英语词汇mithridatize的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mithridatize. Mithridates VI trusted no one. Coming to the throne when only 11, this king of Pontus, an area in Asia Minor along the Black Sea, eventually murdered his mother, his sons, and the sister he had married in order to retain power, and once killed all his concubines to prevent his harem from falling into enemy hands. All his days he had guarded himself against poisoning by accustoming his body to small amounts of poi- son, rendering himself immune by gradually increasing these daily doses. Then, weary of his son’s treachery, he decided to commit suicide and found that he had mithridatized himself far too well. No poison in any amount worked, for he had total immunity. Instead, he had to have a mercenary or slave stab him to death. Such is the story, anyway, that the credulous Pliny the Elder tells us about Mithridates, King of Pontus (120– 63 b.c.), betrayed by the very poisons he himself had so often used to kill. A mithridate is the antidote to all poisons that Pliny claims Mithridates had developed. It contained 72 ingre- dients, none of them given by the historian. See take with a grain of salt.

词汇	mithridatize
词源	mithridatize. Mithridates VI trusted no one. Coming to the throne when only 11, this king of Pontus, an area in Asia Minor along the Black Sea, eventually murdered his mother, his sons, and the sister he had married in order to retain power, and once killed all his concubines to prevent his harem from falling into enemy hands. All his days he had guarded himself against poisoning by accustoming his body to small amounts of poi- son, rendering himself immune by gradually increasing these daily doses. Then, weary of his son’s treachery, he decided to commit suicide and found that he had mithridatized himself far too well. No poison in any amount worked, for he had total immunity. Instead, he had to have a mercenary or slave stab him to death. Such is the story, anyway, that the credulous Pliny the Elder tells us about Mithridates, King of Pontus (120– 63 b.c.), betrayed by the very poisons he himself had so often used to kill. A mithridate is the antidote to all poisons that Pliny claims Mithridates had developed. It contained 72 ingre- dients, none of them given by the historian. See take with a grain of salt.
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