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Also in the speech which he wrote In Defence of Publius Sestius Cicero says within Mount Taurus in such a way as to mean, not on Mount Taurus, but as far as the mountain and including the mountain itself. These are Cicero's own words in the speech which I have mentioned: § 58 Our forbears, having overcome Antiochus the Great after a mighty struggle on land and sea, ordered him to confine his realm 'within Mount Taurus.' Asia, which they had taken from him, they gave to Attalus, to be his kingdom. Cicero says: They ordered him to confine his realm within Mount Taurus, which is not the same as when we say within the room, unless within the mountain may appear to mean what is within the regions which are separated by the interposition of Mount Taurus. This is the usage of the Greek geographers, such as Strabo, who uses e)/sw tou= i)sqmou= and e)/sw tou= Tau/rou in the sense of south of the isthmus and south of Taurus. For just as one who is within a room is not in the walls of the room, but is within the walls by which the room is enclosed, which walls themselves are yet equally in the room, just so one who rules within Mount Taurus, not only rules on Mount Taurus but also in those regions which are bounded by Mount Taurus.
