[Footnote 90: Sixty-five years before Christ, Syria
Pontusque monumenta sunt Cn. Pompeii virtutis, (Vell.
Patercul. ii. 38,) rather of his fortune and power: he
adjudged Syria to be a Roman province, and the last of the
Seleucides were incapable of drawing a sword in the defence
of their patrimony (see the original texts collected by
Usher, Annal. p. 420)]