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VVHen Manius Aquilius should plead his owne defence, or aunswere in case of extortion, hee would not himselfe intreat and crave the favour of the Iurie. But M. Antonius his advo∣cate, who pleaded for him at the bar, sitt his coat downe along his brest, to shew the honou∣rable skarres received in the forepart of his bodie: which being by the Iudges seen, they made no doubt,
but acquit him. Of this thing Cicero is the onely authour. Didius the Pro-consull mannaged his wars against the Cel••berians, happily. Ptolomaeus K. of Cyrenae surnamed Apion, when he died, lest the people of Rome his heire: & the Senat ordained that the cities of his realme should be free. Ariobarzanes was restored to his kingdome of Cappadocia, by L. Cornelius Sylla. The Parthian embassadours sent from their K. Arsaces came unto Sylla, to treat and sue for amitie with the people of Rome. P. Rutilius a man of uncorrupt and innocent life, who (beeing lieutenant under L. Mucius the Pro-consull) had defen∣ded Asia from the wrongful dealings of the Publicans or common farmers (being odious to the order of knighthood or gentlemen of Rome, who now as iudges had the iurisdiction in their hands) was condem∣ned for extortion and banished. C. Geminus the Pretor fought untowardly against the Thracians. The Senate would no longer abide the unrulines and wilfull abuses committed by the gentlemen in excer∣cising of their iurisdiction, and therefore began by all meanes possible to endevour, for to reduce and translate that prerogative again to themselves: in which enterprise M. Livius Drusus a Tribune of the commons stood in their behalfe: who to gain more strength to the cause, raised the commons by proposing unto them a pernicious hope of a largesse. Moreover in this booke are comprised the sturres and troubles of the kings in Syria.