o kill no one-eyed man; for Lucullus
designed to make Marius die a shameful and dishonourable death.

XIII. As soon as he had accomplished this, Lucullus hastened in
pursuit of Mithridates; for he expected still to find him about
Bithynia, and watched by Voconius, whom he had sent with ships to
Nikomedia[360] to follow up the pursuit. But Voconius lingered in
Samothrakia,[361] where he was getting initiated into mysteries and
celebrating festivals. Mithridates, who had set sail with his
armament, and was in a hurry to reach Pontus before Lucullus returned,
was overtaken by a violent storm, by which some of his ships were
shattered and others were sunk; and all the coast for many days was
filled with the wrecks that were cast up by the waves. The
merchant-vessel in which Mithridates was embarked could not easily be
brought to land by those who had the management of it, by reason of
its magnitude, in the agitated state of the water, and the great
swell, and it was already too heavy to hold out against the sea, and
was water-logged; accordingly the king got out of the vessel into a
piratical ship, and, intrusting his person to pirates, contrary to
expectation and after great hazard he arrived at Heraklea[362] in
Pontus. Now it happened that the proud boast of Lucullus to the Senate
brought on him no divine retribution.[363] The Senate was voting a sum
of three thousand talents to equip a navy for the war, but Lucullus
stopped the measure by sending a letter, couched in vaunting terms, in
which he said, that without cost and so much preparation, he would
with the ships of the allies drive Mithridates from the sea. And he
did this with the aid of the deity; for it is said that it was owing
to the anger of Artemis Priapine[364] that the storm fell on the
Pontic soldiers, who had plundered her temple and carried off the
wooden statue.

XIV. Though many advised Lucullus to suspend the war, he paid no heed
to them: but, passing through Bithynia and Galatia, he invaded the
country of the king. At first he wanted provisions, so that thirty
thousand Galatians followed him, each carrying on his shoulders a
medimnus of wheat; but as he advanced and reduced all into his power,
he got into such abundance of everything that an ox was sold in the
camp for a drachma, and a slave for four drachmae; and, as to the rest
of the booty, it was valued so little that some left it behind, and
others destroyed it; for there were no means of dispo