Justin: HISTORIARVM PHILIPPICARVM T. POMPEII TROGI LIBRI XLIV IN EPITOMEN REDACTI

Primo uolumine continentur haec. Imperium Assyriorum a Nino rege usque ad Sardanapallum: post quem translatum est per Arbacem ad Medos, usque ad ultimum regem Astyagem. Is a nepote suo Cyro pulsus regno, et Persae regno potiti.

In the first volume the following are contained: the empire of the Assyrians from King Ninus up to Sardanapalus; after whom it was transferred by Arbaces to the Medes, up to the last king, Astyages. He was driven from his kingdom by his grandson Cyrus, and the Persians possessed the kingdom.

Ut Croeso Lydiae regi bellum intulit Cyrus uictumque cepit. Hic in excessu dicti Aeolicarum et Ionicarum urbium situs originesque Lydorum et in Italia Tuscorum. Post Cyrum filius Cambyses Aegyptum domuit.

How Cyrus brought war against Croesus, king of Lydia, and, once vanquished,
he took him. Here, in an excursus of the discourse, are the sites of the Aeolic and Ionic cities, and the origins of the Lydians and, in Italy, the Tuscans. After Cyrus, his son Cambyses subdued Egypt.

Repetitae Aegypti origines urbium. Extincto Cambyse Darius occisis magis regnum Persicum accepit captaque Babylone bella Scythica molitus est.

The origins of the cities of Egypt were recounted again. With Cambyses dead, Darius, the Magi having been slain, received the Persian kingdom, and, Babylon having been captured, undertook Scythian wars.

PROLOGVS LIBRI II.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 2.

Secundo uolumine continentur haec. Scythiae et Ponti situs originesque Scythiae usque ad bellum, quo est inde pulsus Darius: qui post hanc fugam Graeciae bellum intulit per Datim et Tisaphernem, quod soli Athenienses sustinuere. Hic origines Athenarum repetitae et reges usque ad Pisistrati tyrannidem, qua extincta Marathone uicere Persas.

In the second volume these things are contained: the site of Scythia and Pontus, and the origins of Scythia up to the war by which Darius was driven from there; who, after this flight, brought war upon Greece through Datis and Tisaphernes, which the Athenians alone sustained. Here the origins of Athens are rehearsed and the kings down to the tyranny of Pisistratus, which, once extinguished, at Marathon they conquered the Persians.

Ut mortuo Dario filius eius Xerxes bellum Graeciae intulit: ac repetitae origines Thessaliae: expulsoque Graecia Xerxe bellum ab Atheniensibus translatum in Asiam usque ad Xerxis interitum.

When Darius was dead, his son Xerxes brought war upon Greece: and the origins of Thessaly were repeated: and, with Xerxes expelled from Greece, the war was transferred by the Athenians into Asia up to the death of Xerxes.

PROLOGVS LIBRI III.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 3.

Tertio uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo Xerxe filius Artaxerxes ultus interfectorem patris Artabanum bellum cum defectore Aegypti habuit, primoque dux eius Achaemenes uictus est, iterum per Bagabaxum Aegyptus recepta. Ut Graecis cum rege pacificatis bella inter ipsos orta sint.

In the third volume these things are contained. That, with Xerxes dead, his son Artaxerxes, having avenged the slayer of his father, Artabanus, waged war with the defector of Egypt, and at first his leader Achaemenes was defeated; again, through Bagabaxus Egypt was recovered. That, with the Greeks pacified with the king, wars arose among themselves.

Inde repetitae Peloponnensium origines: ut ab Herculis posteris Dorico populo sit occupata. Deinde bella Argolica et Messania, coalitique Sicyone et Corinthio tyranni. Bellum Crisaeum et quod Athenienses primo cum Boeotis, dein cum Peloponnesiis gesserunt.

Thence the origins of the Peloponnesians are retaken: that by the descendants of Hercules the Doric people occupied it. Then the Argolic and Messenian wars, and the tyrants coalesced at Sicyon and at Corinth. The Crisaean War, and the one which the Athenians waged first with the Boeotians, then with the Peloponnesians.

PROLOGVS LIBRI IV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 4.

Quarto uolumine continentur res Siculae, ab ultima origine usque ad deletam Syracusis Atheniensium classem.

In the fourth volume are contained the Sicilian affairs, from the earliest origin up to the Athenian fleet destroyed at Syracuse.

PROLOGVS LIBRI V.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 5.

Quinto uolumine continentur haec. Bellum inter Athenienses et Lacedaemonios, quod Deceleicum uocatur, usque ad captas Athenas. Ut expulsi sunt Athenis XXX tyranni.

In the fifth volume these things are contained. The war between the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians, which is called the Decelean, up to the capture of Athens. How the 30 tyrants were expelled from Athens.

Bellum quod Lacedaemonii in Asia cum Artaxerxe gesserunt propter Cyrum adiutum. Hinc repetitum in excessu Cyri cum fratre bellum et Graecorum, qui sub eo militauerunt.

The war which the Lacedaemonians waged in Asia with Artaxerxes on account of Cyrus having been aided. Thence is resumed, at the death of Cyrus, the war with his brother, and that of the Greeks who served under him.

PROLOGVS LIBRI VI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 6.

Sexto uolumine continentur haec. Bellum Lacedaemoniorum gestum in Asia cum Persicis praefectis, ducibus belli Dercylide et Agesilao, usque ad proelium nauale factum Cnido: quo uictis illis Athenienses repetiere imperium. Dein bellum Corinthiacum et bellum Boeotium, quo Leuctris et Mantineae uicti Spartani amisere imperium.

In the sixth volume the following are contained. The war of the Lacedaemonians waged in Asia with the Persian prefects, with Dercylidas and Agesilaus as leaders of the war, up to the naval battle fought at Cnidus: with them defeated, the Athenians retook their imperium. Then the Corinthian War and the Boeotian War, in which, at Leuctra and at Mantinea, the Spartans, having been defeated, lost their imperium.

In Thessalia deinde Iasonis et post illum Alexandri Pheraei coalitum atque extinctum imperium. Tum sociale bellum gestum aduersus Athenienses a Chiis et Rhodiis et Byzantiis. Transitus hinc ad res Macedonicas.

In Thessaly, then, the dominion of Jason and, after him, of Alexander of Pherae was consolidated and then extinguished. Then the Social War was waged against the Athenians by the Chians and Rhodians and Byzantines. From here there is a transition to Macedonian affairs.

PROLOGVS LIBRI VII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 7.

Septimo uolumine continentur origines Macedonicas regesque a conditore gentis Carano usque ad magnum Philippum; ipsius Philippi res gestae usque ad captam urbem Mothonen. Additae in excessu Illyriorum et Paeonum origines.

In the seventh volume are contained the Macedonian origins and the kings from the founder of the nation Caranus up to great Philip; the deeds of Philip himself up to the capture of the city Mothone. Added at the end are the origins of the Illyrians and the Paeonians.

PROLOGVS LIBRI VIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 8.

Octauo uolumine contingentur res gestae Philippi Magni post captam urbem Mothonen, a principio belli Phocensis, quod sacrum uocant, usque ad finem eius, interiectumque huic bellum, quod Philippus cum Chalcidicis urbibus gessit, quarum clarissimam deleuit Olynthon. Ut Illyrici reges ab eo uicti sunt, et Thracia atque Thessalia subactae, et rex Epiro datus Alexander erepto Arybba, et frustra Perinthos oppugnata.

In the eighth volume will be contained the deeds of Philip the Great after the city Mothone was captured, from the beginning of the Phocian War, which they call sacred, up to its end; and the war interposed to this, which Philip waged with the Chalcidian cities, of which he destroyed the most renowned, Olynthus.
How the Illyrian kings were conquered by him, and Thrace and Thessaly were subjugated, and Alexander was given as king to Epirus with Arybbas removed, and Perinthus was assaulted in vain.

PROLOGVS LIBRI IX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 9.

Nono uolumine continentur haec. Ut Philippus a Perintho summotus. Byzantii origines, a cuius obsidione summotus Philippus Scythiae bellum intulit.

In the ninth volume these things are contained. How Philip was driven off from Perinthus. The origins of Byzantium, from the siege of which Philip, driven off, brought war upon Scythia.

Repetitae inde Scythicae res ab his temporibus, in quibus illa prius finierant, usque ad Philippi bellum, quod cum Athea Scythiae rege gessit. Unde reuersus Graeciae bellum intulit uictisque Chaeroneae, cum bella Persica moliretur praemissa classe cum ducibus, a Pausania, occupatis angustiis nuptiarum filiae, occisus est, priusquam bella Persica inchoaret. Repetitas res inde Persicae ab Dario Notho, cui successit filius Artaxerxes cognomine Mnemon, qui post fratrem Cyrum uictum pulsaque Cnido per Conona classe Lacedaemoniorum bellum cum Euagora rege Cyprio gessit: originesque Cypri repetit.

From there the Scythian affairs are taken up again from those times at which they had earlier ended, down to the war of Philip, which he waged with Atheas, king of Scythia. Whence, returning, he brought war upon Greece and, with those at Chaeronea conquered, while he was setting in motion the Persian wars, a fleet having been sent ahead with commanders, he was slain by Pausanias, when the narrow approaches of his daughter’s nuptials had been occupied, before he could begin the Persian wars. Thence the Persian affairs are resumed from Darius Nothus, to whom succeeded his son Artaxerxes by surname Mnemon, who—after his brother Cyrus was defeated, and the Lacedaemonian fleet driven off at Cnidus by Conon—waged war with Evagoras, the Cyprian king; and he recounts the origins of Cyprus.

PROLOGVS LIBRI X.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 10.

Decimo uolumine continentur Persicae res. Ut Artaxerxes Mnemon pacificatus cum Euagora rege Cyprio bellum Aegyptium in urbe Ace conpararit, ipse in Cadusis uictus, defectores in Asia purpuratos suos persecutus, primum Dotamen praefectum <Paphlagoniae>. Paphlagonon origo repetita: deinde praefectum Hellesponti Ariobarzanen, deinde in Syria praefectum Armeniae Oronten, omnibusque uictis decesserit filio successore Ocho. Is deinde occisis optimatibus Sidon accepit.

In the tenth volume the Persian affairs are contained. When Artaxerxes Mnemon, having made peace with Euagoras, king of Cyprus, prepared the Egyptian war in the city of Ace, he himself was defeated among the Cadusians, and, pursuing in Asia the defectors, his purple-clad men, first Dotamen the prefect of <Paphlagonia>. The origin of the Paphlagonians was retold: then Ariobarzanes, the prefect of the Hellespont; then in Syria Orontes, the prefect of Armenia; and with all defeated he departed, his son Ochus as successor. He thereafter, the nobles having been slain, took Sidon.

Aegypto bellum ter intulit. Ut post mortem Ochi regnarit Arses, deinde Darius, qui cum Alexandro Macedonum rege bello conflixit.

He brought war upon Egypt three times. How after the death of Ochus Arses reigned, then Darius, who fought in war with Alexander, king of the Macedonians.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 11.

Undecimo uolumine continentur res gestae Alexandri Magni usque ad interitum regis Persarum Darii, dictaeque in excessu origines et reges Cariae.

In the eleventh volume are contained the deeds of Alexander the Great up to the death of Darius, king of the Persians, and in the conclusion the origins and the kings of Caria are recounted.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 12.

Duodecimo uolumine continentur Alexandri magni bella a Bactriana et Indica usque ad interitum eius, dictaeque in excessu res a praefecto eius Antipatro in Graecia gestae, et ab Archidamo, rege Lacedaemoniorum, Molossoque Alexandro in Italia, quorum ibi est uterque cum exercitu deletus. Additae his origines Italicae, Apulorum, Lucanorum, Samnitium, Sabinorum, et ut Zopyrion in Ponto cum exercitu periit.

In the twelfth volume are contained the wars of Alexander the Great from the Bactrian and Indian campaigns down to his death, and, recorded in an excursus, the deeds done in Greece by his prefect Antipater, and by Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and by Alexander the Molossian in Italy, of whom there each was destroyed with his army. Added to these are the Italic origins, of the Apulians, Lucanians, Samnites, Sabines, and how Zopyrion in the Pontus perished with his army.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 13.

Tertio decimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo Alexandro optimates castrorum eius prouinciarum imperia sint partiti; ut ueterani, qui ab eodem lecti erant in colonias, moliti relictis illis in Graeciam redire a Pithone sint deleti. Bellum Lamiacum, quod Antipater in Graecia gessit.

In the thirteenth volume the following are contained. That, with Alexander dead, the optimates of his camp partitioned the commands of the provinces; that the veterans, who had by that same man been selected into colonies, having attempted, those left behind, to return to Greece, were destroyed by Pithon. The Lamian War, which Antipater waged in Greece.

Bellum quo Perdiccas regem Ariarathem occidit; <ut> occisus est. Bellum quo Eumenes Neoptolemum et Crateron occidit. Additae in excessu origines regesque Quirenarum.

The war in which Perdiccas killed King Ariarathes; <how> he was killed. The war in which Eumenes killed Neoptolemus and Craterus. Appended in the conclusion are the origins and the kings of the Quirenaeans.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XIV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 14.

Quarto decimo uolumine continentur haec. Bellum inter Antigonum et Eumenen gestum: quem ut Cappadocia expulit Antigonus, sic Phrygia minore Arridaeum et Cliton uictos in Hellesponto nauali bello. Repetitum rursus bellum ab Eumene per Argyraspidas; quo uictus ab Antigono interiit.

In the 14th volume these things are contained. A war was waged between Antigonus and Eumenes: whom, as Antigonus drove out of Cappadocia, so in Lesser Phrygia Arrhidaeus and Clitus were defeated in the Hellespont in a naval battle. The war was taken up again by Eumenes through the Argyraspids (Silver-Shields); in which, defeated by Antigonus, he perished.

Ut in Macedonia Cassander uicto Polyperchonte receptaque a Nicanore Munychia matrem Alexandri Olympiada Pydnae obsessam interfecit.

Thus in Macedonia Cassander, with Polyperchon conquered and Munychia recovered by Nicanor, killed Olympias, Alexander’s mother, besieged at Pydna.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 15.

Quinto decimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Demetrius Antigoni filius Gazae uictus est ab Ptolomaeo. Ut Cassander in Macedonia filium Alexandri regis interfecit, ac alterum Polyperchon.

In the fifteenth volume these things are contained. How Demetrius, son of Antigonus, was defeated by Ptolemy at Gaza. How Cassander in Macedonia killed the son of King Alexander, and the other Polyperchon.

Ut Cypro Ptolomaeum uicit classe Demetrius idemque ab obsidione Rhodi summotus est. Repetita in excessu origo Rhodiorum. Unde digressus Demetrius liberauit a Cassandro Graeciam.

How at Cyprus Demetrius defeated Ptolemy by a fleet, and the same was driven off from the siege of Rhodes. The origin of the Rhodians is recapitulated in an excursus. Whence departing, Demetrius liberated Greece from Cassander.

Dein pater eius Antigonus bellum cum Lysimacho et Seleuco habuit, repetitaeque Seleuci res et regis Indiae Sandrocotti. Ut uictus bello Antigonus interiit reliquiaeque imperii sunt a filio collectae. Cleonymi deinde Spartani res gestae Corcyrae et Illyrico et in Italia, cui ablata Corcyra.

Then his father Antigonus had war with Lysimachus and Seleucus; and the affairs of Seleucus and of Sandrocottus, king of India, were taken up again. How Antigonus, defeated in war, perished, and the remnants of the empire were gathered by his son. Then the deeds of Cleonymus the Spartan at Corcyra and in Illyricum and in Italy, from whom Corcyra was taken away.

Rex Cassander interiit.

King Cassander perished.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XVI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 16.

Sexto decimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo Cassandro ortisque inter filios eius certaminibus Demetrius adiutor alteri adhibitus occiso eo Macedoniae regnum tenuit: quo mox euictus a Pyrro Epiri rege, translatis in Asiam bellis captus a Seleuce decessit. Ut Ptolomaeus nuncupato successore filio Philadelpho decessit.

In the sixteenth volume these things are contained. How, with Cassander dead and quarrels having arisen among his sons, Demetrius, employed as a helper to one of them, with him slain, held the kingdom of Macedonia: he, soon overcome by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, with the wars transferred into Asia, captured by Seleucus, died. How Ptolemy, having publicly named his son Philadelphus as successor, died.

Ut Lysimachus in Ponto captus ac missus a Dromichaete rursus in Asia ciuitates, quae sub Demetrio fuerant, et in Ponto Heracleam occuparit. Repetitae inde Bithyniae et Heracleoticae origines, tyrannique Heracleae Clearchus et Satyrus et Dionysius, quorum filiis interfectis Lysimachus occupauit urbem.

How Lysimachus, captured in Pontus and sent back by Dromichaetes, thereafter in Asia seized the cities which had been under Demetrius, and in Pontus took Heraclea. Thence are recounted the origins of Bithynia and of Heraclea, and the tyrants of Heraclea, Clearchus and Satyrus and Dionysius; their sons having been slain, Lysimachus seized the city.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XVII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 17.

Septimo decimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Lysimachus occiso filio Agathocle per nouercam Arsinoen bellum cum rege Seleuco habuit, quo uictus interiit: ultimumque certamen conmilitonum Alexandri fuit. Ut Seleucus amissis in Cappadocia cum Diodoro copiis interfectus est ab Ptolomaeo fratre Arsinoes uxoris Lysimachi, in cuius uicem Ptolomaeus cognomine Ceraunus creatus ab exercitu rex Macedoniam occupauit; bella cum Antiocho et Pyrro conposuit, datis Pyrro auxiliis, quibus iret contra Romanos defensum Tarentum.

In the seventeenth volume these things are contained. How Lysimachus, after his son Agathocles had been slain through his stepmother Arsinoe, waged war with King Seleucus, by whom, defeated, he perished: and it was the last contest of Alexander’s fellow-soldiers. How Seleucus, his forces lost in Cappadocia along with Diodorus, was killed by Ptolemy, the brother of Arsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus; in his place Ptolemy, surnamed Ceraunus, created king by the army, occupied Macedonia; he composed the wars with Antiochus and Pyrrhus, giving auxiliaries to Pyrrhus, with which he might go against the Romans to defend Tarentum.

Inde repetitae origines regum Epiroticorum usque ad Pyrrum, ipsiusque Pyrri res gestae priusquam in Italiam traiecit.

Thence the origins of the Epirote kings were recounted up to Pyrrhus, and the deeds of Pyrrhus himself before he crossed over into Italy.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XVIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 18.

Octauo decimo uolumine continentur res a Pyrro Epirota in Italia gestae contra Romanos, postque id bellum transitus eius in Siciliam aduersus Carthaginenses. Inde origines Phoenicum et Sidonos et Veliae Carthaginisque res gestae in excessu dictae.

In the eighteenth volume are contained the deeds done by Pyrrhus the Epirote in Italy against the Romans, and after that war, his passage into Sicily against the Carthaginians. Then the origins of the Phoenicians and of Sidon, and the deeds of Velia and of Carthage are told in an excursus.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XIX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 19.

Undeuicensimo uolumine continentur res Carthaginensium in Africa per Sabellum Annonem gestae et in Sicilia, cum Selinuntem et Agragantum et Camerinam et Gelam ceperunt; quo bello Dionysius Syracusanus Siciliae regnum occupauit. Bellum, quod cum eo Poeni per Himilconem gesserunt, qui obsidione Syracusarum exercitum et classem amisit.

In the nineteenth volume are contained the affairs of the Carthaginians in Africa, effected under Sabellus Hanno, and in Sicily, when they took Selinus and Acragas and Camarina and Gela; in which war Dionysius the Syracusan seized the kingdom of Sicily. The war which the Carthaginians waged with him through Himilco, who, by the siege of Syracuse, his army and fleet lost.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 20.

Vicensimo uolumine continentur res gestae Dionysii Siculi patris. Ut pulsis Poenis Italica bella sit molitus. Inde repetitae origines Venetorum et Graecorum et Gallorum, qui Italiam incolunt.

In the twentieth volume are contained the deeds of Dionysius the Sicilian, the father: how, with the Carthaginians driven out, he undertook Italian wars. Then the origins of the Veneti and the Greeks and the Gauls who inhabit Italy are taken up again.

Deductisque Dionysii rebus ad interitum eius dictae quas Anno magnus in Africa gessit.

And, the affairs of Dionysius having been brought down to his death, there are told those which Anno the Great carried out in Africa.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 21.

Uno et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut in Sicilia Dionysius filius a patre amisso tractarit imperium. Per <Dionem> Dionysius eiectus bellum cum Siculis gessit, donec amissis liberis et fratribus Corinthum <abiit>. Ut a Timoleonte Carthaginensium bello sit liberata Sicilia mortuoque Sosistrato iterum facta seditione arcessitique a bello Carthaginenses obsederunt Syracusas quo bello Agathocles nanctus imperium est.

In the twenty-first volume these things are contained. How in Sicily Dionysius the son, with his father lost, administered the imperium. By
<Dion> Dionysius, driven out, waged war with the Sicilians, until, his children and brothers lost, he <went> to Corinth. How by Timoleon Sicily was liberated from the Carthaginians’ war, and, Sosistratus having died, with sedition made again, and the Carthaginians, <called in> by the war, besieged Syracuse—in which war Agathocles obtained the imperium.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 22.

Secundo et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Res gestae Agathoclis: ut a Poenis nanctus imperium bellum cum ipsis gessit, primum in Sicilia; dehinc uictus traiecit in Africam, ubi possessa prouincia Ophellam regem Cyrenarum interfecit. Ut rursus in Siciliam reuersus, occupata totius insulae dominatione, cum reuertisset in Africam, amissis copiis solus inde profugit in Siciliam, belloque ibi repetitus et cum Poenis pacem conposuit et dissidentes a se Siculos subiecit.

In the 22nd volume are contained these things. The deeds of Agathocles: how, having gotten command, he waged war with the Poeni (Carthaginians), first in Sicily; then, defeated, he crossed over into Africa, where, the province having been seized, he killed Ophellas, king of the Cyrenaeans.
How, having returned again to Sicily, after occupying the dominion of the whole island, when he had returned to Africa, his forces lost, he alone fled from there into Sicily; and with the war there renewed he both made peace with the Poeni (Carthaginians) and the Sicilians dissenting from him he subdued.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 23.

Tertio et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Agathocles domita Sicilia bellum in Italia Bruttiis intulit. Repetitae inde Bruttiorum origines.

In the twenty-third volume the following are contained. How Agathocles, Sicily having been subdued, brought war in Italy upon the Bruttii. Thereupon the origins of the Bruttii are recounted.

Omnibus subactis rex seditione filii exheredati ac nepotis oppressus interiit. Inter peregrinos deinde milites eius et Siculos bellum motum, quae causa Pyrrum, regem Epiri, in Siciliam adduxit. Bella quae Pyrrus cum Poenis et Mamertinis ibi gessit et a Sicilia reuersus in Italiam uictusque proelio a Romanis reuertit Epirum.

With all subdued, the king, overwhelmed by the sedition of his disinherited son and his grandson, perished. Then war was set in motion between his foreign soldiers and the Sicilians, a cause which brought Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, into Sicily. The wars which Pyrrhus waged there with the Carthaginians and the Mamertines, and, returning from Sicily to Italy and being defeated in battle by the Romans, he returned to Epirus.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXIV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 24.

Quarto et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Bellum quod inter Antigonum Gonatam et Antiochum Seleuci filium in Asia gestum est. Bellum, quod Ptolomaeus Ceraunus in Macedonia cum Monio Illyrio et Ptolomaeo Lysimachi filio habuit, utque Arsinoen sororem suam imperio Macedonicarum urbium exuit, ipse cum Belgio Gallorum duce congressus interiit.

In the 24th volume the following are contained: the war that was waged in Asia between Antigonus Gonatas and Antiochus, son of Seleucus. The war that Ptolemy Ceraunus in Macedonia waged with Monunius the Illyrian and with Ptolemy, son of Lysimachus; and how he stripped Arsinoe, his sister, of the imperium of the Macedonian cities, while he himself, having engaged with Belgius, leader of the Gauls, perished.

Repetitae inde Gallorum origines qui Illyricum occuparunt; atque ut ingressi Graeciam Brenno duce Delphis uicti deletique sint.

Then the origins of the Gauls who occupied Illyricum are recounted; and how, having entered Greece with Brennus as leader, at Delphi they were defeated and annihilated.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 25.

Quinto et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Antigonus Gallos deleuit, deinde cum Apollodoro, Cassandreae tyranno, bellum habuit. Ut Galli transierunt in Asiam bellumque cum rege Antiocho et Bithunia gesserunt: quas regiones Tyleni occuparunt.

In the twenty-fifth volume the following are contained. How Antigonus annihilated the Gauls, then had war with Apollodorus, the tyrant of Cassandrea. How the Gauls crossed into Asia and waged war with King Antiochus and with Bithynia: which regions the Tyleni occupied.

Ut Pyrrus ex Italia reuersus regno Macedoniae Antigonum exuerit, Lacedaemona obsederit, Argis interierit; filiusque eius Alexander Illyricum cum rege Mitylo bellum habuerit.

How Pyrrhus, returned from Italy, stripped Antigonus of the kingdom of Macedonia, besieged Lacedaemon, and perished at Argos; and how his son Alexander waged war against Illyricum together with King Mytilus.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXVI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 26.

Sexto et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Quibus in urbibus Graeciae dominationem Antigonus Gonatas constituerit. Ut defectores Gallos Megaris deleuit regemque Lacedaemonium Area Corinthi interfecit, dehinc cum fratris sui Crateri filio Alexandro bellum habuerit.

In the twenty-sixth volume these things are contained. In which cities of Greece Antigonus Gonatas established dominion. How he annihilated the deserter Gauls at Megara and slew the Lacedaemonian king Areus at Corinth, then thereafter he waged war with Alexander, the son of his brother Craterus.

Ut princeps Achaiae Aratus Sicuonem et Corinthum et Megara occuparit. Ut in Syria rex Antiochus cognomine Soter altero filio occiso, altero rege nuncupato Antiocho decesserit. Ut in Asia filius Ptolomaei regis socio Timarcho desciuerit a patre.

How Aratus, princeps of Achaia, seized Sicyon and Corinth and Megara. How in Syria King Antiochus, by cognomen Soter, with one son slain and the other, Antiochus, proclaimed king, departed this life. How in Asia the son of King Ptolemy, with Timarchus as ally, defected from his father.

Ut frater Antigoni Demetrius occupato Cyrenis regno interiit. Ut mortuo rege Antiocho filius eius Seleucus Callinicus regnum acceperit.

How Demetrius, the brother of Antigonus, perished, with the kingdom at Cyrene occupied. How, King Antiochus being dead, his son Seleucus Callinicus received the kingdom.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXVII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 27.

Septimo et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Seleuci bellum in Syria aduersus Ptolomaeum Tryphonem: item in Asia aduersus fratrem suum Antiochum Hieracem, quo bello Ancurae uictus est a Gallis: utque Galli Pergamo uicti ab Attalo Zielan Bithunum occiderint. Ut Ptolomaeus Adaeum denuo captum interfecerit, et Antigonus Andro proelio nauali Sophrona uicerit.

In the twenty-seventh volume the following are contained. The war of Seleucus in Syria against Ptolemy Tryphon: likewise in Asia against his brother Antiochus Hierax, in which war at Ancyra he was defeated by the Gauls: and how the Gauls, defeated at Pergamum by Attalus, killed Zielas the Bithynian. How Ptolemy killed Adaeus, captured again, and Antigonus at Andros in a naval battle defeated Sophron.

Ut a Callinico fusus in Mesopotamia Antiochus insidiantem sibi effugit Ariamenen, dein postea custodes Tryphonis; quo a Gallis occiso Seleucus quoque frater eius decessit, maioremque filiorum eius Apaturius occidit.

How Antiochus, routed by Callinicus in Mesopotamia, escaped Ariamenes lying in ambush for him, and then afterwards the guards of Tryphon; and when he was slain by the Gauls, his brother Seleucus likewise departed, and Apaturius killed the elder of his sons.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXVIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 28.

Octauo et uicensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo rege Epiri Alexandro Laodamiam Epirotae occiderint. Dictique in excessu Basternici motus.

In the twenty-eighth volume these things are contained. How, after Alexander, the king of Epirus, had died, the Epirotes killed Laodamia. And, in a digression, the Basternian movements were recounted.

Ut rex Macedoniae Demetrius sit a Dardanis fusus: quo mortuo tutelam filii eius Philippi suscepit Antigonus, qui Thessaliam in Asia Cariam subiecit et adiutis Achaeis contra regem Spartanum Cleomenem cepit Lacedaemona: amissoque regno Cleomenes Spartanus confugit Alexandriam atque ibi interiit. Dictum in excessu bellum Illyricum quod Romani gessere cum Teuta.

How King Demetrius of Macedonia was routed by the Dardanians: upon his death Antigonus assumed the guardianship of his son Philip, who subdued Thessaly and, in Asia, Caria; and, with the Achaeans aided against Cleomenes the Spartan king, he took Lacedaemon: and, his kingdom lost, Cleomenes the Spartan fled to Alexandria and there perished. Mentioned in a digression, the Illyrian war which the Romans waged with Teuta.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXIX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 29.

Undetricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Res gestae Philippi regis aduersus Dardanos et Aetolos. Repetitaeque inde Creticae origines; post cuius insulae societatem Philippus cum Illyriis et Dardanis et rursus Aetolis bello congressus est adiuuantibus Aetolos Romanis: quo finito intulit Attalo bellum.

In the 29th volume these things are contained. The deeds of King Philip against the Dardanians and the Aetolians. And from there the Cretan origins are taken up again; after the alliance of which island, Philip engaged in war with the Illyrians and the Dardanians and again the Aetolians, the Romans aiding the Aetolians: when this was finished, he made war upon Attalus war.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 30.

Tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo Ptolomaeo Tryphone filius eius Philopator Antiochum regem uicit Raphiae, ipse amore Agathocleae corruptus decessit relicto filio pupillo, in quem cum Philippo rege Macedonum consensit Antiochus. Philippi deinde gesta in Asia, cum mouisset Attalo bella: a quibus reuersus bellum habuit cum ducibus Romanis Sulpicio et Flaminino, a quibus uictus; pax.

In the thirtieth volume these things are contained. When Ptolemy Tryphon had died, his son Philopator defeated King Antiochus at Raphia; he himself, corrupted by love of Agathoclea, died, leaving his son a ward, against whom Antiochus made common cause with Philip, king of the Macedonians. Then the deeds of Philip in Asia, since he had set in motion wars against Attalus: returning from which he had war with the Roman commanders Sulpicius and Flamininus, by whom he was conquered; peace.

Transitus deinde ad res Antiochi, qui post regnum acceptum persecutus defectores in Mediam Molonem, in Asiam Achaeum, quem obsedit Sardibus, pacata superiore Asia Bactris tenus in bella Romana descendit.

Then the transition is to the affairs of Antiochus, who, after the kingdom had been received, pursued the defectors—Molon in Media, Achaeus in Asia, whom he besieged at Sardis—and, with Upper Asia pacified as far as Bactra, he descended into the Roman wars descended.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 31.

Uno et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Bellum, quod cum Lacedaemonio Nabide Titus Flamininus et Philopoemen dux Achaeorum gessit. Item bellum, quod cum Antiocho in Achaia per Acilium consulem, et in Asia per Scipionem gestum est, denique Hannibalis ad regem a Carthagine fuga.

In the thirty-first volume are contained these things. The war which Titus Flamininus and Philopoemen, leader of the Achaeans, waged with the Lacedaemonian Nabis. Likewise the war which was conducted with Antiochus in Achaia through the consul Acilius, and in Asia through Scipio; and finally Hannibal’s flight from Carthage to the king.

Bellum cum Aetolis gestum per eundem Acilium, qui Antiochum Graecia expulerat.

The war with the Aetolians waged by that same Acilius, who had expelled Antiochus from Greece.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 32.

Secundo et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Defectio ab Achaeis Lacedaemoniorum et Messeniorum, qua Philopoemen interiit. Romanorum in Asia duce Manlio aduersus Gallos bellum.

In the thirty-second volume are contained these things. The defection from the Achaeans of the Lacedaemonians and the Messenians, in which Philopoemen perished. The war of the Romans in Asia, under the leader Manlius, against the Gauls.

Regis Philippi propter ablatas sibi ciuitates alienatus in Romanos animus, et ob hoc alter filiorum Demetrius occisus, concitatique ab eo Basternae transire conati in Italiam. Inde in excessu dictae res Illyricae: ut Galli, qni occuparant Illyricum, rursus redierunt in Galliam: originesque Pannoniorum et incrementa Dacorum per Burobusten regem. In Asia bellum ab rege Eumene gestum aduersus Gallum Ortiagontem, Pharnacem Ponticum et Prusian, adiuuante Prusian Hannibale Poeno.

King Philip’s spirit, because cities had been taken away from him, was alienated against the Romans; and on this account Demetrius, one of his sons, was slain; and the Bastarnae, stirred up by him, attempted to cross into Italy. Then, in an excursus, the Illyrian matters are told: how the Gauls, who had occupied Illyricum, returned again into Gaul; and the origins of the Pannonians and the increments of the Dacians under King Burobustes. In Asia a war was waged by King Eumenes against the Gaul Ortiagon, Pharnaces the Pontic, and Prusias, with Hannibal the Punic (Carthaginian) aiding Prusias.

Res gestae Hannibalis post uictum Antiochum et mors. Mortuo Seleuco filio Magni Antiochi successit regno frater Antiochus.

The deeds of Hannibal after Antiochus had been conquered, and his death. Upon the death of Seleucus, son of Antiochus the Great, his brother Antiochus succeeded to the realm.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 33.

Tertio et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut cum Perse Philippi filio, rege Macedonum, Romani bellum gesserint: quo capto deleta est Epiros. Achaicae ciuitates ab unitate corporis deductae, inter Achaeos et Lacedaemonios certamine orto.

In the 33rd volume these things are contained. How, when the Romans waged war with Perseus, son of Philip, king of the Macedonians: upon his being captured Epirus was destroyed. The Achaean cities were drawn away from the unity of the body, a contest having arisen between the Achaeans and the Lacedaemonians.

Bellum rursus in Macedonia gestum a Romanis cum Pseudophilippo.

A war was again waged in Macedonia by the Romans against Pseudo-Philip.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXIV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 34.

Quarto et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Bellum Achaicum, quod Romani per Metellum et Mummium gessere, quo diruta est Corinthos. Bellum regis Eumenis cum Gallograecis et in Pisidia cum Selegensibus.

In the 34th volume these things are contained. The Achaean War, which the Romans waged through Metellus and Mummius, by which Corinth was razed. The war of King Eumenes with the Gallo-Greeks, and in Pisidia with the Selgians.

Res quas gessit Syrias rex Antiochus, et rex Aegypti Ptolomaeus Epiphanes. Ut mortuo Ptolomaeo relicti ab eo filii duo Philometor et Euergetes primum cum Antiocho habuere bellum, quod per Romanos finitum est, deinde inter se, quo maior est expulsus, restitutoque Romani inter fratres regna diuiserunt. Ut mortuo Antiocho rege Syriae Demetrius cognomine Soter, qui Romae fuerat obses, clam fugit occupataque Syria bellum cum Timarcho Medorum rege habuit <et> Ariarathe rege Cappadocum.

The affairs which King Antiochus of Syria accomplished, and King Ptolemy Epiphanes of Egypt.
When Ptolemy had died, two sons left by him, Philometor and Euergetes, first waged war with Antiochus, which was ended by the Romans; then among themselves, whereby the elder was driven out, and, when he had been restored, the Romans divided the kingdoms between the brothers. When Antiochus, king of Syria, had died, Demetrius, surnamed Soter, who had been a hostage at Rome, secretly fled, and, Syria having been occupied, he waged war with Timarchus, king of the Medes, <and> with Ariarathes, king of the Cappadocians.

Repetitae inde origines regum Cappadocum. Ut habita inter Ariarathen et Orophernem regni certamina. Ut mortuo rege Asiae Eumene suffectus Attalus bellum cum Selegensibus habuit et cum rege Prusia.

Then the origins of the kings of Cappadocia were taken up again. How contests for the kingdom were held between Ariarathes and Orophernes. How, when Eumenes, king of Asia, had died, Attalus, appointed in his place, waged war with the Selgenses and with King
Prusias.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 35.

Quinto et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Bellum piraticum inter Cretas et Rhodios; seditio Cnidiorum aduersus Ceramenses. Ut aduersus Demetrium Sotera subornatus est Alexander tamquam genitus Epiphane Antiocho, quo bello uictus Demetrius <interiit. Ut deinde maior filiorum eius Demetrius> invisum stultitia Alexandrum bello uicit adiuuante Ptolomaeo Philometore, qui eo bello interiit.

In the thirty-fifth volume these things are contained: the piratical war between the Cretans and the Rhodians; the sedition of the Cnidians against the Ceramensians. How Alexander was suborned against Demetrius Soter, as though born to Antiochus Epiphanes; in which war, defeated, Demetrius <perished. How then Demetrius, the elder of his sons,> conquered Alexander, hateful for his folly, with Ptolemy Philometor aiding, who in that war perished.

Ut deinde orta Demetrio bella sint cum Diodoto Tryphone expulsusque a Tryphone regno Syriae Demetrius. Repetit inde superioris Asiae motus factos per Araetheum et Arsacen Parthum.

How then wars arose for Demetrius with Diodotus Tryphon, and that Demetrius was expelled from the kingdom of Syria by Tryphon. Thence it repeats the commotions of Upper Asia effected by Araethes and Arsaces the Parthian.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXVI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 36.

Sexto et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Trypho pulso Syria Demetrio captoque a Parthis bellum gessit cum fratre eius Antiocho cognomine Sidete. Ut Antiochus interfecto Hyrcano Iudaeos subegit.

In the 36th volume these things are contained. How, with Tryphon driven from Syria and Demetrius captured by the Parthians, the Parthian waged war with Demetrius’s brother Antiochus, surnamed Sidetes. How Antiochus, with Hyrcanus slain, subjugated the Jews.

Repetita inde in excessu origo Iudaeorum. Ut rex Asiae Attalus Caenos Thracas subegit successoremque imperii Attalum Philometora reliquit. Mortuo denique Philometore <rege frater eius Aristonicus> regno Asiae occupato bellum cum Romanis gessit, quo captus est.

Then, in a digression, the origin of the Jews is repeated. How Attalus, king of Asia, subdued the Caeni, Thracians, and left Attalus Philometor as successor of the imperium. Finally, Philometor having died, <the king, his brother Aristonicus>, having seized the kingdom of Asia, waged war with the Romans, in which he was captured.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXVII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 37.

Septimo et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Repetitis regum Ponticorum originibus, ut <ad> ultimum Mithridaten Eupatora series imperii deducta sit, atque ut ingressus ille regnum subegit Pontum et Paphlagoniam, priusquam in bella Romana descendit. Dictaeque in excessu regum Bosporanorum et Colchorum origines et res gestae.

In the thirty-seventh volume these things are contained. With the origins of the kings of Pontus retold, so that the series of dominion has been drawn down to the last, Mithridates Eupator, and how, upon his entry into the kingdom, he subjugated Pontus and Paphlagonia, before he descended into Roman wars. And, at the passing of the kings of the Bosporans and the Colchians, their origins and deeds have been told.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXVIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 38.

Octauo et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut Mithridates Eupator occiso Ariarathe Cappadociam occuparit uictoque Nicomede et Maltino Bithyniam. Ut mortuo Ptolomaeo Philometore frater eius Physcon accepto regno Aegypti seditiones populi, deinde bellum cum uxore sua Cleopatra et cum rege Syriae Demetrio habuit.

In the thirty-eighth volume these things are contained. How Mithridates Eupator, Ariarathes having been slain, seized Cappadocia, and, Nicomedes and Maltinus having been defeated, Bithynia. How, with Ptolemy Philometor dead, his brother Physcon, having received the kingdom of Egypt, had seditions of the people, then war with his wife Cleopatra and with Demetrius, king of Syria.

Inde repetitum, ut Demetrius captus sit a Parthis et frater eius uicto in Syria Tryphone bellum Parthis intulerit, qui cum exercitu suo deletus est.

Then it is resumed, how Demetrius was captured by the Parthians, and how his brother, Tryphon having been defeated in Syria, brought war upon the Parthians—who, together with his army, was destroyed.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XXXIX.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 39.

Nono et tricensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut extincto a Parthis Antiocho Sidete frater eius Demetrius dimissus regnum Syriae recepit suboruatoque in bellum aduersus eum Alexandro Zabineo interiit: filiusque eius Antiochus Grypos uicto Zabinaeo regnum occupauit: dehinc cum fratre suo Antiocho Cyziceno bellum in Syria Ciliciaque gessit. Ut Alexandria mortuo rege Ptolomaeo Physcone filius eius Ptolomaeus Lathyros accepto regno expulsus est a matre Cyprum et in Syria bello petitus ab eadem, suffecto in locum eius fratre Alexandro, donec occisa per Alexandrum matre recepit Aegypti regnum.

In the thirty-ninth volume are contained these things. How, when Antiochus Sidetes had been slain by the Parthians, his brother Demetrius, having been released, recovered the kingdom of Syria, and, Alexander Zabinas having been suborned into war against him, he perished: and his son Antiochus Grypus, Zabinas having been conquered, occupied the kingdom: thereafter he waged war with his brother Antiochus Cyzicenus in Syria and Cilicia. How at Alexandria, when King Ptolemy Physcon was dead, his son Ptolemy Lathyros, after receiving the kingdom, was driven out by his mother to Cyprus and in Syria was attacked in war by that same woman, his brother Alexander having been substituted in his place, until, his mother having been slain by Alexander, he recovered the kingdom of Egypt.

Ut post Lathyrum filius Alexandri regnarit expulsoque eo suffectus sit Ptolomaeus Nothus. Ut Syriam Iudaei et Arabes terrestribus latrociniis infestarint, mari Cilices piraticum bellum mouerint, quod in Cilicia Romani per Marcum Antonium gesserunt. Ut in Syria Heracleo post mortem regis occuparit imperium.

That after Lathyros the son of Alexander reigned, and, he having been expelled, Ptolemy Nothus was put in his place. That the Jews and Arabs made Syria unsafe with terrestrial brigandage, and at sea the Cilicians set a piratical war in motion, which in Cilicia the Romans waged through Marcus Antonius. That in Syria Heracleon, after the death of the king, seized the imperium.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XL.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 40.

Quadragensimo uolumine continentur haec. Ut mortuo Grypo rege Cyzicenus cum filiis eius bello congressus interiit, hi deinde a filio Cyziceni Eusebe <extincti sunt: et ut repetito domestico bello> extinctaque regum Antiochorum domo Tigranes Armenius Syriam occupauit, quo mox uicto Romani abstulere eam. Ut Alexandriam post interitum Ptolomaei Lathyri substituti sint eius filii: alteri data Cypros, cui P. Clodii rogatione Romani abstulerunt eam; alter seditione flagitatus Alexandriae Romam profugit belloque per Gabinium gesto recepit imperium: quo mortuo successit filius, qui cum sorore Cleopatra certamine insumpto et Pompeium magnum interfecit et bellum cum Caesare Alexandriae gessit.

In the fortieth volume these things are contained. How, when King Grypus was dead, Cyzicenus, having joined battle with his sons, perished; these then were destroyed by the son of Cyzicenus, Eusebes <were extinguished: and how, with domestic war renewed> and the house of the Antiochid kings extinguished, Tigranes the Armenian occupied Syria, from whom, soon conquered, the Romans took it away. How at Alexandria, after the death of Ptolemy Lathyrus, his sons were substituted: to the one Cyprus was given, which the Romans, by the rogation of P. Clodius, took from him; the other, demanded by sedition at Alexandria, fled to Rome and, with a war carried on through Gabinius, recovered the imperium: upon his death the son succeeded, who, a contest entered upon with his sister Cleopatra, both killed Pompey the Great and waged war with Caesar at Alexandria.

Ut successit eius regno soror Cleopatra, quae inligato in amorem suum M. Antonio belli Actiaci fine extinxit regnum Ptolomaeorum.

How his sister Cleopatra succeeded to his kingdom, who, having entangled M. Antony in her love, at the end of the Actian war extinguished the kingdom of the Ptolemies.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XLI.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 41.

Uno et quadragensimo uolumine continentur res Parthicae et Bactrianae. In Parthicis ut est constitutum imperium per Arsacem regem. Successores deinde eius Artabanus et Tigranes cognomine Deus, a quo subacta est Media et Mesopotamia.

In the 41st volume are contained Parthian and Bactrian affairs. In the Parthian matters, as the imperium was established by King Arsaces. Then his successors were Artabanus and Tigranes by-surname “Deus,” by whom Media and Mesopotamia were subdued.

Dictusque in excessu Arabiae situs. In Bactrianis autem rebus ut a Diodoto rege constitutum imperium est: deinde quo repugnante Scythicae gentes, Saraucae et Asiani, Bactra occupauere et Sogdianos. Indicae quoque res additae, gestae per Apollodotum et Menandrum, reges eorum.

And the situs of Arabia has been set forth in an excursus. In Bactrian matters, moreover, how the imperium was constituted by King Diodotus; then, with him resisting, the Scythian nations, the Saraucae and the Asiani, occupied Bactra and Sogdiana. Indian affairs also are added, deeds carried out by Apollodotus and Menander, their kings.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XLII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 42.

Secundo et quadragensimo uolumine continentur Parthicae res. Ut praefectus Parthis a Phrate Himerus Mesenis bellum intulit et in Babylonios et Seleucenses saeuit: utque Phrati successit rex Mithridates cognomine Magnus, qui Armeniis bellum intulit. Inde repetitae origines Armeniorum et situs.

In the forty-second volume are contained Parthian affairs: how Himerus, prefect to the Parthians by Phraates, brought war upon the Mesenians and raged against the Babylonians and Seleucians; and how a king, Mithridates by cognomen “the Great,” succeeded Phraates, who brought war upon the Armenians. Thence the origins of the Armenians and their site are rehearsed.

Ut uaria conplurium regum in Parthis successione imperium accepit Orodes, qui Crassum deleuit et Syriam per filium Pacorum occupauit. Illi successit Phrates, qui et cum Antonio bellum habuit et cum Tiridate. Additae his res Scythicae.

How, in the varied succession of several kings among the Parthians, Orodes received the imperial power, who destroyed Crassus and occupied Syria through his son Pacorus. To him succeeded Phraates, who had war both with Antony and with Tiridates. To these were added Scythian affairs.

Reges Tocharorum Asiani interitusque Saraucarum.

The kings of the Tocharians, the Asiani, and the destruction of the Saraucae.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XLIII.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 43.

Tertio et quadragensimo uolumine continentur origines priscorum Latinorum, situs urbis Romae et res usque ad Priscum Tarquinium. Origines deinde Liguriae et Massiliensium res gestae.

In the forty-third volume are contained the origins of the ancient Latins, the site of the city of Rome, and affairs up to Priscus Tarquinius. Then the origins of Liguria and the deeds of the Massilians.

PROLOGVS LIBRI XLIV.

PROLOGUE OF BOOK 44.

Quarto et quadragensimo uolumine continentur res Hispaniae et Punicae.

In the 44th volume are contained the affairs of Spain and Punic affairs.