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137: 403:, he failed to take Cyzicus and its rich stores. Lucullus blocked inland supply routes. The multitudinous Pontic troops were weakened and reduced by famine and plague, and finally Mithradates was compelled to retreat by ship. He placed 30,000 ground troops under the command of Marius and Hermaios. They enabled the king to escape, but lost 11,000 men at the 446:; Lucullus then sent infantry by land across Neae to their rear, killing many and forcing the rest back to sea. Lucullus sunk or captured 32 ships of the royal fleet provided by Mithradates and additional transport vessels. Dionysios committed suicide, but Alexandros was captured and held for display in Lucullus's anticipated 372:
Mithradates' motive for this siege has sometimes been construed as retribution for the aid given by Cyzicus to the Romans at Chalcedon, but was also a strategic decision. Cyzicus was weakened from losing a significant number of troops at Chalcedon, and its capture would provide him with an abundant
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Like Sertorius himself, Marius at some point had lost an eye; when Lucullus gave the order to track down enemy survivors, he specified that no one-eyed men should be killed, so that he could personally oversee the renegade's death: "Lucullus wished Marius to die under the most shameful insults."
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No battle occurred. For Marius, delay posed a logistical problem. He had only a few days of supplies for his troops. Lucullus learned of the shortage through prisoner interrogations and decided to wait him out. Marius was forced to move on without the fight he had sought, but the delay allowed
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and then lopped off his hands, feet, nose, and ears, pruning him like a fig tree in winter. It was a deliberately brutal message, and its effect was not lost, for it caused most of the other exiled Romans fighting for Pontus to scatter in discouragement."
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and much-needed food supply, as well as access to an excellent harbor and major inland routes. After taking up a position, he divided his forces for a three-prong invasion of the interior. His general Eumachus headed to Phrygia, where he advanced into
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The timing of the fleet's departure for Spain is not altogether clear in the ancient sources, and reconstructions by modern scholars place it variously: before Marius went East, shortly after his arrival, or after Mithradates broke off his siege at
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Sertorius sent Marcus Marius as a military advisor and his representative to Mithradates during the protracted negotiations between the two over an alliance. By 75 BC, Mithradates offered to recognize Sertorius as head of the Roman state, and sent
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But presently, as they were on the point of joining battle, with no apparent change of weather, but all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies. In shape, it was most like a wine-jar
478:: "I eat like a soldier, I march like a soldier, and by the gods I fight like a soldier — a Roman soldier." Ford imagines that this Marius was a nephew of the seven-time consul — a grandnephew would be more likely, since the consul's nephew 310:
Lucullus landed in Anatolia during the fall of 74. Mithradates saw his opportunity, and invaded Cappadocia and Bithynia. During this period, Marcus Marius served as advisor and co-commander to the Pontic king. At
339:). Although Lucullus commanded 30,000 infantry and 2,500 horse, he was daunted by the size of the opposing army and reluctant to engage. The arrival of an omen, as reported by Plutarch, was thus fortuitous: 334:
with its rich potential for loot. Lucullus preferred to concentrate on Mithridates himself, and headed toward Chalcedon. Marius blocked and confronted him. They faced off at Otroea near Nicaea (present-day
192:, he entered at least two Asian cities and granted them and a number of others independent status and tax exemptions on behalf of the Sertorian government; in effect, he assumed possession of Asia with 974: 229:) and by the "rapacity and insolence" of the soldiers stationed there. Marius's policy is consistent with that of Sertorius in cultivating the goodwill of the provincials under his government. 385:. Lucius Magius remained with Mithradates and appears from this point to have begun misleading him, perhaps because he had heard what may have been still only a rumor of Sertorius's death. 599: 396:, rejoining the Pontic forces only later in the siege; this is not entirely clear in the ancient sources, which may be recounting operations he conducted earlier upon arrival. 319:
he didn't want to share. Cotta was instead crushed and forced to withdraw within the town. Marius held joint command with Mithradates' general Eumachos at Chalcedon and in
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Mithradates permitted Marius to assert Roman primacy as agreed. The treaty with the Pontic king was concluded in the summer of 74, in anticipation of what would become the
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According to some reconstructions of events, it was at this time that Marius assumed the governorship of the Roman province of Asia, where he gained immediate control of
86:, but no further association is recorded with the man who was the prime instigator of Sertorius's assassination a few years later. Given that Marcus Marius was among the 787:, does seem to indicate that the king treated Sertorius in something like the same way that Sertorius treated himself — as the leader of a government in exile" (p. 142). 287:. Sertorius probably made his arrangements before that time, or at least before he was aware that the death had created a new Roman province in Anatolia. Its first 861:
The start date of the Third Mithridatic War has been a vexed scholarly question divided into camps advocating the spring either of 74 or of 73; see McGing,
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were fixtures of some longevity at the Pontic court. None of these men was a political moderate, and all had strong ties to vehement or even extremist
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Plutarch; Keaveney has Mithradates sending ships to Sertorius only at this point, which likely would mean they arrived only after his assassination.
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Sertorius and M. Marius were not the only Romans who preferred an alliance to a war with Mithradates. Two former officers of the notorious
801:. Konrad argues that the fleet was sent after Marius's arrival and probably arrived in Spain sometime between summer 75 and spring 74. 669: 574:
The following 19th-century historians present narrative reconstructions of strategy and military operations at Chalcedon and Cyzicus:
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in Bithynia when he received news of Cotta's defeat. His soldiers urged him to leave Cotta to his own folly and march on undefended
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In Plutarch's view, the province welcomed the new regime, because it had been oppressed by Rome's tax collectors and contractors (
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Gratidianus, died in the proscriptions — and that his presence at the Pontic court was meant to draw the support of
112:(φυγάς), a fugitive or exile, in keeping with the "peculiar legal situation" of Sertorius's men, some of whom were 454:. Marius at first escaped, possibly from a sinking ship, since he was later found ashore taking refuge in a cave. 120:, "public enemies." In both cases, their lives and property were forfeit, and their sons and grandsons lost the 1254: 1259: 430:, but Lucullus mounted an attack against them. He captured a detachment of 13 ships between the island of 266: 542: 775:(Brill, 1986), notes that "it is not completely clear whether Mithridates treated with Sertorius as a 422:"), he was placed in joint command of 50 ships and 10,000 handpicked men, among them, in the words of 890: 479: 1279: 780: 280: 244: 47: 546: 451: 418:
Marius then took to the sea. Along with Alexandros the Paphlagonian and Dionysios Eunuchos ("the
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who had served under Fimbria. Ford's fictional description of Marius's execution recalls the
233: 162: 83: 51: 94:, his politics are not likely to have been antithetical to those of the better-known Marian 276: 150: 8: 1226: 776: 467: 39: 717: 248: 408: 157:) and a fleet of 40 ships; in return, he asked that Sertorius recognize his claims in 910: 668:(1976) 120 ff for analysis of Sertorius's policy toward Mithradates. Limited preview 331: 279:
thus continued in the East and merged into the Third Mithridatic War. In late 75 BC,
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90; this long friendship, however, ended with Attidius's execution in a conspiracy.
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Orosius reports that he atoned for his rebellious spirit with penalties he earned.
381:. Metrophanes and the Roman renegade Lucius Fannius penetrated as far as northeast 500:: "he had Marius mounted on a crosstree in that barbaric exercise the Romans call 307:
and eventually Asia, along with the chief command of the war against Mithradates.
1163: 591: 475: 423: 125: 563: 474:(2004). He is depicted as maintaining a rugged and arrogant ideal of Republican 1269: 1192: 956:, places Magius in particular among the "extremists" (p. 59). See also Konrad, 779:, or as a rebel. … Plutarch's story, however, of Marius taking precedence over 733: 721: 435: 412: 300: 288: 166: 101: 27: 1243: 906: 447: 400: 327: 316: 640:
Konrad, Christoph F. "From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133–70)." In
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and acquired — he insisted — legitimately, but he asserted no rights over
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implies, but does not directly state, that he was on the list of the
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C.F. Konrad, "From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133–70)," in
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sympathizers supposed to have been among Lucullus's forces from the
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call him Marius in contexts that indicate the same man is meant.
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Despite the size of Mithradates' forces and his awe-inspiring
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and acquire a more ambitious playing field: the provinces of
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The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
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The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
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No connection has been established between this Marius and
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On the politics of Magius and Fannius, see Emilio Gabba,
695:(American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 93. 146: 185:; these, he said, "had nothing to do with the Romans." 712:, (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 200. 450:. Among the dead were a number of men who had been on 161:. Sertorius reserved in his own name Rome's claim to 519:
Livy 91 fr. 22.70 W-M (= Loeb vol. 14, p. 194)
295:, the consul of 74. The other consul of that year, 65: 1111:This sequence of events is presented by Keaveney, 1241: 54:. He is named as or more likely confused with a 878:(University of California Press, 1976), p. 113 365:Mithradates to leave Chalcedon and set out for 623:: "When did the Third Mithridatic War begin?" 260: 50:as an advisor and military commander in the 666:Republican Rome: The Armies and the Allies 188:Marius went East with troops. Bearing the 1029:) 434 F (1.28.3) = Memnon 28–29; Appian, 1022:Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 954:Republican Rome, the Army, and the Allies 876:Republican Rome, The Army, and the Allies 569: 1233:(St. Martin's Press, 2004), pp. 227–228. 605: 326:Lucullus was camped somewhere along the 135: 470:'s historical novel about Mithradates, 283:died, leaving his kingdom to Rome as a 1242: 1085:translation, Bill Thayer's edition at 973:(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 2010), p. 185 216:(στρατηγός), "general," rather than a 131: 1275:People executed by the Roman Republic 1033:68, 76, 77; Orosius 6.2; and Cicero, 693:The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 585:. London, 1869, vol. 3, p. 9ff. 271:With the alliance between Pontus and 124:, but the proscribed in addition had 1231:The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy 472:The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy 13: 658: 513: 46:. Marius was sent by Sertorius to 14: 1296: 971:A Companion to the Roman Republic 941:The Foreign Policy of Mithridates 642:A Companion to the Roman Republic 909:). Appian is misleading, or the 466:Marcus Marius is a character in 66:Family and political connections 1220: 1211: 1198: 1186: 1173: 1157: 1144: 1135: 1122: 1105: 1092: 1068: 1053: 1040: 1005: 992: 979: 963: 946: 933: 920: 896: 868: 855: 838: 651:. Brill, 1986. Limited preview 434:and the mainland harbor of the 196:powers. His authority was held 1285:People of the Mithridatic Wars 825: 804: 790: 765: 752: 739: 727: 698: 682: 644:. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 2010. 1: 1265:Executed ancient Roman people 863:Foreign Policy of Mithridates 675: 583:Decline of the Roman Republic 461: 498:dismemberment of Gratidianus 7: 1037:33 (where he is not named). 553:(Οὐάριος) instead of Marius 267:Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC) 10: 1301: 508: 452:Sulla's proscription lists 264: 261:Military command and death 116:, and others of whom were 74:or the other contemporary 16:Roman quaestor and general 1250:1st-century BC executions 1002:(Routledge, 1992), p. 77. 816:mêden prosêkonta Rômaiois 710:: A Historical Commentary 632:: A Historical Commentary 598:. vol. 4, p. 326ff. 165:, already organized as a 1019:8.5 and 12.2–5; Memnon, 297:Lucius Licinius Lucullus 281:Nicomedes IV of Bithynia 1083:Loeb Classical Library 835:, pp. 187 and 201–202. 570:19th-century histories 362: 141: 140:Coin of Mithradates VI 1255:1st-century BC Romans 911:text has been misread 891:M. Marius Gratidianus 882:A Publius Magius was 704:Christoph F. 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Index

quaestor
Roman Republic
proquaestor
Quintus Sertorius
government in exile
Spain
Mithradates of Pontus
Third Mithridatic War
Appian
Gaius Marius
Marii
Arpinum
Perperna
senators
Sulla
populares
Orosius
proscribed
rights of citizenship
bounties

aid
talents
sesterces
Anatolia
Asia
province
Bithynia
Paphlagonia
Cappadocia

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