quis enim id non facit?), sed in omnibus orationibus, sententiis dicendis, causis agendis omnibus scriptis Graecis, Latinis, omni denique varietate litterarum mearum te non modo iis quos vidissemus sed iis de quibus audissemus omnibus anteferrem.
On my part, however, these things have proceeded, which I do not place in the category of a favor, but of true testimony and judgment: that I did not admire your most outstanding virtues in silence (for who does not do that?), but in all my speeches, in delivering my opinions, in pleading cases, in all my writings, both Greek and Latin, and finally in all the variety of my letters, I preferred you not only to those whom we had seen, but to all of whom we had heard.