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The details of the campaign have not been preserved, but we are told that the first serious encounter resulted in a decisive victory for the Roman arms. The pretender fled, and was finally hunted down to the southern part of his dominions. His last stand was made at Stratonicea in Caria. The town was blockaded and reduced by famine, and Aristonicus surrendered unconditionally to the Roman power.
His father had helped the Romans in the third Punic War, had been styled the friend of Rome, and had been rewarded with the province of Phrygia nominally for his services against Aristonicus, the pretender to the kingdom of Attalus, but had been deprived of it afterwards when it was found out that really it had been put up for auction by Manius Aquillius, who was completing the subjugation of the adherents of the pretender.
A corps under Diophantus advanced into Cappadocia, to occupy the fortresses there and to close the way to the kingdom of Pontus against the Romans; the leader sent by Sertorius, the propraetor Marcus Marius, went in company with the Pontic officer Eumachus to Phrygia, with a view to rouse the Roman province and the Taurus mountains to revolt; the main army, above 100,000 men with 16,000 cavalry and 100 scythe-chariots, led by Taxiles and Hermocrates under the personal superintendence of the king, and the war-fleet of 400 sail commanded by Aristonicus, moved along the north coast of Asia Minor to occupy Paphlagonia and Bithynia.
But the Ephesians, not content with mere repudiation, manned a fleet, sailed against him, and inflicted a severe defeat on his naval force off Cyme. Evidently the commercial spirit had no liking for his schemes; it saw in the Roman protectorate the promise of a wider commerce and a broader civic freedom. Aristonicus moved into the interior, at first perhaps as a refugee, but soon as a liberator.
Along with such recreations he wrote treatises on gardening, reared poisonous plants, and prepared wax models, till a sudden death carried him off. Province of Asia War against Aristonicus With him the house of the Attalids became extinct.
Mithridates, himself fully determined upon flight, as mere delays and diversions for Lucullus, sent his admiral Aristonicus to the Greek sea; who, however, was betrayed in the very instant of going off, and Lucullus became master of him, and ten thousand pieces of gold which he was carrying with him to corrupt some of the Roman army.
III. XII. Pastoral Husbandry III. I. The Carthaginian Dominion in Africa III. VI. Guerilla War in Sicily III. XII. Falling Off in the Population IV. I. War against Aristonicus IV. I. Cilicia Even now there are not unfrequently found in front of Castrogiovanni, at the point where the ascent is least abrupt, Roman projectiles with the name of the consul of 621: L. Piso L. f. cos.
III. VII. Gracchus IV. I. War against Aristonicus IV. I. Mancinus II. III. Licinio-Sextian Laws II. III. Its Influence in Legislation IV. I. War against Aristonicus II. III. Attempts at Counter-Revolution
IV. I. War against Aristonicus IV. II. Ideas of Reform III. VI. The African Expedition of Scipio To this occasion belongs his oration -contra legem iudiciariam- Ti. IV. II. Vote by Ballot
Along with such recreations he wrote treatises on gardening, reared poisonous plants, and prepared wax models, till a sudden death carried him off. Province of Asia War against Aristonicus With him the house of the Attalids became extinct.
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