Mithridatic Wars- Historical note

[Arjos]

how did they manage to raise such a good quality hellenistic army with that many men?

Some must have been levied hellenized people, don't imagine the whole army armourclad...
And numbers are inflated, it's obvious...

Also tigranes the great did some strange stuff like execute anyone who told him the Romans were close by

Plutarch was foremost a moralist...