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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 620 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MITHRADATES  , less correctly MITHRIDATES, a

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Persian name derived from
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Mithras (q.v.), the
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sun-
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god, and the Indo-
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European
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root da, " to give," i.e . " given by Mithras." The name occurs also in the forms Mitradates (
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Herod. i .
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Ito) and Meherdates (Tac .
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Ann. xii . 1o) . It was
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borne by a large number of
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Oriental
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kings, soldiers and statesmen . The earliest are Mithradates, the
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eunuch who helped
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Artabanus to assassinate
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Xerxes I . (Diod. xi . 69), and the Mithradates who fought first with
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Cyrus the Younger and after his
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death with
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Artaxerxes against the Greeks (Xen . Anab. ii . 5, 35; iii . 3, 1–10; iii .

4, 1–5), and is the ancestor of the kings of

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Pontus . The most important are three kings of
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Parthia of the Arsacid
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dynasty, and six (or four) kings of Pontus . There were also two kings of Commagene, two of the
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Bosporus and one of
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Armenia (A.D . 35–51) .

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