. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. things so quicklyas he did. Mithradates VI. Eupator, surnamed the Great, came tothe throne of the little kingdom of Pontus in the year His extraordinary career impressed deeply the imagi-nation of his times, and his deedsand fame have come down to usdisguised and distorted by bodily frame and strength wereimmense, and his activity ccfuld carry on conversation, itis said, in twenty-two of the differ-ent languages of his subjects. But Mithradates theMithradates, notwithstanding the t
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. things so quicklyas he did. Mithradates VI. Eupator, surnamed the Great, came tothe throne of the little kingdom of Pontus in the year His extraordinary career impressed deeply the imagi-nation of his times, and his deedsand fame have come down to usdisguised and distorted by bodily frame and strength wereimmense, and his activity ccfuld carry on conversation, itis said, in twenty-two of the differ-ent languages of his subjects. But Mithradates theMithradates, notwithstanding the that his mother was a Syrian Greek and he himselfwas familiar with Greek culture, was, in his instincts andimpulses, a typical oriental barbarian. In the course of a few years, Mithradates by virtue ofhis resourcefulness and marvellous activity had pushedout, by conquest and negotiations, the boundaries of hislittle hereditary kingdom until it almost encircled theEuxine, which became practically a Pontic sea. He nowaudaciously encroached upon the Roman possessions in. 248 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. Asia Minor, took prisoner a Roman magistrate, and sub-jected him to the most ignominious treatment. The nativesof the Roman province of Asia, including the Greek cities,hailed him as their deliverer. 169. Mithradates orders a General Massacre of Italians inAsia ($>% ). —Aware that a Roman army would soon bein iVsia, Mithradates now took the resolve to destroy at asingle blow all the Italians in the country, so that theRomans should not have their aid in the struggle that heforesaw to be near at hand. He accordingly sent orders tothe magistrates throughout the country that on a certainday every Italian, without distinction of age or sex, shouldbe put to death and their bodies thrown out without were enjoined and encouraged through promisedrewards to kill their masters, and those in debt to slaytheir debtors. This savage order was almost everywhere carried out to thelett
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