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Mithridates VI of Pontus

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mithridates

also: Mithridates, Mithridaten, Mithridates Eupator

King of Pontus (c.135–63 BC), Rome's most formidable eastern adversary across three wars, finally broken by Pompey and driven to suicide.

Reading notes

Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.94.65 Mithridates
Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus and Rome's great eastern enemy, finally defeated by Pompey — the war that made Pompey's name.

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