Two letters of Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus to his satrap Leonippus, inscribed on one stele at Nysa ad Maeandrum, 88/7 BCE — the opening of the First Mithridatic War. In the first (RC 73) the king denounces Chaeremon son of Pythodorus, a Nysaean who has long consorted with Rome and who, on Mithridates' approach, has hidden his sons Pythodorus and Pythion and fled; the king orders a proclamation offering forty talents for any of the three taken alive, twenty for a head. In the second (RC 74) Chaeremon — who had helped fugitive Romans escape to Rhodes — has taken refuge in the asylum of the Ephesian Artemision and still corresponds with 'the Romans, the common enemy of mankind'; Leonippus is to bring him in or hold him 'until I am free of the enemy.' The Nysaeans later set the whole Chaeremon dossier on a single honorific stele, which is how the letters survive. The corpus's first Pontic document — a new dynasty, and a vivid glimpse of royal terror against a provincial Roman partisan.本都国王米特拉达梯六世欧帕托尔致其总督列奥尼普斯之二函，合刻一碑，立于米安德河畔尼萨，公元前88／87年 —— 第一次米特拉达梯战争之始。第一函（RC 73）国王痛斥皮托多罗斯之子凯瑞蒙：此尼萨人久与罗马勾连，闻米特拉达梯将至，乃匿其二子皮托多罗斯与皮提翁而自遁；国王令公告悬赏，三人任一活捉者得四十塔兰同，献首级者二十。第二函（RC 74）凯瑞蒙 —— 曾助逃亡罗马人遁往罗得岛 —— 已遁入以弗所阿尔忒弥斯神庙之庇护，仍与「罗马人，普世公敌」通信；列奥尼普斯当擒之归，或拘禁之「直至我脱离敌手」。尼萨人后将整套凯瑞蒙文书刻于一荣誉碑，文本因以传世。乃本集首篇本都文书 —— 新王朝，并生动一窥王室对一地方亲罗马者之恐怖手段。