Igitur Zorsines, diu pensitato, Mithridatisne rebus extremis an patrio regno consuleret, postquam praevaluit gentilis utilitas, datis obsidibus apud effigiem Caesaris procubuit, magna gloria exercitus Romani, quem incruentum et victorem tridui itinere afuisse ab amne Tanai constitit.
Zorsines, therefore, after long debating whether his first consideration was due to the desperate case of Mithridates or to his own ancestral kingdom, when once the interests of his nation carried the day, gave hostages and prostrated himself before the effigy of the Caesar'much to the glory of the Roman army, which had indisputably reached, bloodless and victorious, a point within three days march of the Tanais.
final_alignments\Tacitus_Annals_Book12.json