Tamhercule quam Mithridatem regem, qui una epistula octoginta milia civium Romanorumin Asia per urbes negotiandi gratia dispersa interemit, tantaeque provinciae hospitales deos iniusto sed non inulto cruore respersit, quoniam cum maximo cruciatu veneno repugnantem spiritum suum tandem succumbere coegit simulque piacula crucibus illis dedit, quibus [illos] amicos suos auctore Gauro spadone, libidinosus obsequio, scelestus imperio adfecerat.
So too to be sure with king Mithridates. With one letter he killed eighty thousand Roman citizens, businessmen dispersed among the cities of Asia, and bespattered that great provinces gods of hospitality with blood unlawful but not unavenged. For in great pain he finally forced his reluctant breath to yield to poison and at the same time expiated those crosses with which he had afflicted friends of his at the instance of the eunuch Gaurus: lustful in compliance, criminal in command.
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