his sufferings, risks, and return to Rome with Cinna, 185;
his conquests, and the massacres in Rome, 185;
in conjunction with Cinna elects himself Consul for the seventh
time, 185;
his death, 185.

Marius, the younger, defeated by Sulla, 192;
orders his opponents to be put to death, 192;
embarks for Africa, 192;
puts an end to his own life, 193.

Marrucini, 3.

Marsi, 3.

Marsic or Social War, 178-80.

Martialis, M. Valerius, 346.

Masinissa, enters into treaty with Scipio, 101;
assists Scipio, 103;
aids Scipio to defeat Hasdrubal and Syphax, 103;
marries, and soon afterward kills Sophonisba, 103-4.

Massilia, 287.

Maximin, Emperor, 323.

Maximus, Valerius, 346.

Mediterranean Sea infested with pirates, 209.

Memmius, C., murdered, 174.

Menapii defeated by Caesar, 231.

Menenius Agrippa, fable told by, 31.

Mesopotamia added to the Roman empire, 329.

Messala, M. Valerius, 286.

Messana, 69.

Metellus Celer, 221.

Metellus, L., defeats the Carthaginians at Panormus, 73.

Metellus (Macedonicus), Q., 145.

Metellus (Numidicus), Q. Caecilius, Consul, conducts the war in Africa
against Jugurtha, 166;
superseded by Marius, 166.

Metellus, Q., Consul, 224.

Military Tribunes appointed, 41.

Mimes, 275.

Mithridates V., king of Pontus, assassinated, 186.

Mithridates VI., king of Pontus, early life, 186;
conquests and alliances, 187-8;
orders a massacre of Romans and Italians in the cities of Asia, 188;
defeated by L. Valerius Flaccus and by Sulla, 188-9;
obtains peace on hard conditions, 189;
defeats Murena on the Halys, 205;
makes peace with Rome, and evacuates Cappadocia, 205;
renews the war with Rome, 206;
overruns Bithynia, and defeats Cotta, 200;
retreats before Lucullus into Pontus, 207;
defeated by Lucullus at Cabira, and takes refuge in Armenia, 207;
defeats Fabius and Triarius, 208;
unites with Tigranes, when they overrun Pontus and Cappadocia, 209;
is defeated by Pompey, 211;
escapes into the Cimmerian Bosporos, 211;
conspiracy of his son Pharnaces, 213;
his death, 213.

Mithridatic Wars: First, 183-9;
Second, 205;
Third, 205-13.

Moorish Dartmen, 124.

Morini defeated by Caesar, 231.

Mucius Scaevola, C., 27.

Mulvian bridge, battle of the, 199.

Murena, L., invades Cappadocia and Pontus, 205;
is opposed by Mithridates, and defeated, 205.

N.

Naevius, Cn., 273.

Naples, Bay of, 4.