civis Romanos, etc.: this massacre (B.C. 88), in which 80,000 persons perished, was intended by Mithridates as a step toward the entire expulsion of the Romans from Asia. regnat: for tense, see ยง 466(276, a); B. 259, 4; G. 230; H. 533 (467, 2); H-B. 485.
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