 Complete the following phrase:  The year after Lucullus left office, troubles arose again in Asia. The king of Bithynia, Mithridates rival, had died and left his kingdom to the Romans. The Senate accepted the offer. Mithridates judged that this was the right moment for the uprising and counterattack he had been planning secretly for years. After war broke out anew the Senate sent Lucullus, a new proconsul, to the east 73 BC with a renewed mandate for war, the 