Mithridates

We find in Appian’s history of the Mithridatic war, that it was upon this very ground Murena objected to the convention between Sylla and Mithridates.

Thus the Roman people by the victories of Pompey acquired all the territories, which Mithridates had gained by conquest.

Yet their situation at that time excused their conduct, over powered by the arms of Mithridates, they were obliged to submit to a foe within, while they had to sustain a siege from their friends without.

and Mithridates of Pontus was himself called Dionysus too;

For if your faith from so long a time, and goodwill toward their people, and partnership in every fortune, cannot make your constitution secure — nor Mithridates being overthrown, nor Antiochus, nor the rule of the sea handed over through many dangers and toils, nor the oaths of friendship from so many years ago, nor the monuments lying beside Zeus himself until now, nor the power that shared dang …

What drew him into Africa, what into the north, what against Mithridates and Armenia and all the corners of Asia?

We have seen Ptolemy, king of Africa, and Mithridates of Armenia among the guards of Gaius;

Mithridates too, from a dream, I learn from Strabo, took possession of Pontus;