and Archelaus too loyal to listen to such suggestions.  However, when Archelaus fell ill afterwards, Sulla was so attentive to him, besides giving him land in Euboea and styling him friend of the Roman people, that it was suspected that Archelaus had been playing into his hands all along.  It was a most unlikely suspicion; for nothing was more natural than that now, when Sulla was making terms with Mithridates and going to meet Fimbria, he should wish to make Archelaus his friend.  For after all he had resolved to forget the Asiatic massacre and not push Mithridates to desperation. [Sidenote:  Terms offered by Sulla to Mithridates.] The terms agreed upon were these:  Mithridates was to surrender Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Asia, and the islands, eighty ships of war, all prisoners and deserters; he was to give pay and provisions to Sulla’s men, and provide a war indemnity of 3,000 talents (732,000_l_.); to restore to their homes the refugees from Macedonia, and those whom, as will be related hereafter, he had carried off from Chios; and to hand over more of his ships of war to such states as Rhodes in alliance with Rome.  Mithridates was then to be recognised as the ally of Rome.  He chafed at the terms, the proposal of which indeed brought out the long-headed intrepidity of Sulla’s character in the strongest light.  Walking, as it were, on the razor-edge of two precipices, he never faltered once.  The Romans could not charge him with not having carried into effect the original purpose of the war—­the restoration of Nicomedes and Ariobarzanes—­nor could Mithridates fail in the end to listen to the voice of Archelaus.  When he at first rejected the terms, Sulla advanced towards Asia, plundering some of the barbarous tribes on the frontiers of Macedonia, and reducing that province to order.  But Mithridates did not hesitate long. [Sidenote:  Tyranny and difficulties of Mithridates.] He, too, was in a difficult position.  The inhabitants of Asia Minor soon found that in yielding to him they had exchanged whips for scorpions.  He suspected that the defeat of Archelaus at Chaeroneia would excite rebellion, and he seized as many of the Galatian chiefs as he could, and slew them with their wives and children.  The consequence was that the surviving chiefs expelled the man whom he had sent as satrap.  He suspected the Chians also, and made them give up their arms and the children of their chief men as hostages.  Then he made a requisition on them for 2,000 talents (488,000_l_.), and because they could not raise the money, or because the tyrant pretended that there was a deficiency, the citizens were shipped off to the east of the Black Sea, and the island was occupied by colonists.  The man who had managed the affair of Chios was sent to play the same game at Ephesus.  But the people were on their guard, slew him, and raised the standard of rebellion.  Tralles, Hypaepa, Metropolis, Sardis, Smyrna, and other towns followed their example.  Mithridates tried to buoy up his