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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 See also:

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

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

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