
037- Go East Young Man
The History of Rome
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The Second Mithridatic War
The Second Mithridatic War was a brief campaign during Sulla's dictatorship that saw Mithrid deities make some gains, but the Roman effort shut down by Sulla before it really got going. So historians call the events that are about to unfold the Third Mithridatic war,. though the second hardly counts at all, and I'll stick with convention and not try and reinvent the wheel. Licolis did not immediately pursue Mithridates, and instead spent the next few years consolidating Roman control in Anatolia. He then sent an ambassador to Armenia in 70 BC, demanding that to Grannis surrender Mithridates to the Romans, or risk war. The two armies met outside Armenia's new
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