Mithridates

• Of all the horrors and atrocities that occurred during my war with Mithridates, the siege of Amisus caused me the greatest despair. —  EQMM, May 2005
• There was a war to be waged with Mithridates, a very powerful Asiatic monarch, which promised great opportunities for acquiring fame and plunder. —  History of Julius Caesar
• He crossed the Bosphorus with fifty thousand men; he invaded Pontus; he inflicted a decisive defeat on Mithridates, and broke up his army; he drove the Armenians back into their own mountains, and extorted out of them a heavy war indemnity. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• Thus we are vaguely reminded of Mithridates, the Pontic King, who made himself immune to poisons by their daily employment. —  Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
• They pass the Zabatus are harassed by Mithridates, and suffer from the want of slingers and cavalry. —  The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis

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