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Perhaps now it will be asked, how, when all this has been already done, there can be any
great war left behind. I will explain this, O Romans; for this does not seem an unreasonable
question. At first Mithridates fled from his kingdom, as Medea is formerly said to have fled
from the same region of Pontus; for they say that
she, in her flight, strewed about the limbs of her brother in those places along which her
father was likely to pursue her, in order that the collection of them, dispersed as they were,
and the grief which would afflict his father, might delay the rapidity of his pursuit.
Mithridates, flying in the same manner, left in Pontus the whole of the vast quantity of gold and silver, and of beautiful
things which he had inherited from his ancestors, and which he himself had collected and
brought into his own kingdom, having obtained them by plunder in the former war from all
Asia. While our men were diligently occupied in
collecting all this, the king himself escaped out of their hands.
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