As soon as Mithridates (mĭth’rĭ•dā’tēz) arrived at Paphlagonia, he made a speech to the soldiers. When he saw that he had aroused their hatred of the Romans he invaded Bithynia… – 75 BC
– James Ussher, Annals of the World (London: E.Tyler for J. Crook, 1658,
reprint, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003), 4111 (paragraph #).
All Asia was being most intolerably oppressed by Roman money-lenders and tax collectors and defected to Mithridates. -75 BC
– James Ussher, Annals of the World (London: E.Tyler for J. Crook, 1658,
reprint, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003), 4112 (paragraph #).
A little later he [Mithridates] came to a country that had not been ravaged by war for many years, so that a slave was sold for four drachmas and an ox for one drachma. Goats, sheep, clothes and other things were equally cheap. – 72 BC
– James Ussher, Annals of the World (London: E.Tyler for J. Crook, 1658,
reprint, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003), 4176 (paragraph #).
James Ussher died this date (3/21/1656) Reigate, Surrey, England. He was born 1/4/1581 in Dublin, Ireland.