Capitolo 20
some king of Bithynia Nicomedes was. Caesar joined to
The court of Nicomedes, and it entered his/her service. Of bad duration, Sylla
you/he/she had stopped undertaking him/it, and lately it granted him a pardon, but
if before or after this duration now is not be verify. At all
events, Caesar was interested in the scenes and enjoyments of
The court of Nicomedes, and it allowed the time to pass away without forming some
plain to return to Rome.
[Sidenote: Cilicia.]
[Sidenote: his/her inhabitants' Character.]
On the opposite side of Smaller Asia, that is, on the southern beach,
there was a region wild and mountainous call Cilicia. The great chain
of mountains you approach Individuals been born under the sign of the Taurus they called here very next to the sea and the
the steep conformations of the earth that, in the inside, produces tall
series and tops and dark valleys and ravines, form, along the line
of the beach, heads and promontories, it limited from steep sides, and
with deep bays and harbors among them. The people of Cilicia were
accordingly half sailors, half mountaineers. They built rapid helmets,
and it did on excursions in the great strength the Mediterranean Sea for
conquest and looting. They would capture the only ships, and sometimes
also whole fleets of merchantmen. They was also strong enough on many
occasions to disembark and to take possession of an I bring and a city and taking
often, it for considerable once, against all the efforts of the
the near powers to dislodge them. In case, however their enemies
become too strongly to some duration for them, them they would withdraw them to him
hands that were defended so that the fortitudes that protected them,
and from the desperate value of the garrisons that the pursuers
you don't generally dare to try to force their way in; and if, in some
case, a city or an I bring you/they were taken, the untamable one attaches with ferocity it would continue
their retreat to the fastnesses of the mountains, where it was suddenly
useless to try to follow them.
[Sidenote: The Cilicians that wants in poets and historians.]