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Pontus

Kingdom of northeastern Asia Minor on the Black Sea from about 300–65 BC when its greatest ruler, Mithridates VI Eupator, was defeated by the Roman general Pompey.



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Sometimes they will try to raise commotions, sometimes they will rob the public, and then quarrel with each other, or else fight with those who endeavour to detect them; which was the case at Apollonia in Pontus.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Quocunque adspicio, nihil est nisi pontus et aether;
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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