pace rupta:
When Rome accepted sovereignty over Bithynia, Mithridates quickly advanced
into Bithynia so that he could maintain his power in the East. Bithynia was an entrance
to the Black Sea and thus influential for trade. This marks the beginning of the Third
so-called Mithridaic Wars. After the second war, Mithridates had actively worked to establish connections
throughout the East and to build up his army, which was said to have numbered some
100,000-150,000 men and 400 ships.
habuere:
This is the contracted form of habuerunt. SyncForm
Cotta:
M. Aurelius Cotta was one of the consuls in 74BC. His fellow consul, Lucius Licinius Lucllus
had been sent to monitor Cilicia and Asia,
located here.
apud Calchedonem:Chalcedon was an ancient maritime
city located here opposite
Byzantium, i.e., Constantinople.
obsessus:
There is an understood est which carries over
from coactus est.
When Eutropius uses two verbs in the perfect passive, he often omits the
form of sum with one of them.
