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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 241 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | For some time Pharnaces appears to have remained contented with the limits thus assigned him ; and we know no events of his reign during this period, except that he entered into extensive relations, both hostile and friendly, with the surrounding Scythian tribes. |
 | | 495, 506.) Bat the increasing dissensions among the Romans themselves emboldened him to turn his arms against the free city of Phanagoria, which had been expressly excepted from the grant of Pompey, but which he now reduced under his subjection. |
 | | Not long afterwards, the civil war having actually broken out between Caesar and Pompey., he determinsd to seize the opportunity to reinstate himself in his father's dominions, and made himself master, almost without opposition, of the whole of Colchis and the lesser Armenia. |
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