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Laodice of Cappadocia
Laodice (in Greek Λαοδικη) was a sister of the king of Pontus Mithridates Eupator (120–63 BC) and the wife of Ariarathes VI (130–116 BC), king of Cappadocia. After the death of her husband, who was assassinated by Gordius, at the instigation of Mithridates, in order to avoid a similar fate for herself and her two sons, she threw herself into the arms of Nicomedes II, king of Bithynia, whom she married, and put in possession of Cappadocia.
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