ry, Sulla said,
"You then, Archelaus, who are a Cappadocian, and the slave of a
barbarian king, or, if you please, his friend--you refuse to do a base
deed for so splendid a reward, and yet venture to talk about treachery
to me who am a Roman general, and am Sulla, as if you were not that
Archelaus who fled from Chaeroneia with a few men out of your one
hundred and twenty thousand, and were hid for two days in the
marshes[253] of Orchomenus, and left Boeotia with all the roads made
impassable by the heaps of dead?" Upon this Archelaus changed his
tone, and humbling himself, entreated Sulla to give up the war and to
come to terms with Mithridates. Sulla accepted the proposal, and peace
was made on the following terms:--Mithridates was to give up Asia[254]
and Paphlagonia, and to surrender Bithynia to Nikomedes, and
Cappadocia to Ariobarzanes, to pay down to the Romans two thousand
talents, and to give them seventy ships fitted with brass and
completely equipped; Sulla was to confirm Mithridates in the rest of
his possessions and to recognise him as an ally of the Romans.

XXIII. These terms being settled, Sulla retraced his steps and marched
through Thessaly and Macedonia to the Hellespont in company with
Archelaus, whom he treated with great respect. Archelaus fell
dangerously ill at Larissa, on which Sulla stopped his march and paid
as much attention to him as if he had been one of his own officers and
fellow-generals. This gave rise to some suspicion that the battle of
Chaeroneia was not fairly fought, which was strengthened by the fact
that Sulla restored all the friends of Mithridates whom he had taken
prisoners, except Aristion[255] the tyrant, who was an enemy of
Archelaus, and whom he caused to be poisoned: but the most convincing
proof of all was Sulla's giving the Cappadocian ten thousand plethra
of land in Euboea, and the title of friend and ally of the Romans.
However, Sulla makes his apology about these matters in his Memoirs.
Ambassadors from Mithridates now arrived, and were ready to accede to
all the terms agreed on, except that the king would not consent to
give up Paphlagonia, and as to the ships he dissented altogether; on
which Sulla in a passion exclaimed, "What say ye? Mithridates claims
to keep Paphlagonia, and refuses to abide by the agreement about the
ships; I thought he would have been thankful if I left him his right
hand, which has destroyed so many Romans. However, he will soon speak
anothe