It is an embellishment of the matter, when in the lists of the countries and kings conquered by Pompeius Media and its king Darius are enumerated (Diodorus, Fr, Vat.p.

140; Appian, Mithr.

117); and from this there has been further concocted the war of Pompeius with the Medes (Veil.ii.

40; Appian, Mithr.
106, 114) and then even his expedition to Ecbatana (Oros.vi.

5).
A confusion with the fabulous town of the same name on Carmel has hardly taken place here; it is simply that intolerable exaggeration--apparently originating in the grandiloquent and designedly ambiguous bulletins of Pompeius--which has converted his razzia against the Gaetulians (p.