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Mithridates VI
[ mith-ri-dey-teez ]
noun
- the Great, 132?–63 b.c., king of Pontus 120–63.
Mithridates VI
/ ˌmɪθrɪˈdeɪtiːz /
noun
- Mithridates VI?132 bc63 bcMPontusPOLITICS: hereditary ruler called the Great. ?132–63 bc , king of Pontus (?120–63). He waged three wars against Rome (88–84; 83–81; 74–64) and was finally defeated by Pompey: committed suicide
Example Sentences
Mithridates VI, last king of Pontos, ruled most of the Black Sea coast, clashed with the Roman empire and was defeated in 66 bc.
Mithridates VI, the king of Pontus, ruled over one of the countries that fell into the large, diverse and culturally vibrant land that the Metropolitan Museum of Art calls “The World Between Empires.”
Mithridates VI, who ruled Pontus, a Persian satrapy on the Black Sea, during the second and first centuries B.C., survived a poisoning attempt by his mother, Queen Laodice, after his father was poisoned.
According to Pliny the Elder, the Greco-Persian king Mithridates VI, who ruled twenty-two nations in the first century B.C., “administered their laws in as many languages, and could harangue in each of them.”
Mithridates VI of the Arsacidae begins his reign and prepares the elevation of Parthia to great power.
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