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Nysa

2. Wife of Nicomedes III. Mithridates prework tended that she was the mother of the impostor, whom he set up as a claimant to the. throne of Bithynia, B. C. 74. (Mithr. Ep. ad Arsac. ap. Sall. Hist. iv. p. 239, ed. Gerlach.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.