who performed nothing which the many writers who flourished in his time have thought worth transmitting to posterity. As he died without issue male, he left his kingdom by his last will to the Romans, who reduced it to the form of a province. Sallust, disagreeing with the ancients, tells us, that Nicomedes left a son named Mufa or Myfa; and introduces Mithridates as complaining of the Romans to Artaces king of Parthia, for seizing on the kingdom of Bithynia, and excluding the son of a prince who had on all occasions shown himself a steady friend to their republic. But this Mufa was the daughter and not the son of Nicomedes, as we are told in express terms by Suetonius, Velleius Paternus, and Appian. All we know of her is, that upon the death of her father she claimed the kingdom of Bithynia for her son, as the next male heir to the crown; but without success, no motives of justice being of such weight with the ambitious Romans as to make them part with a kingdom.