The battle Hostile_encounter ended Process_end with a complete Process_end rout Destroying of the Pontic army and a decisive victory for the Romans .

The Pontic numbers present at the battle Hostile_encounter are varied Change in estimates Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale ranging Aiming from a `` modest '' 76,500 up to a possible total of 120,000 .

The total number of casualties Catastrophe and losses Earnings_and_losses are also disputed Quarreling , Sulla cites Judgment_communication himself that 110,000 Pontic soldiers were killed Killing while only 14 of his own men had gone missing with two of those even returning Arriving the next day .

Murena launched Motion two raids into Pontic territory .

Gordius waited Temporary_stay until King Mithradates VI arrived Arriving himself with the main Pontic army .

The combined Cause_to_amalgamate Pontic army attacked Attack the Roman forces on the opposite side of the river .