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Gaius Flavius Fimbria (d. 84 BC) was a Roman politician and a violent partisan of Gaius Marius. He fought in the First Mithridatic War.

His father Gaius Flavius Fimbria had been consul in 104 BC along with Marius; the son was sent to Asia in 86 BC as legate to Lucius Valerius Flaccus, but quarrelled with him and was dismissed. Taking advantage of the absence of Flaccus at Chalcedon and the discontent aroused by his avarice and severity, Fimbria stirred up a revolt and slew Flaccus at Nicomedia. He then assumed the command of the army and obtained several successes against Mithridates VI, whom he shut up in Pitane on the coast of Aeolis, and would undoubtedly have captured him had Lucullus co-operated with the fleet.

Fimbria treated most cruelly all the people of Asia who had revolted from Rome or sided with Sulla. Having gained admission to Ilium by declaring that, as a Roman, he was friendly, he massacred the inhabitants and burnt the place to the ground. But in 84 Sulla crossed over from Greece to Asia, made peace with Mithridates, and turned his arms against Fimbria, who, seeing that there was no chance of escape, committed suicide. His troops were made to serve in Asia till the end of the Third Mithridatic War.

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Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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Gaius Marius (Latin: C·MARIVS·C·F·C·N )[1] (157 BC–January 13, 86 BC) was a Roman general and politician elected consul an unprecedented seven times during his career.
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First Mithridatic War was the first of three military conflicts fought in Greece and Asia Minor between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic.

Conflict between Mithridates and Nicomedes


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Gaius Flavius Fimbria, according to Cicero, rose to the highest honours in the republic through his own merit and talent.

In 105 BCE, he was a candidate for the consulship, and the people gave him the preference to his competitor, Quintus Lutatius Catulus; and accordingly,
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Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably Republican France before the Napoleonic
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Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with almost 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population.
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legatus (often anglicized as legate) was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of senatorial rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes.
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L. Valerius Flaccus (or Lucius Valerius P.f. Flaccus, who died 180 BC), was consul in 195 BC and censor 183 BC, both times with his great friend Cato the Elder, whom he brought to the notice of the Roman political elite.
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Chalcedon (Χαλκηδών, sometimes transliterated as Chalkedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Ãœsküdar).
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Nicomedia (Greek: Νικομήδεια, modern İzmit) was founded by Nicomedes I of Bithynia at the head of the Gulf of Astacus which opens to the Propontis. In earlier antiquity, the city was called Astacus or Olbia (founded 712 BC).
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Mithridates VI (Greek: Μιθριδάτης), 132–63 BC, also known as Mithridates the Great (Megas) and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC.
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Pitane was an ancient Greek town of Aeolis, in Asia Minor. It is now the site of the Turkish town of Çandarlı. Autolycus of Pitane was born here during the fourth century BC.
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Aeolis (Ancient Greek Αιολίς Aiolís) or Aeolia (IPA: /iːˈoʊlɪə/) (Ancient Greek Αιολία Aiolía
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Lucius Licinius Lucullus (ca. 118-56 BC) was a consul of ancient Rome, a supporter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and victor in the East.

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Born in Rome, he was a member of the prominent gens
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Latin: L•CORNELIVS•L•F•P•N•SVLLA•FELIX )[1] (ca. 138 BC–78 BC), usually known simply as Sulla, was a Roman general, consul and dictator.
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Ilion or Ilium may refer to:
  • Ilion or Ilium, alternative names for the legendary city of Troy
  • Ilio, Greece, a suburb of Athens, Greece, also known as Nea Liossia
  • Ilion, New York, a village in Herkimer County, New York

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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Third Mithridatic War (75-65 BC) was one of three Mithridatic Wars fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. The Romans won the war, and Mithridates committed suicide, ending the menace of Pontus and conquering the Armenian kingdom.
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