He also made him a present of four hundred Galls [Galatians] as a guard for his body, which they had been to Cleopatra before.

Nor did any thing so strongly induce Caesar to make these presents as the generosity of him that received them.
4.

Moreover, after the first games at Actium, he added to his kingdom both the region called Trachonitis, and what lay in its neighborhood, Batanea, and the country of Auranitis; and that on the following occasion: Zenodorus, who had hired the house of Lysanias, had all along sent robbers out of Trachonitis among the Damascenes; who thereupon had recourse to Varro, the president of Syria, and desired of him that he would represent the calamity they were in to Caesar.

When Caesar was acquainted with it, he sent back orders that this nest of robbers should be destroyed.

Varro therefore made an expedition against them, and cleared the land of those men, and took it away from Zenodorus.