The narrative of Plutarch omits many circumstances in the campaigns of
Pompeius, which Appianus has described (c. 105, 106) a happening
between the arrangement with Tigranes and the surrender of the fort by
Stratonike. Among these events was the war in Judaea and the capture of
Jerusalem. Pompeius entered the Holy of Holies in the Temple, into
which only the high priest could enter, and that on certain occasions.
Jerusalem was taken B.C. 63 in the consulship of Cicero. The events of
this campaign are too confused to be reduced into chronological order.
Drumann has attempted it (_Geschichte Roms_, Pompeii, p. 451, &c.)]
[Footnote 276: Plutarch means the fort which he has mentioned in the
preceding chapter without there giving it a name; the Symphorium of
Dion. It was on the river Lycus, not quite 200 stadia from Cabira
(Strabo, 556), and was an impregnable place.]
[Footnote 277: [Greek: Hupomnemata]: probably written in Greek, with
which Mithridates was well acquainted. These valuable memoirs were
used by Theophanes in his history of the campaigns of Pompeius.
Theophanes was a native of Mitylene in Lesbos and accompanied Pompeius
in several of his campaigns. He is often mentioned by Cicero (Cicero,
_Ad Attic._, ii. 4, and the notes in the Variorum edition).]
[Footnote 278: The character of Mithridates is only known to us from
his enemies. But his own memoirs, if the truth is here stated, prove
his cruel and vindictive character.
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