The Annals of the World by Ussher James

Author:Ussher, James [Ussher, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Biblical Reference / General
ISBN: 9781614582557
Publisher: Master Books
Published: 2006-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

3980. Dorylaus, with his eighty thousand (Plutarch and Appian) or with seventy thousand (Eutropius and Orosius) choice soldiers, joined his forces to those of Archelaus, who had only ten thousand of his former army left and tried in vain to convince Dorylaus not to attack Sulla. They attacked Sulla near Orchomenus and lost fifteen thousand men (Appian and Orosius) or twenty thousand. (Eutropius) Archelaus’ son, Diogenes, was killed and when, soon after this, they had a second battle, the rest of Mithridates’ forces were destroyed. Twenty thousand were driven into a nearby moor, where they were butchered. They cried for mercy, but the Romans did not understand their language and so they killed them. Many more were forced into a river and drowned. The rest of the miserable wretches were killed on every side. Plutarch stated that the marshes overflowed with the blood of the dead and that a pool was filled up with dead bodies. So much so, that, two hundred years later, in his time, many of the barbarians’ bows, helmets, pieces of steel breast-plates and swords were found buried in the mud. {*Plutarch, Sulla, l. 1. c. 20,21. 4:391-397} {*Appian, Mithridatic Wars, l. 12. c. 7. (49) 2:327,329} {*Livy, l. 82. 14:103} {Eutropius, l. 5.} {Orosius, l. 6. c. 2.}

3981. Archelaus spent two days (Plutarch) or three days (Eutropius), stripped naked, hiding in the marshes of the Orchomenians. At last, he found a little boat and sailed into Chalcis. Wherever he came across any of Mithridates’ forces, he hastily assembled them into a body of troops. {*Plutarch, Sulla, l. 1. c. 22. s. 4. 4:399} {Eutropius, l. 5.} {*Appian, Mithridatic Wars, l. 12. c. 7. (50) 2:329,331} [K156] Sulla pillaged and created what havock he could in Boeotia which was inclined to revolt to one side or the other at every new crisis. From there, he moved on into Thessaly, where he constructed his winter quarters. He was expecting Lucullus to arrive with ships, but when he heard no news of his coming, he built other ships. {*Appian, Mithridatic Wars, l. 12. c. 8. (51) 2:331} Livy stated that Archelaus surrendered himself and the king’s fleet to Sulla. {*Livy, l. 82. 14:103} Aurelius Victor wrote that through Archelaus’ treachery, Sulla was able to intercept the fleet. {Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus, l. 1. c. 76.} It is evident that there were secret communications between Sulla and Archelaus for other reasons, as well. For Sulla had given Archelaus two thousand acres in Euboea, where Chalcis was. Sulla, however, tried to remove all those suspicions in his commentaries. {*Plutarch, Sulla, l. 1. c. 23. s. 2. 4:401} {Dio, Legat., 33. or 34.} Although, in a letter of Mithridates to Arsaces, some expressions implied that those suspicions were so firmly rooted in men’s minds that they were not easily removed. {*Sallust, Letter of Mithridates, l. 1. (12) 1:437}

“Archelaus, the most unworthy of those that were under me, thwarted my plans by his betrayal of my army.”

3982. Strabo stated that Archelaus, who waged war against Sulla, was greatly admired by the Romans, Sulla and the Senate.

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