. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . granted to him by the Qabinianlaw, a tribune named Vlaniliui propo ed thai the powerof Pompey befurl her extendedto include all thei e rn prov-ince ubjecl toRome, with fullcharge of I ir M ii hradal ic W&\ Pompey r • 11 -tered upon thista I ??• il h vigoiHe forced Mi-thradate to fleefar to I he norl hea I ; he co n -quered I he •«and ;i|f|<r| theSeleucid kingHorn of Syria tothe Roman do-main. At last, in 63 b. c, wofl wa broughl to himthai Mithradates on had revolted again * the old king,and thai Mithradates himself had com
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . granted to him by the Qabinianlaw, a tribune named Vlaniliui propo ed thai the powerof Pompey befurl her extendedto include all thei e rn prov-ince ubjecl toRome, with fullcharge of I ir M ii hradal ic W&\ Pompey r • 11 -tered upon thista I ??• il h vigoiHe forced Mi-thradate to fleefar to I he norl hea I ; he co n -quered I he •«and ;i|f|<r| theSeleucid kingHorn of Syria tothe Roman do-main. At last, in 63 b. c, wofl wa broughl to himthai Mithradates on had revolted again * the old king,and thai Mithradates himself had committed suicide toavoid being captured. The death of Mithradates endedthe long revolt of the Ea it again I Rome. A a result, theRoman territory in western Asia wa extended to theEuphrate River, by the addition of the two new provinceof Syria and Bithynia, which included the western pari ofMithradates kingdom of Pontus. Palestine became a de-pendency of Rome, and Egypt had long been under theprotection of the Senate. The end of the Mithradatic wars,. i .i ElOMAl Pfl Ail i in I 1 i Till E tl .i iin. MriMi• i)• io v. ...n Sin) THE ST0R1 OF ROME therefore, marks a step In the rounding out of the Romanpower in the East, Pompey was occupied for two yearswith the arrangement of matters in western Asia, and couldnot return to Italy until late in the year 62 b. c, 458. The Growth Of Great Estates in the Provinces, amithe Coloni. Hie Roman occupation o\ Asia Minor in L33b. c, and the addition of great stretches oi territory throughthe Mithradatic wars, led to the growth of great domains,either leased by the state to the Roman publicans for longperiods of time, or sold outright by the state to the con-quering generals ami their friends o( the noble circles o(Rome. Rome had always regarded conquered territory as i he farms of the Roman stale. These farms the censors mightsell outright or lease for a share of the produce to a tenant. In western Asia the Romans found that the immen
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