The Battle of the Rhyndacus occurred in 73 or 72 B.C. between the Roman Republican forces under Lucullus and the army of the Kingdom of Pontus as part of the Third Mithridatic War. Lucullus, based in Cilicia, had foregone his planned invasion of Pontus from the south to come west and relieve his co-consul Marcus Aurelius Cotta, whom Mithridates had besieged at Cyzicus on the Sea of Marmara. Lucullus's five legions began an effective counter-siege.
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