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We need not describe his wonderfully crowded career in detail, or follow all his changes of policy towards the men of the highest rank, whom he regarded alternately as promoters or thwarters of his own good fortune. With him at any rate there is no more question of anything but a programme drawn up by a single individual and forming no part of the policy of any regular government. 3 As for his legateship in Further Spain, we are less interested in the military successes by which he consolidated the Roman occupation, than in the liberty which he took in adding to the number of his forces without permission, and the riches which he managed to amass there, 1 XCVIII, III, p.
Rome developed the economic resources of their country, increased the outlets for them, and spread more widely the various advantages of Hellenism. For Rome herself there was something new in this arbitrary power left to the knights to direct foreign affairs and determine frontier policy. It was seen again on other occasions. The annexation of Cyprus not long afterwards (58) was only the result of a conspiracy among the treasure hunters: that of Crete2 in 67, connected with the campaign against the pirates, had already shown the consequences of a purely selfish pursuit of glory.
During his absence, Marius in his turn brought the capital city to his feet by the same methods, and caused himself also to be appointed leader in the war against Mithridates. C. Sulla had no other rival who could match him in reputation and power. Aquillius, son of the first organizer of the province of Asia, whom the Senate had sent thither. This man, who was no less corrupt than inefficient, had originally been charged with the task of restoring the conditions which Sulla had left behind him four years before.