From: george knysh
Message: 68287
Date: 2011-12-25
--- On Sun, 12/25/11, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67060
89 BCE Mithridates allies himself with 'Cimbri, the Gallograecians, the Sarmatians, and the Bastarnians'
88 BCE 'the Sarmatian and Bastarnian wars restrained Mithridates'
Did the Sarmatians and Bastarnians turn coat?
Is a mixture of these two peoples = the Romanized Bastarnae entering Cimbrian Przeworsk?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/68231
http://vln.by/node/178
Or did the army Mithridates sent take over local Sarmatians and Bastarnians, later to be isolated by development in the south?
Torsten
****GK: I would assume that the conflict with Sarmatians and Bastarnians took place at the beginning of the Marsian war, when things were going particularly badly for the Romans (i.e. in 91, 90, and part of 89 BCE.) Plutarch's text gives no dates. By 88 Rome was victorious and Mithradates' "kindnesses" had won over Sarmatians and Bastarnians.*****