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Pompeius, still wanting the Cilician legions and not strong enough to maintain himself in this position without them, had to retire over the Euphrates and to seek protection from the cavalry and archers of the king in the wooded ground of Pontic Armenia extensively intersected by rocky ravines and deep valleys.
Lastly, a general arming of the coasts and particularly of the Thracian coast more immediately threatened by the Pontic fleet, was enjoined; and the task of clearing all the seas and coasts from the pirates and their Pontic allies was, by extraordinary decree, entrusted to a single magistrate, the choice falling on the praetor Marcus Antonius, the son of the man who thirty years before had first chastised the Cilician corsairs.
The beasts of burden and the baggage were sent off under convoy of the greater portion of the Pontic cavalry, with orders to steal away or break through at any cost; but at the river Rhyndacus, to the east of Cyzicus, Lucullus overtook them and cut to pieces the whole body.
So the ex-philosopher became a despot who, supported by his bands of Pontic mercenaries, commenced an infamous and bloody rule; and the Piraeeus was converted into a Pontic harbour. As soon as the troops of Mithradates gained a footing on the Greek continent, most of the small free states the Achaeans, Laconians, Boeotians as far as Thessaly joined them.
Amongst the pageantry of the Pontic triumph, a tablet with this inscription was carried before him: I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED ; not signifying, as other mottos on the like occasion, what was done, so much as the dispatch with which it was done.
Tigranes, it is true, ordered royal honours to be shown to his fugitive father-in-law; but he did not even invite him to his court, and detained him in the remote border-province to which he had come in a sort of decorous captivity. Pontus Becomes Roman Sieges of the Pontic Cities
Meanwhile Lucullus had possessed himself of a very strong position in rear of the Pontic army, which, although not permitting him directly to relieve the hard-pressed city, gave him the means of cutting off all supplies by land from the enemy.
IV. VII. Economic Crisis IV. VII. The Sulpician Laws IV. VII. Legislation of Sulla IV. IX. Government of Cinna IV. VIII. Orders Issued from Ephesus for A General Massacre IV. VIII. Thrace and Macedonia Occupied by the Pontic Armies. IV. VI. Roman Intervention III. XII. Roman Wealth IV. V. Taurisci III. VI. Pressure of the War II. VIII. Silver Standard of Value III. VI. Pressure of the War
IV. VII. Economic Crisis IV. VII. The Sulpician Laws IV. VII. Legislation of Sulla IV. IX. Government of Cinna IV. VIII. Orders Issued from Ephesus for A General Massacre IV. VIII. Thrace and Macedonia Occupied by the Pontic Armies. IV. VI. Roman Intervention III. XII. Roman Wealth IV. V. Taurisci III. VI. Pressure of the War II. VIII. Silver Standard of Value III. VI. Pressure of the War
Second Pontic Army Sent to Greece Battle of Orchomenus In the spring of 669 there was again fresh work in Europe.
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