Book XCIII.
Publius Servilius, the proconsul in Cilicia, subdued the Isaurians, and took several
cities belonging to the pirates. Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, dying, bequeathed his
dominions to the Roman people, who reduced them into the form of a province. [Y.R. 678.
B.C. 74.] Mithridates, having established a league with Sertorius, declared war against
Rome; he made vast preparations, both by land and sea, and seized Bithynia: Marcus
Aurelius Cotta was overcome in an action by the king, at Chalcedon. This book contains the
history of the actions of Pompey and Metellus against Sertorius, who was equal to them in
all the tactics of war and military service, and having driven them from the blockade of
the town of Calagurris, he compelled them to retire to different countries-Metellus to
Farther Spain, and Pompey to Gaul.