The Roman military has not been very…
62 BCE
The Roman military has not been very successful in their campaigns against the Nabataeans.
In 62 BCE, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus accepts a bribe of three hundred talents to lift the siege of Petra, partly because of the difficult terrain and the fact Scaurus has run out of food provisions.
Hyrcanus, who is a friend of Aretas, is dispatched by Scaurus to the King to buy peace.
In so obtaining peace, King Aretas retains his whole possessions, including Damascus, and becomes a Roman vassal.
The country remains independent but pays imperial taxes.
(Roman policy seems to have been to maintain Nabataea as a buffer state against the desert tribes.
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