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Mitridates Eupator

Index: Funes el memorioso, Artificios, Ficciones, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 488. Premios: Agradecimiento a la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, BS,Borges en Sur 1931-1980. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1999. 300. El Gran Premio de Honor, PB,Páginas de Jorge Luis Borges. Buenos Aires: Celtia, 1982. 172.
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Mithridates VI , Eupator Dionysus, king of Pontus and enemy of Rome, 120-63

Fishburn and Hughes: "Literally 'given by Mithras, the Sun god': 'Mithridates' was a name bestowed on a number of oriental kings, soldiers and statesmen. Mithridates Eupator was the last of the six kings of Pontus. He overran the Roman province of Asia and was Rome's most powerful enemy until deposed by Pompey. His memory has been turned into a legend of outstanding bravery and outsize strength and appetite. He spent much of his time practising magic and was thought to be invincible. According to Pliny (7.24.1), 'Mithridates the king reigned over twenty-two nations of different languages and in as many tongues gave laws and ministered justice to them, without interpreters'." (131)