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History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

CHAPTER XXV
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The same year he defeated Archelaus at CHAERONEA in Boeotia, and the next year at ORCHOMENOS.
Meanwhile Sulla's lieutenant, LUCULLUS, raised a fleet and gained two victories off the coast of Asia Minor.

The Asiatic king was now ready to negotiate.

Sulla crossed the Hellespont in 84, and in a personal interview with the king arranged the terms of peace, which were as follows.

The king was to give up Bithynia, Paphlagonia, and Cappadocia, and withdraw to his former dominions.

He was also to pay an indemnity amounting to about $3,500,000, and surrender eighty ships of war.
Having thus settled matters with the king, Sulla punished the Lydians and Carians, in whose territory the Romans had been massacred, by compelling them to pay at one time five years' tribute.


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