(Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1881, pp. 537-542), in which Q. Æmilius Secundus relates that he was sent by Quirinius against the Itureans in Mount Lebanon. In 38 Caligula gave Iturea to a certain Soemus , who is called by Dio Cassius (lix. 12) and by Tacitus (Annals, xii. 23) "king of the Itureans."