[348] Strabo, XII. iii. § 19.
[349] There passed in the procession a statue of gold of the King of Pontus, six feet high, with his shield set with precious stones, twenty stands covered with vases of silver, thirty-two others full of vases of gold, with arms of the same metal, and with gold coinage; these stands were carried by men followed by eight mules loaded with golden beds, and after whom came fifty-six others carrying ingots of silver, and a hundred and seven carrying all the silver money, amounting to 2,700,000 drachmas (2,619,000 francs [£104,760]). (Plutarch, Lucullus, xxxvii.)
[350] Plutarch, Lucullus, xxiii.
[351] Strabo, XII. iii. § 13, 14.
[352] Appian, War against Mithridates, lxxviii.
[353] Plutarch, Lucullus, xiv.
[354] See what is reported by Plutarch (Lucullus, xxix.) of the riches and objects of art of every species with which Tigranocerta was crammed.
[355] Appian, Wars of Mithridates, xiii. p. 658; xv. p. 662; xvii. p. 664.
[356] Appian, Wars of Mithridates, xvii. 664. Lesser Armenia furnished 1,000 horsemen. Mithridates had a hundred and thirty chariots armed with scythes.
[357] Strabo, XII. iv. § 2.—Stephanus Byzantinus, under the word Νικομἡδειον.—Pliny, Natural History, V. xxxii. 149.