English Dictionary

Asiatic Vespers

固有名詞

歴史的

(historical) An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.

日本語の意味

（歴史的事件）紀元前88年、ミトリダテス6世の命令により、アナトリアの各都市で計画的にローマ市民が虐殺された事件。この虐殺事件は、ローマが第一ミトリダテス戦争を開始する口実となった。

The historian described how the Asiatic Vespers sparked a brutal chain of events that led Rome to declare the First Mithridatic War.

その歴史家は、紀元前88年にアナトリアで行われたローマ市民の組織的虐殺が残忍な連鎖を引き起こし、ローマが第一次ミトリダテス戦争を宣言するに至ったと述べた。

意味（1）

(historical) An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.

Long before that year the Romans had had dealings with Mithridates²⁷ but they firmly held to the view that the first of their wars with the king was actually that inaugurated with the Asiatic Vespers and it was to that that they gave the title of First Mithridatic War.