• When he had made himfelf matter of Afia
Minor, Mtfiridatcs fent Archelaus, one of his gene*
mris, with an army df an hundred and twenty thou*
fend men into ^Greece. That genetal took Athens 4 ,
and chafe it for his refidence* given all orders from
thenoe in regard to the war on that fide* During
his sftay ifherfc, he engaged moft of the cities and
Hates off -Greece in the interdls df his mafter. He
feduced Deios by force., which had revolted from
the Athenians, and reinftated them in the poffeflioa
tf it. He fent them the facred treafure, kept in that
tfland by Ariftion, to whom he gave two fhoufanA
men as a guard for the money. Aritlion was an
Athenian philofopher, of the left of Epicurus. He
employed the two thoufand men under his command
ta fetie ail authority at Athens, where he exercifed a

moffc

k Appian. p. i86.Jofeph. Antiq, 1. xiv. c. ia. lAppian. p. 186—
16%. Diod. in Excerpt, p. 402. »Plut. IB Sy 11a, p. 458 — 461.
A^juan. in Mithrid. g. UIt-^-j* l "



8o THE HISTORY

moft cruel tyranny, putting many of th^ citizens ta
death, and fending many to Mithridates, upon pretence
that they were of the Roman faflion.
n Such was the ftate of affairs when Sylla was
charged with the war againft Mithridates. He fet
out immediately for Greece with five legions, and
fome cohorts and cavalry. Mithridates was at that
time at Pergamus, where he diftributcd riches, govern-
ments, and other rewards to his friends.
