There can be little doubt that he is wrong, as Gallus did not approach the capital of Sabaea.

Compare the note of the Oxford editor of Strabo .-- M.] [Footnote 3: By the slaughter of Varus and his three legions.

See the first book of the Annals of Tacitus.Sueton.in August.c.

23, and Velleius Paterculus, l.ii.c.117, &c.

Augustus did not receive the melancholy news with all the temper and firmness that might have been expected from his character.] [Footnote 4: Tacit.Annal.l.ii.Dion Cassius, l.lvi.p.833, and the speech of Augustus himself, in Julian's Caesars.