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Orabaris

Ὀρσάβαρις

(Ὀρσάβαρις), a daughter of Mithridates the Great, who was taken prisoner by Pompey, and served to adorn his triumph, B. C. 61 (Appian, App. Mith. 117). The name Orsobaris occurs also on a coin of the city of Prusias, in Bithynia. which bears the inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΜΟΤΣΗΣ ΟΠΣΟΒΑΠΙΟΣ; and this is conjectured by Visconti (Iconogr.Grecque, tom. ii. p. 195) to refer to the same person as the one mentioned in Appian, whom he supposes to have been married to Socrates, the usurper set up by Mithridates as king of Bithynia.

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.