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n. (plural of mithridate English)
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Mithridates or Mithradates ( Old Persian Mithradata) is the Hellenistic form of a Parthian theophoric name, meaning "given by the deity Mithra". It may refer to:
Mithridates or Mithradates (; killed 334 BC) was a Persian of high rank, and son-in-law of the king Darius III, who was slain by Alexander the Great with his own hand, at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC, when he plunged his lance through Mithridates' face.
Mithridates (died 401 BC) was a young Persian soldier in the army of king Artaxerxes II who according to a version in Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes II, accidentally killed the rebel claimant to the throne Cyrus the Younger in the Battle of Cunaxa ( Greek: Κούναξα).
Usage examples of "mithridates".
Until, that is, she succumbed to the blandishments of old King Nicomedes of Bithynia, for she fancied ruling independently of Mithridates and his Cappadocian watchdog, Gordius.
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.
Galatia by King Nicomedes of Bithynia on the west and Mithridates on the east.
Probably nothing, beyond the normal squabbling between Nicomedes of Bithynia and Mithridates of Pontus.
We all know that Bithynia and Pontus are traditional enemies, and we all know that both King Nicomedes and King Mithridates would love to expand, at least within Anatolia.
Though it does fall within our sphere, it seems to me that both Nicomedes and young Mithridates have assumed Cappadocia is a little too remote and a little too unimportant for Rome to go to war about.
No, Nicomedes can hardly be expected to give Mithridates his due, can he?
Nicomedes has only just managed to hang on to what he had at the beginning of his reign, while Mithridates is a conqueror.
King Attalus III of Pergamum, sold more than half the territory of Phrygia to the father of the present King Mithridates of Pontus for a sum of gold he had popped into his own purse.
Still frowning, Mithridates returned his attention to the letter from Battaces, and began to chew his lip again.
Had Ariarathes already concluded a bargain with the Romans to have Mithridates Eupator off his throne, turn Pontus into a satrapy of Cappadocia?
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.
Pontus would retain the title Friend and Ally of the Roman People, earned by the fourth King Mithridates when he assisted the second Attalus of Pergamum in his war against King Prusias of Bithynia.
Bithynian enmity or no, the fifth Mithridates had continued his expansionist policies, drawing Galatia into his net, and then succeeding in getting himself named heir to most of Paphlagonia.
Laodice murdered the husband who was also her brother, and put Mithridates Chrestos, aged eleven, on the throne.