(), general of Tigranes, king of Armenia, was
entrusted by him with the government of Syria, when it had been conquered from Antiochus X.
(Eusebes) in B. C. 83. Magadates, having ruled over the country for
fourteen years, left it in B. C. 69 to aid his master against
Lucullus; and Antiochus XIII., son of Antiochus X., seized the opportunity to recover the
kingdom. (App. Syr. 48, 49,
Mithr. 84, &c.; Plut. Luc. 25,
&c.; Just. 40.1, 2.) Justin
differs, apparently, from Appian in mentioning eighteen years as the period during which Syria
was held by the officer of Tigranes; but the numbers are satisfactorily reconciled by Clinton.
(F. H. vol. iii. p. 340.)