Battle of the Lycus

Battle of the Lycus
	Part of Third Mithridatic War
Date	66 BC
Location	Lycus River, Ionia; (modern-day Kelkit River, Turkey)
Result	Roman victory End of the Mithridatic Wars;
Belligerents
Roman Republic	Pontic Empire
Commanders and leaders
Pompey the Great	Mithridates VI
Strength
c. 50,000	c. 30,000 infantry and 2,000-3,000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
unknown	more than 10,000

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.

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