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Mithridatic   Listen
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Mithridatic  adj.  Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mithridatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... authority of learned men. I remember reading various relations of the kind in the philosopher Varro, a writer of the highest learning and erudition, but there was the following story in particular. Inquiry was being made at Tralles by means of magic into the probable issue of the Mithridatic war, and a boy who was gazing at an image of Mercury reflected in a bowl of water foretold the future in a hundred and sixty lines of verse. He records also that Fabius, having lost five hundred denarii, came to consult Nigidius; the latter by means of incantations inspired certain boys so that ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius



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