But if Tigranes should now make peace, not only would Mithradates lose the last chance of being reinstated in his kingdom, but his surrender would be beyond doubt the first condition of peace; and cer tainly Tigranes would not have acted
towards him than Bocchus had formerly acted towards Jugurtha.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
