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76 Orodes and Mithradates, who immediately began a lengthy and bitter quarrel over the kingdom.

Numismatic evidence appears to support the claims of earlier historians that the elder brother, Mithradates III, succeeded to the throne upon the murder of his father. Mithradates, whose chief center of power was in Iran, made himself so objectionable that he was expelled by the nobles, who installed Orodes as ruler. Compelled to flee, Mithradates took