liunc, i.e. Mithridates. confirmavit, reassured. erat enim, etc.: explaining the reason why these nations displayed hostility, though the Romans had no designs on them. eis nationibus, i.e. those near Armenia. gravis atque vehemens, potent and very strongly held. fani: "the temple of the Persian Nanaea, or Anaitis, in Elymais, or the modern Luristan [that part of Susiana nearest to the Euphrates], the most celebrated and the richest shrine in the whole region of the Euphrates." Such a rumor would at once fire the population of the whole East. urbem: Tigranocerta, the new capital of Tigranes, situated in the southwest part of his kingdom, near the river Tigris. This city was destroyed by Lucullus. commovebatur, was affected. After all his successes, Lucullus had made somewhat the same mistake as Napoleon in his Russian expedition, and had found himself in an awkward situation, far from his base of operations, and in the midst of infuriated enemies.
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