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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
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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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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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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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Mithradates broke off his siege at
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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631:
627:
612:
595:
582:
579:Long, George
573:
550:
539:
530:
529:, 12.5, and
523:
483:
471:
465:
456:
417:
398:
387:
371:
363:
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211:
210:calls him a
201:
198:pro praetore
197:
187:
153:(72 million
143:
117:
113:
109:
95:
72:Gaius Marius
69:
55:
19:
18:
564:6.2 (Latin)
502:crucifixion
194:proconsular
175:Paphlagonia
32:proquaestor
1244:Categories
1204:Plutarch,
1195:6.2.21–22.
1179:Keaveney,
1150:Keaveney,
1141:Memnon 28.
1128:Plutarch,
1098:Keaveney,
1074:Plutarch,
1059:Plutarch,
1046:Keaveney,
1035:Pro Murena
844:Plutarch,
736:6.2.21–22.
706:Plutarch's
676:References
664:E. Gabba,
628:Plutarch's
621:Appendix 2
522:Plutarch,
490:popularist
462:In fiction
401:siegecraft
265:See also:
179:Cappadocia
114:proscripti
106:proscribed
1013:Companion
989:, p. 185.
987:Companion
960:, p. 198.
943:, p. 145.
852:, p. 202.
846:Sertorius
762:, p. 182.
708:Sertorius
630:Sertorius
562:Orosius,
476:manliness
394:Lampsacus
313:Chalcedon
254:populares
226:publicani
213:stratêgos
155:sesterces
97:populares
90:who fled
1206:Lucullus
1183:, p. 85.
1181:Lucullus
1152:Lucullus
1130:Lucullus
1113:Lucullus
1102:, p. 78.
1100:Lucullus
1061:Lucullus
1050:, p. 77.
1048:Lucullus
1017:Lucullus
1011:Konrad,
985:Konrad,
939:McGing,
926:Appian,
831:Konrad,
810:Appian,
758:Konrad,
745:Konrad,
714:Plutarch
556:Memnon,
538:Appian,
485:cognomen
436:Achaeans
413:Granicus
247:and the
208:Plutarch
203:imperium
171:Bithynia
167:province
159:Anatolia
126:bounties
88:senators
84:Perperna
24:quaestor
1193:Orosius
975:online.
952:Gabba,
880:online.
799:Cyzicus
781:Eupator
734:Orosius
722:Orosius
670:online.
653:online.
636:online.
600:online.
587:online.
509:Sources
494:legions
448:triumph
432:Tenedos
424:Mommsen
405:Aesepus
379:Isauria
375:Pisidia
367:Cyzicus
354:Phrygia
321:Phrygia
317:triumph
305:Cilicia
285:bequest
241:Fimbria
218:praetor
183:Galatia
151:talents
102:Orosius
80:Arpinum
26:of the
1154:p. 84.
1117:contra
907:Stangl
822:23–24.
720:, and
718:Memnon
551:Varius
547:76, 77
444:Scyros
440:Lemnos
428:Aegean
420:Eunuch
411:) and
390:Parium
358:Otryae
348:pithos
332:Pontus
181:, and
60:Appian
56:Varius
34:under
22:was a
1270:Marii
1208:12.5.
1079:8.6–7
886:plebs
558:28–29
534:23–24
409:Gönen
383:Lydia
337:Iznik
110:fugas
92:Sulla
76:Marii
44:Spain
905:95 (
814:68:
785:Asia
619:and
442:and
392:and
377:and
291:was
163:Asia
1132:10.
783:in
527:8.5
147:aid
78:of
58:in
42:in
38:'s
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1229:,
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1064:8.
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