Cilicia

But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.

And not much time was in between, and a journey as far as Cilicia, and from there a return.

They threaten, however, a gathering of those of like mind with them, both from Armenia of the Tetrapolis and from Cilicia.

Cicero thus sketches the contents of the whole edict which he published as governor of Cilicia (ad Att.

He was content (at least Cicero was, when governor of Cilicia) with promising that, in issuing decrees on such points, he would conform to the principles of the urban edicts.

and they proceeded to put to Cyrus the questions resolved upon by the army.

Thence he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria.

But Cyrus, perplexed and distressed by this situation, sent repeatedly for Clearchus.

to both Phrygias, to Paphlagonia, India, Caria, and Cilicia;

He sent out no Persians as satraps over Cilicia or Cyprus or Paphlagonia, because these he thought joined his expedition against Babylon voluntarily;

But when Darius was come down to the coast with all his forces, and Alexander was shut up in Cilicia in extreme want, as you yourself said, and was, according to your statement, on the point of being trampled under the hoofs of the Persian horse, and when there was not room enough in the city to contain your odious demonstrations and the letters that you carried around, dangling them from your fin …

In 51 bc he went to Cilicia in Asia Minor as proconsul, an office which he administered with efficiency and integrity in civil affairs and with success in military.

For it has befallen you, men of Tarsus, to be first of the province, not only by your having the greatest city of those in Cilicia and being a metropolis from the beginning, but because you had the second Caesar disposed toward you in a friendly way above all.

By doing so Xenagoras won the gratitude of Masistes himself and Xerxes, for saving the king's brother.

But Evagoras escaped this peril, and having saved himself by fleeing to Soli in Cilicia did not show the same spirit as those who are the victims of like misfortune.

but when he was forced to go to war, he proved so valiant, and had so valiant an ally in his son Pnytagoras, that he almost subdued the whole of Cyprus, ravaged Phoenicia, took Tyre by storm, caused Cilicia to revolt from the king, and slew so many of his enemies that many of the Persians, when they mourn over their sorrows, recall the valor of Evagoras.

Of the cities in Cilicia, the greater number are held by those who side with us and the rest are not difficult to acquire.

above all, if you undertake to conquer the whole empire of the King, or, at any rate, to wrest from it a vast extent of territory and sever from it—to use a current phrase—“Asia from Cilicia to Sinope”;

Furthermore, Cyprus and Phoenicia and Cilicia, and that region from which the barbarians used to recruit their fleet, belonged at that time to the King, but now they have either revolted from him or are so involved in war and its attendant ills that none of these peoples is of any use to him;

he sailed round to Cilicia at the head of his fleet, in company with the fleet of Cyrus, and made it impossible for Syennesis, the ruler of Cilicia, to oppose Cyrus by land in his march against the Persian king.