Chapter XXX

THIRD OR GREAT MITHRIDATIC WAR. B.C. 74-61.

83. SECOND MITHRIDATIC WAR--

Murena invades Pontus 205

83. Mithridates defeats Murena 205

End of the Second Mithridatic War 205

Preparations of Mithridates 206

71. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR--

Mithridates defeats the Consul Cotta 206

He lays siege to Cyzicus 206

73. The siege is raised by Lucullus 207

Lucullus defeats Mithridates 207

71. Mithridates takes refuge in Armenia 207

70. Lucullus settles the affairs of Asia 207

69. He invades Armenia and defeats Tigranes 208

68. Lucullus defeats Tigranes and Mithridates, and lays
siege to Nisibis 208

67. Mithridates returns to Pontus and defeats the generals
of Lucullus 208

Mutiny in the army of Lucullus 208

The command of the Mithridatic War given to Glabrio 209

WAR WITH THE PIRATES--
Account of the Pirates 209
Command of the war given by the Gabinian Law to Pompey 210
Success of Pompey 210
He finishes the war 210

66. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR CONTINUED 210

Command of the Mithridatic War given by the Manilian Law
to Pompey 210

It is opposed by the aristocracy 211

It is supported by Cicero 211

Pompey defeats Mithridates 211

Mithridates retires into the Cimmerian Bosporus 211

Pompey invades Armenia 212

Submission of Tigranes 212

65. Pompey pursues Mithridates 212

He advances as far as the River Phasis 212

He returns to Pontus, which he reduces to the form of
a Roman province 212

64. He marches into Syria, which he makes a Roman province 212

63. He subdues Phoenicia and Palestine 212

He takes Jerusalem 212

Preparations of Mithridates 213

Conspiracy against him 213

His death 213

Pompey settles the affairs of Asia 213

62. He returns to Italy 213