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 440 STRABO. CASAUB. 288. of Africa have fallen to the portion of Juba ] on account of his good will and friendship towards the Romans. The like things have taken place in Asia. At first it was governed by kings who were dependent on the Romans, and afterwards when their several lines of succession failed, as of that of the kings Attalus, 2 the kings of the Syrians, 3 the Paphlagonians, 4 Cappadocians, 5 and Egyptians, 6 [or] when they revolted and were subsequently deposed, as it happened in the case of Mithridates Eupator, and Cleopatra of Egypt, the whole of their territories within the Phasis 7 and the Euphrates, 8 with the exception of some tribes of Arabs, were brought com- pletely under the dominion of the Romans and the dynasties set up by them. The Armenians and the people who lie be- yond Colchis, both the Albani and Iberians, require nothing more than that Roman governors should be sent among them, and they would be easily ruled ; their attempted insurrections are merely the consequence of the want of attention from the Romans, who are so much occupied elsewhere: the like may be asserted of those who dwell beyond the Danube, 9 and inhabit the banks of the Euxine, excepting only those who dwell on the 1 From this expression we may gather that Strabo wrote this 6th Book of his Geography during the life-time of Juba, and, as we shall presently see, about A. D. 18; while he did not compile the 17th Book till after Juba's death, which must have taken place before A. D. 21. See M. i' Abb6 Sevin, Rech. sur ia Vie, &c., de Juba, Ac. des Inscr. et Belles- Lettres, vol. iv. Mem. p. 462. 2 Attalus III., king of Pergamus, died 133 B. c., and constituted the Roman people his heir. 3 We may here observe that the Seleucidae ceased to reign in Syria as early as 83 B. c., when that country, wearied of their sad dissensions, willingly submitted to Tigranes the king of Armenia, but their race was not extinct, and even in the year 64 B. c. when Pompey made the king- dom a Roman province, there were two princes of the Seleucidse, An- tiochus Asiaticus and his brother Seleucus-Cybiosactes, who had an hereditary right to the throne ; the latter however died about 54 B. c., and in him terminated the race of the Seleucidae. 4 The race of the kings of Paphlagonia became extinct about 7 B. c. See M. P Abbe" Belley, Diss. sur P ere de Germanicopolis, &c. Ac. des Inscr. et Belles- Lettres, vol. xxx. Mem. p. 331 . 5 The royal race of Cappadocia failed about 91 B. c. 6 The race of the Lagidae terminated with Ptolemy Auletes, who died 44 B. c., leaving two daughters, Cleopatra and Arsinoe. Ptolemy Apion died 96 B. c. ; he left Cyrene, whereof he was king, to the Roman people. 7 Now the Fasz or Rion. 3 The Forat, Ferat, or Frat. 9 The ancient Ister.