Quotes About Mithridates

Mithridates, he died old.

cuanto que los orientales no se limitan como Mitrídates, a hacer de los venenos una coraza. Hacen también de él un puñal. En sus manos la ciencia no es sólo una arma defensiva, sino a veces ofensiva. La una les sirve contra sus sufrimientos, la otra contra sus enemigos.

So, suspecting that Nero had a contract on her, she got herself Mithridatized against the poisons that would have been available to her son's underlings. Like Mithridates, Agrippina eventually died by more mechanical methods as her son (supposedly) had assassins slay her, thus providing us with the small but meaningful lesson that one cannot be robust against everything. And, two thousand years later, nobody has found a method for us to get "fortified" against swords.