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Battle of the Lycus

The Battle of the Lycus was fought in 66 BC between a Roman Republican army under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius (better known to posterity as Pompey the Great) and the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus. The Romans easily won the battle with few losses. Mithridates fled to Crimea and committed suicide in 63 BC, finally ending the Third Mithridatic War.[1][2][3][4]

Battle of the Lycus
Part of Third Mithridatic War
Date66 BC
Location
Lycus River, Ionia
(modern-day Kelkit River, Turkey)
Result

Roman victory

Belligerents
Roman Republic Pontic Empire
Commanders and leaders
Pompey the Great Mithridates VI
Strength
c. 50,000[5] c. 30,000 infantry[6] and 2,000-3,000 cavalry[7]
Casualties and losses
unknown more than 10,000[8]
  1. ^ Lee L., Brice (2014). Warfare in the Roman Republic: From the Etruscan Wars to the Battle of Actium. California: ABC-CLIO. p. 292. ISBN 978-1-61069-298-4.
  2. ^ Appian, Mithridatica, 100; Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 32; Cassius Dio, 36.48; Livy, Epitome, 101
  3. ^ John Leach, Pompey the Great, 4
  4. ^ Philip Matyszak, Mithridates the Great, Rome's Indomitable Enemy, 10
  5. ^ Leach, John (1978). Pompey the Great (Routledge Revivals). New York: Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-41574-733-2.
  6. ^ John Leach (1978). Pompey the Great page 76.
  7. ^ Appian Historia Romana. Book XII (12th), The Mithridatic Wars, section 97
  8. ^ Appian, Historia Romana, Book XII (12th), The Mithridatic Wars, section 100

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