g busied at home with domestic troubles to
advance his interests in Asia, where he was well received by the
people, who were disgusted with the conduct of the Roman governors. He
had defeated the Roman generals L. Cassius, Manius Aquilius, and Q.
Oppius. (Appian, _Mithridatic War_, c. 17, &c.) He also ordered all
the Romans and Italians who were in Asia, with their wives and
children, to be murdered on one day; which was done.]

[Footnote 203: The kingdom of Bosporus was a long narrow slip on the
south-east coast of the peninsula now called the Crimea or Taurida.
The name Bosporus was properly applied to the long narrow channel, now
called the Straits of Kaffa or Yenikale, which unites the Black Sea
and the Maeotis or Sea of Azoff. Bosporus was also a name of
Pantikapaeum, one of the chief towns of the Bosporus. There was a
series of Greek kings of the Bosporus, extending from B.C. 430 to B.C.
304, whose names are known; and there may have been others. In the
time of Demosthenes, in the fourth century before the Christian aera,
the Athenians imported annually a large quantity of corn from the
Bosporus. This was the country that now belonged to Mithridates.
(_Penny Cyclopaedia_, article "Bosporus.")]

[Footnote 204: Kaltwasser conjectures that the son who is first
mentioned was Mithridates, and he remarks that Appian (_Mithridatic
War_, c. 64) calls him also Mithridates. But in place of the name
Ariarathes, he reads Aciarathes, whom he makes to be the same as the
Arcathias of Appian (c. 35). Ariarathes however was a son of
Mithridates (_Mithridatic War_, 15); and according to Appian, it was a
son Mithridates who held Pontus and the Bosporus. Ariarathes and
Arcathias assisted their father in the war in Asia.]

[Footnote 205: This Archelaus was a native of Cappadocia, and probably
of Greek stock. His name often occurs afterwards. (See "Archelaus,"
_Biograph. Dict._ of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge.)]

[Footnote 206: The promontory of Malea, now Cape St. Angelo, is the
most south-eastern point of the Peloponnesus. The expression of
Plutarch is, "all the islands situated within Malea," by which he
means all the islands of the Archipelago which are east of Malea,
including the Cyclades, or the group which lies in somewhat of a
circular form round the small rocky island of Delos.]

[Footnote 207: His name is Brettius in the MSS. of Plutarch. His Roman
name is Bruttius, as Appian (_Mithridat. War_, i.