ANCIENT ROME "Monimus presents with intrepidity the neck Bacchide sent by Mithridates to kill her." Mithridates VI; king of Pontus; finally defeated by Republican Lucio Licinio Lucullo; sent his trusted eunuch Bacchides to kill the sisters; wives and daughters; so that they would not fall alive into the hands of the enemy; leaving them the privilege to choose what death die. Monima; one of his favorite wives; after trying to choke the symbol of unhappy tiara wedding gifts; there being successful; trampled and detestandolo for not having made the latter the service; introduced with courage knowing that the eunuch's neck 'he killed. Table illustrated n. 32 from "Roman History" by Charles Rollin (January 30; 1661 - September 14 1741); "engraved in branches of invention from light Sig. Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano and etched by Mr Raffaele Persichini". Rome; 1833