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THIRD OR GREAT MITHRIDATIC WAR. B.C. 74–61.
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SECOND MITHRIDATIC WAR—
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Murena invades Pontus
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Mithridates defeats Murena
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End of the Second Mithridatic War
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Preparations of Mithridates
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71.
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THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR—
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Mithridates defeats the Consul Cotta
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He lays siege to Cyzicus
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The siege is raised by Lucullus
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Lucullus defeats Mithridates
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71.
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Mithridates takes refuge in Armenia
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70.
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Lucullus settles the affairs of Asia
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He invades Armenia and defeats Tigranes
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Lucullus defeats Tigranes and Mithridates, and lays siege to Nisibis
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Mithridates returns to Pontus and defeats the generals of Lucullus
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Mutiny in the army of Lucullus
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The command of the Mithridatic War given to Glabrio
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WAR WITH THE PIRATES—
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Account of the Pirates
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Command of the war given by the Gabinian Law to Pompey
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Success of Pompey
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He finishes the war
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THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR CONTINUED
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Command of the Mithridatic War given by the Manilian Law to Pompey
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It is opposed by the aristocracy
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It is supported by Cicero
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Pompey defeats Mithridates
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Mithridates retires into the Cimmerian Bosporus
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Pompey invades Armenia
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Submission of Tigranes
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Pompey pursues Mithridates
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He advances as far as the River Phasis
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He returns to Pontus, which he reduces to the form of a Roman province
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He marches into Syria, which he makes a Roman province
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He subdues Phœnicia and Palestine
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He takes Jerusalem
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Preparations of Mithridates
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Conspiracy against him
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His death
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Pompey settles the affairs of Asia
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