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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... to Italy. This is called the Second Mithridatic 'War. Mithri-dates made use of this leisure to subdue the inhabitants of the Bosporus, the people in the south part of the Crimea (Mithrid. c. 67), and he gave them his son Machares as king. Mithridates still held part of Cappadocia, but he gave it up on receiving an order from Sulla. The death of Sulla (b.c. 78) relieved Mithridates from all further fear, and his first measure was to persuade Tigranes to enter Cappadocia. Tigranes carried off a great number of the people, whom ho settled in his new city of Tigranocerta. The Romans knew that Mithridates had instigated Tigranes, but they were at the time too busy with the war in Spain against Sertorius to do any thing in the East. Sertorius, who was striving to raise all the world against the Romans, concluded an alliance with Mithridates, by which it was agreed that the king should have the provincia Asia, with Bithynia, Papblagonia, and Galatia. This the third Mithridatic war was begun B.c. 74 by Mithridatea invading Bithynia, which had come into the possession of the Romans on the death of Nicomcdes III. L. Aurelius Cotta the governor of Bithynia fled to Chalcedon, where he was defeated by the invader. The Greek cities which had suffered so terribly under the Roman farmers of the taxes (publicani) and the extortion of the Eoman money lenders, welcomed Mithridates as their deliverer. The king was engaged in the siege of the rich and populous city of Cyzicus, when L. Licinius Lucul-lus, to whom the command in the war had been given, arrived with fire legions and encamped close to Mithridates (b.c. 73). He compelled Mithridates to raise the siege and to retreat precipitately, which was the beginning of a course of brilliant successes, which...
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Marcus Tullis Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman and philosopher whose lifetime coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman republic. His best-known works include On the Republic, On Duties, and Treatises on Friendship and Old Age.
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150923032
- ISBN 13 9781150923036
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages262
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