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At forty years of age, having held his throne now for twenty-three years, the sixth King Mithridates, called Eupator, had learned to conceal all save his mightiest displeasures.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Born in the same year Scipio Aemilianus had died so mysteriously, Mithridates called Eupator had had a brother less than two years older than himself, called Mithridates Chrestos because he was the anointed one, the chosen king.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Whereas Gaius Marius contends that this sixth Mithridates — called Eupator, of all things! — starved his mother to death, killed the brother who was King under the mother’s regency, killed several of his uncles and cousins, and then finished things off by poisoning the sister to whom he was married!
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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The tyrant and foremost enemy of the Roman people Mithridates Eupator, in the sixty-eighth year of his life, is dead.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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He remarks that this prince was stoned in the temple of Nanneus; and those who would excuse the stupidity pretend that he here speaks of Antiochus Eupator; but neither Epiphanes nor Eupator was stoned.
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Some got the name of him who first found them out, knew them, sowed them, improved them by culture, qualified them to tractability, and appropriated them to the uses and subserviences they were fit for, as the Mercuriale from Mercury; Panacea from Panace, the daughter of Aesculapius; Armois from Artemis, who is Diana; Eupatoria from the king Eupator; Telephion from Telephus; Euphorbium from
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The figure and shape of the leaves thereof is not much different from that of those of the ash-tree, or of agrimony; the herb itself being so like the Eupatorian plant that many skilful herbalists have called it the Domestic Eupator, and the Eupator the Wild
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The figure and shape of the leaves thereof is not much different from that of those of the ash-tree, or of agrimony; the herb itself being so like the Eupatorian plant that many skilful herbalists have called it the Domestic Eupator, and the Eupator the Wild
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Some got the name of him who first found them out, knew them, sowed them, improved them by culture, qualified them to tractability, and appropriated them to the uses and subserviences they were fit for, as the Mercuriale from Mercury; Panacea from Panace, the daughter of Aesculapius; Armois from Artemis, who is Diana; Eupatoria from the king Eupator; Telephion from Telephus; Euphorbium from
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Antiochus V Eupator, with Lysias as regent, succeeded his father Antiochus IV, who died campaigning against the Parthians.
223-187 2001
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