Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te hotoke o te tau 48/47 BC, i noho a Julius Caesar i raro i te whakapae i Alexandria
i nga ope a Akira, kaitiaki me te rangatira mo te Kingi Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator. I whakaarahia e Mithridates he ope, a ka haere mai ki te whakaora i a Hihara. I muri i te Pakanga o Zela, ka meinga ia e Hihara hei kingi o te Kingi o Bosporan. Ko Dynamis te tuahine o Mithridates me tana tahu ko Asander nga rangatira rangatira i taua wa, a i hinga e te ope a Mithridates.