Prusias Destroys the Nicephorium
After defeating Attalus, and advancing to Pergamum,Prusias, king of Bithynia, attacks Attalus of Pergamum. |
5, 11. |
Elaea on the Casius, the port of Pergamum. |
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Prusias, king of Bithynia, attacks Attalus of Pergamum. |
5, 11. |
Elaea on the Casius, the port of Pergamum. |
1 Temnus was in Mysia, s. of the river Hermus. Cynneius or Cyneius Apollo seems to mean Apollo guardian of the shepherd dogs. There was, according to Suidas (s. v. κυνήειος), a temple to Apollo at Athens with that title, said to have been the work of Cynnis, a son of Apollo and a nymph Parnethia.
2 The battle, in which Prusias is here said to have conquered Attalus, was a treacherous attack upon Attalus who was waiting, in accordance with an arrangement made by Roman envoys Hortensius and Arunculeius, to meet Prusias on his frontier, accompanied by only one thousand cavalry. The Roman envoys even had to fly for their lives. Appian, Mithridates, 3.
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