thout attendant or groom to accompany him,
fled from the camp mingled with the rest, and was not able to get even
one of the royal horses, till at last the eunuch Ptolemaeus, who was
mounted, spied him as he was hurried along in the stream of
fugitives, and leaping down from his horse gave it to the king. The
Romans, who were following in pursuit, were now close upon the king,
and so far as it was a matter of speed they were under no difficulty
about taking him, and they came very near it; but greediness and
mercenary motives snatched from the Romans the prey which they had so
long followed up in many battles and great dangers, and robbed
Lucullus of the crowning triumph to his victory; for the horse which
was carrying Mithridates was just within reach of his pursuers, when
it happened that one of the mules which was conveying the king's gold
either fell into the hands of the enemy accidentally, or was purposely
thrown in their way by the king's orders, and while the soldiers were
plundering it and getting together the gold, and fighting with one
another, they were left behind. And this was not the only loss that
Lucullus sustained from their greediness; he had given his men orders
to bring to him Kallistratus, who had the charge of all the king's
secrets; but those who were taking him to Lucullus, finding that he
had five hundred gold pieces in his girdle, put him to death. However,
Lucullus allowed his men to plunder the camp.

XVIII. After taking Kabeira and most of the other forts Lucullus found
in them great treasures, and also places of confinement, in which many
Greeks and many kinsmen of the king were shut up; and, as they had
long considered themselves as dead, they were indebted to the kindness
of Lucullus, not for their rescue, but for restoration to life and a
kind of second birth. A sister also of Mithridates, Nyssa, was
captured, and so saved her life; but the women who were supposed to be
the farthest from danger, and to be securely lodged at Phernakia,[373]
the sisters and wives of Mithridates, came to a sad end, pursuant to
the order of Mithridates, which he sent Bacchides,[374] a eunuch, to
execute, when he was compelled to take to flight. Among many other
women there were two sisters of the king, Roxana and Statira, each
about forty years of age and unmarried; and two of his wives, Ionian
women, one of them named Berenike from Chios, and the other Monime a
Milesian. Monime was much talked of among the