Mithradates
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Anabasis
One of Cyrus' faithful friends who comes with Ariaeus to the Greek camp.
Not all of them came, however, but Ariaeus, Artaozus, and Mithradates, who had been most faithful friends of Cyrus, did come;
Therefore if I should see that you were taking salutary measures, I should join you and bring all my retainers with me.
Thereupon Mithradates undertook to show that there was no possibility of their effecting a safe return unless the King so pleased.
Cyropaedia
Figure who betrays his father Ariobarzanes and is used as an example of later moral corruption.
now, on the other hand, if any one seems to bring some advantage to the king by evil-doing, whether as Mithradates did, by betraying his own father Ariobarzanes, or as a certain Rheomithres did, in violating his most sacred oaths and leaving his wife and children and the children of his friends behind as hostages in the power of the king of Egypt —such are the ones who now have the highest honours heaped upon them.