Footnotes
[101]
See Strabo, lib. x.
[102]
He confirmed the liberty of the city of Amisus, an Athenian
colony which had enjoyed a popular government, even under the kings of
Persia. Lucullus having taken Sinone and Amisus, restored them to their
liberty, and recalled the inhabitants, who had fled on board their
ships.
[103]
See what Appian writes concerning the Phanagoreans, the
Amisians, and the Synopians, in his treatise Of the War against
Mithridates.
[104]
See Appian, in regard to the immense treasures which
Mithridates employed in his wars, those which he had buried, those which
he frequently lost by the treachery of his own people, and those which
were found after his death.
[105]
See Appian Of the War against Mithridates.
[107]
He lost at one time 170,000 men, yet he soon recruited his
armies.
[108]
In the "Considerations on the Causes of the Rise and Declension
of the Roman Grandeur."
