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	The Republic
		It was either after the First Secession in 494 BC or a little later, in 471 BC, that the patricians recognized the plebeians rights to hold meetings and to elect their officers, the 'tribunes of the people' (tribuni plebis).
		In all wars of the fifth century BC the balance of victory lay with Rome and her allies.
		They had had little wars in Liguria and also in Istria, and in 221 BC their whole field force was in Illyria across the Adriatic destroying the league of pirates which had been harrying the east coast of Italy.
	www.roman-empire.net /republic/republic.html (20225 words)

	f. War and Politics, to 70 B.C.E. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Cornelius Sulla, a successful optimate general in the Social War and consul in 88, received the command against Mithridates.
		Cornelius Cinna, went to war with his optimate colleague and captured Rome with the support of Marius, who then began slaughtering his optimate enemies.
		The Second Mithridatic War resulted from a Roman invasion of Cappadocia.
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	Chronofile: timeculture_04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Diadochi ('successors') is the name of the first generation of military and political leaders which came after the death of the Macedonian king and conqueror Alexander the Great in 323.
		First, he tore down the defensive walls of Jerusalem and then constructed a single fortified portion within the city called the Akra ("citadel" in Greek).
		In the First Mithradatic War,__ commenced by the Romans in 88 BCE, Mithradates' generals repeatedly defeated the Asiatic levies of the Romans.
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	Roman Empire History
		War with the Greek king Pyrrhus, who sought to defend the Greek colony of Tarentum (southern Italy) against the Romans; noted I Rome (empire) Battle of Asculum fought (279 BC); Pyrrhus finally: withdrew to Greece.
		Civil war began; Sulla marched his troops into Rome after tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus tried to impose reforms by force; Marius, a leader of the popular party, fled and Rufus was executed; Sulla, leader of the optimates (aristocrats) became consul (87 BC) and left Rome to lead armies in First Mithridatic War.
		First Mithridatic War; Mithridates of Pontus attempted to seize the Roman province of Asia during the Social War, Roman consul Sulla defeated him.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/5576/roma-T.html (2623 words)

	Gaius Marius Summary
		He ran for election as one of the 24 special military tribunes of the first four legions who were elected (the rest were appointed by the magistrate who raised the legion).
		In that year there was a dispute as to who should command the war against Aristonicus in Asia, and a tribune had passed a law authorizing an election to select the commander (there was precedent for this procedure from the Second Punic War).
		First Marius had to deal with the Teutoni, who were in the province of Narbonensis marching toward the Alps.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaius_Marius (5128 words)

	Category:Wars - Military History Wiki
		War is a conflict involving the organized use of weapons and physical force by states or other large-scale groups.
		Warring parties usually hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
		A war to liberate an occupied country is called a "war of liberation"; a war between internal factions within a state is a civil war.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Category:Wars (827 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : First Mithridatic War
		The next year, in 85 BC, Archelaus had received sufficient reinforcements to again offer battle to Sulla, but was again defeated at Orchomenus.
		Realizing that he could not face Sulla, Fimbria fell on his sword, which left Sulla to settle Asia, which he did, by imposing a huge indemnity, along with five years of back taxes, which left Asian cities heavily in debt for a long time to come.
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	Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus,
		Civil war was inevitable, but the boys were still young and their mother was able to postpone the conflict.
		The Second Mithridatic War was a brief intermezzo of the Peace of Dardanus, based on a misunderstanding.
		The immediate cause of the Third Mithridatic War was the death of king Nicomedes III Euergetes of Bithynia in 75/74.
	www.livius.org /mi-mn/mithridates/mithridates.htm (2129 words)

	Plutarch's Life of Marius
		The accounts at first exceeded all credit, as to the number and strength of the approaching army; but in the end, report proved much inferior to the truth, as they were three hundred thousand effective fighting men, besides a far greater number of women and children.
		The need they had of him in time of war procured him power and dignity; but in civil affairs, when he despaired of getting the first place, he was forced to betake himself to the favor of the people, never caring to be a good man, so that he were but a great one.
		At first he declined the woman's solicitations, but when he perceived that there was no other way of escaping, and that her offers were more serious than for the gratification of intemperate passion, he accepted her kindness, and she finding means to convey them away, he escaped with his friends and fled to his father.
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	Gnaeus Pompeius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pompey Strabo was elected consul in 89 B.C. He fought first with Marius and then with Sulla in the Civil Wars of 88-87 B.C. At the age of seventeen his son, Gnaeus Pompeius, began to gain a military experience fighting with his father in the Civil Wars.
		When Sulla returned from the First Mithridatic War in 83 B.C. the 23-year-old Pompey raised and brought three legions of his father's veterans for Sulla's use for his march on the capital.
		THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE, 60-54 BC Although Pompey and Crassus distrusted each other, they both felt aggrieved in 61; Crassus' tax farming clients were being rebuffed at the same time Pompey's veterans were being ignored.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/gnaeus_pompeius.htm (4365 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mithridatic Wars
		They are named for Mithridates VI who was King of Pontus at the time.
		First Mithridatic War: 88 BC - 84 BC
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mithridatic_Wars (126 words)

	Lucullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Rome, he was a member of the prominent gens Licinia, the grandson of the consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus, and the son of Caecilia Metella Calva, sister of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus and of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus (who was the father of Caecilia Metella Dalmatica, Sulla's third wife).
		Lucullus first began service as a military tribune, serving in the Social War under Sulla, and as a quaestor in 88 BC he was the only officer to support Sulla's march on Rome.
		He also served under Sulla in the First Mithridatic War, raising a fleet which helped Sulla open up the seas during the siege of Athens and then, after Lucullus had defeated the Mithridatic admiral Neoptolemus in the Battle of Tenedos, it helped Sulla cross the Aegean to Asia.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Lucullus.htm (1052 words)

	Plutarch's Life of Lucullus
		The first thing that Lucullus did before ever he stood for any office, or meddled with the affairs of state, being then but a youth, was, to accuse the accuser of his father, Servilius the augur, having caught him in an offense against the state.
		Sylla for his constancy and mildness, and always employed in affairs of importance, especially in the mint; most of the money for carrying on the Mithridatic war /3/ being coined by him in Peloponnesus, which, by the soldiers' wants, was brought into rapid circulation, and long continued current under the name of Lucullean coin.
		The Mithridatic war being then under debate, Marcus declared that it was not finished, but only respited for a time, and therefore, upon choice of provinces, the lot falling to Lucullus to have Gaul within the Alps, a province where no great action was to be done, he was ill-pleased.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /plutarch/lucullus.htm (12603 words)

	Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
		It is all inherited by the Romans, perhaps symbolicly with the killing of Archimedes at Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212 (during the Second Punic War, 218-201).
		Arianism was condemned by the First Ecumenical Council, at Nicea, called by the Emperor Constantine I in 324, and by the Second Ecumenical Council, at Constantinople, called by the Emperor Theodosius I in 381.
		Traditionally, the first philosopher is Islam is considered to be al-Kindî (c.796-873), who also shares the distinction of being very nearly the only classical Islamic philosopher who was an Arab [10]: Although all wrote in Arabic, the language of religion and scholarship, most were Persians, and one of the greatest, al-Fârâbî (c.873-950), was Turkish.
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	list of wars before 1000 - Anarchopedia
		58 bce - 50 bce Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
		53 bce - 51 bce Parthian War of Marcus Licynius Crassus
		161 - 166 Parthian war of Lucius Verus
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/list_of_wars_before_1000 (502 words)

	Consuls of the Roman Republic
		The first real threat may have been Marius, C. Marius C.f., who reformed and enlarged the army, enrolling landless proletarii, and was then able to help defeat the revolt of Jugurtha (112-105).
		Although he won his first battles against the Romans, the slaughter was so great, he commented that one more such victory and he would be ruined.
		Warfare was carried on by Marius against the revolt of Jugurtha and invasions by the Celtic (not German) tribes of the Teutones and Cimbri.
	www.friesian.com /rome.htm (5925 words)

	Welcome to Frontiers
		Post-Cold War triumphalist prosperity was one such narrative; the War on Terror is another.
		Cicero was therefore able to complement his legal and rhetorical education under such Roman luminaries as Quintus Mucius Scaevola and his son with tutelage from Philo and other eminent Athenians—all without leaving the relative safety of the capital in the mid-80s BC.
		While it is undoubtedly fair to say that Atta’s status as a foreign student is probably not the first attribute people associate with him, most are certainly aware that he received his “vocational” training “legally” in the West.
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	Mithridatic War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His first act was to call for money, reinforcements, and provisions from Tolia and Thessaly.
		His first theatre of operations was on the Greek peninsula which was under the control of Mithridates's general Archelaus.
		After a brief but brutal civil war Marius and Cinna became the masters of Roma.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/mithridatic_war.htm (415 words)

	ROMAN HISTORY TIMELINE
		Tiberius, the first senator to advocate land reform, was assassinated in 133BC by land-owners.
		Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and became the first dictator of Rome
		For the first time, a barbarian, Romulus Augustus, was named Western Emperor by barbarian generals
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his101/TIMELINE/T-ROMAN.HTM (704 words)

	Civil War and Rebellion - Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar
		Roman forces led by Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels in the Social War.
		Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the First Mithridatic War.
		Triumvirs Marc Antony and Octavian (later to be the first emperor Augustus) fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Marcus Brutus and Cassius.
	www.romanrelics.com /repcivbatt.htm (545 words)

	Lex Manilia
		The beaks decorating the Rostra were from the pirate [Italian] stronghold of Antium destroyed in 338, and wars were fought in 229 and 219 against the Adriatic pirates [Illyrians].
		It suits Cicero's purpose to ignore the tradition of personal violence since he is concerned to contrast the mere insults repaid by war in the past with the recent slaughter which his contemporaries hesitate to revenge.
		partim eorum in the first case partim is an adverb; in the second, a noun with a partitive genitive depending upon it.
	www.uvm.edu /~bsaylor/latin/lexmanilia.html (6542 words)

	Third Mithridatic War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The third Roman war against Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, was really a continuation of the second.
		Lucullus, the Roman legate in charge of carrying out the war effort, was semi-successful, but ultimately unable to win a final victory.
		Mithridates had vast wealth from his own campaigns at his disposal, but many years of continuous war had taken its toll.
	www.unrv.com /roman-republic/third-mithridatic-war.php (554 words)

	Rabelais - Pantagruel - Book 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the First Mithridatic War (88-84 B.C.) he conquered (88 B.C.) most of Asia Minor, but in 85 B.C. he was defeated there and in Greece.
		The Second Mithridatic War (83-81 B.C.) ended in a Roman defeat.
		In the Third Mithridatic War (76-63 B.C.) Lucullus defeated Mithridates, and Pompey drove the king into the Crimea, where he had himself killed by a slave.
	www.pantagruelion.com /p/s/10055.html (102 words)

	Chronology of the Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		366 BC - The first plebeian elected to the consulship.
		This was a civil war against Rome by its Italian allies who demanded full Roman citizenship and other privileges.
		Instead, Caesar crossed the Rubicon River (a stream on the border of Italy and Cisalpine Gaul) and invaded Italy, beginning a new civil war.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~bkharvey/roman/sources/repchron.htm (1004 words)

	Amazon.com: "Mithridatic War": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roman magistrate (other than those passing to and from Asia Minor) whose presence in Greece is explicitly documented before the Mithridatic War, nearly six decades later.
		But, given the delicate situation of the whole region following the first Mithridatic War, we do not have to follow Cicero in his suggestion that there was no pressing public interest which could justify...
		The crew of a warship of Kyzikos, which probably fought during the Third Mithridatic War,...
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	Appian's History of Rome: The Mithridatic Wars
		Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165) is the author of a Roman History and one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians.
		Although only his books on the Roman Civil Wars survive in their entirety, large parts of other books have also come down to us.
		There are two systems to divide the Mithridatic Wars: in 121 sections or 17 chapters.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_00.html (172 words)

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		First Mithridatic War against Mithridates VI of Pontus
		First Roman civil war, between Sulla and the popular faction; Sulla wins and becomes dictator; censor office abolished (to be recreated in 70 BC)
		Third Roman civil war, between the assassins of Caesar (led by Cassius and Brutus)
	www.goodreads.ca /romanchronology (1238 words)

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