11-11-2011, 05:26 PM
Aha! Thanks, guys. That answers my questions. (It also, rather sadly, disproves one of Gibbon's statements.)
Although I still think it strange that he would be termed king of the Pontic people. Prior to Hannibalanius, who was the last person to claim such a title? I assume one of the client kings after Mithridates at the end of the Republic or start of the Principate. It's odd that this honorific was resurrected some centuries later.
Although I still think it strange that he would be termed king of the Pontic people. Prior to Hannibalanius, who was the last person to claim such a title? I assume one of the client kings after Mithridates at the end of the Republic or start of the Principate. It's odd that this honorific was resurrected some centuries later.
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