Eupatorium

EUPATO´RIUM [TAURICA CHERSONESUS]

or Eupatoria (Εὐπατόριον or Εὐπατορία). (1) A town of Pontus, at the confluence of the Lycus and Iris. It was begun by Mithridates under the name Eupatoria, and received from Pompey, who finished it, the title of Magnopolis.

(2) A town in the northwestern part of the Tauric Chersonesus, on the Sinus Carcinites. It was founded by one of the generals of Mithridates.