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Usage examples of "mazaca".
Fed up with being ruled by a son of Mithridates and the grandson of his Pontic puppet, Gordius, the Cappadocians had been trying ever since Gaius Marius departed from Mazaca to find a truly Cappadocian king.
Within a month he presented himself at the court of his uncle Mithridates in Amaseia, and within a month more his uncle Mithridates had installed him alone on his throne in Mazaca, for the army of Pontus was permanently in a state of readiness, that of Cappadocia not.
They still had a long way to go to reach Eusebeia Mazaca, which, his guide told him, was the only urban settlement of any kind within Cappadocia.
And at its foot, he knew, lay Eusebeia Mazaca, the only city in Cappadocia.
The people of Mazaca had apparently gone into hiding, for the streets were utterly deserted, and when he arrived at the gate opening into the palace precinct, Marius found it unguarded.
Eusebeia Mazaca was attended to, the piles of bodies burned, and the ashes buried beneath a huge tumulus mound which dwindled to insignificance when seen against the bulk of Mount Argaeus, its backdrop.
King of Pontus reached the Halys, crossed it, and put his fifty thousand men into camp alongside the fifty thousand who already occupied Mazaca, he was met by Gordius, big with the most extraordinary news.
Eight days from now I march to Eusebeia Mazaca to put King Ariobarzanes back on his throne.
Eight days hence we march for Mazaca, and we pop Ariobarzanes back on his throne.
Mithridates and Tigranes rode in tandem to Eusebeia Mazaca and installed yet another son of Mithridates on the throne.
Eusebeia Mazaca was only forty miles northward across the wide shallow slope of the Halys basin.
Eusebeia Mazaca, where Ariobarzanes Philoromaios, the King, donated what he could to the baggage train and wished Lucullus a doleful well.
We can pick it up at the top of the Cilician Gates, then we march for Eusebeia Mazaca and King Ariobarzanes, who will just have to find troops, no matter how impoverished Cappadocia is.
The old king was killed on the spot and his palace plus the temples of Eusebeia Mazaca plundered to little effect.
He had ridden with these men from Constantinople to Ancyra to Caesarea Mazaca.