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who at this moment was engaged in a distant quarter, no sooner heard of this revolt than he marched with haste toward the rebels.

Tiran, not being sufficiently strong to make head against his father's forces, was obliged to make a precipitate retreat. Having no odier resource^ and being unwilling to encounter the anger of his father, he fled to Pompey. This general, guided by Tiran, entered Armenia, and shortly after made a peace between the Romans and Tigranes : the latter relinquishing ali claims to that part of the countries of Assyriiei and Phoenicia lying between the Euphrates and the sea, to be thenceforward possessed by the Romans. He also gave up a part of Cap* padocia and Gilieia. Tigranes bestowed great gifts on Pompey, with whom he entered into friendship. To each soldier of the Roman army he gave 160 pieces of silver, to every lieute* nant 1,000, and to the captains 10,000 each. The two sons of the unfortunate Mithridates, whose names were Mithridates and Arsham, were delivered up to Pompey, with whom they proceeded to Rome. Here, shortly after, was formed that celebrated triumvirate by which the government of the three quarters of the globe were divided between Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus. 39451 After the peace between Tigranes and the

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