Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Orchomenus (First Mithridatic War).

Fought B.C. 85, between the Pontic army, under Archelaus, and the Romans, under Sulla. The Asiatic cavalry attacked and drove back the Roman line, but Sulla himself rallied his troops, and led them in a charge which totally routed the enemy with heavy loss.