autem, now (in contrast to the action of the Roman generals). reliquum, that followed. Bosporanis, the people of Bosporus, a flourishing Grecian state, embracing the Crimea and adjoining lands. ad eos duces, i.e. Sertorius and his comrades. Sertorius was the ablest general of the Marian faction in the Civil Wars. After the victory of Sulla, and the complete overthrow of his own party elsewhere, he continued to hold Spain, where he attempted to found a new republic, entering into alliance with Mithridates and other enemies of Rome. gereretur (for fut. indic.): subj. of integral part. de imperio, for supremacy.
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