Gaul and the West stood firm; but the horsemen of the Parthians were seen in Syria and on the western shore of Asia. […] Cicero in Asia (Ad Q. fratrem 1, 1, 10), the latter belonged to a family on friendly terms with M. […] Aufidius, once a publicanus, but rising to be governor of Asia (Val. […] There were no legions at all in Asia and in Bithynia, only two in the Cisalpina. […] Servilius may not have been a man of action yet he governed the province of Asia for Caesar with some credit in 46-44 B.C.