[2] At some point, Mithridates VI met Berenice, who was a citizen from the capital of Chios.
There is a possibility that Mithridates VI renamed the capital city of Chios in honor of Berenice.
[2] In about 72 or 71 BC, Plutarch reports that Mithridates VI ordered his family to commit suicide in order to avoid capture by the Roman consul Lucullus, who was pursuing him.
Berenice decided to take her life with poison, but when her mother, who was next to her, requested some, she shared it with her.
The shared amount eventually killed her mother, who was older, but did not take effect on her, and subsequently she was strangled by a man of the palace guard.