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And soon the vision of Antigonus was accomplished for him by fate. For Mithridates made himself master of a large and fair territory, and founded the line of Pontic kings, which, in the eighth generation, was brought to an end by the Romans.1 This, then, is an illustration of the strong natural bent of Demetrius towards kindness and justice.
1 In 63 B.C., when Pompey conquered Mithridates VI. and dismembered his kingdom.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
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