[1] In 47 BC, Lycomedes was probably about 50 years old when he was named by Roman dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, the priest of the goddess Bellona in the temple-state of Comana,[2][3] and sovereign, therefore, of the surrounding country.
[5] Strabo reports that with Roman client King Polemon I of Pontus, Lycomedes besieged a fortress held by Arsaces, a rebel chief who was guarding the sons of King Pharnaces II of Pontus, until Arsaces surrendered.
[7] Due to Lycomedes’ partisanship with Mark Antony, he was deposed by Octavian after the Battle of Actium.
[8] He was succeeded as priest and ruler, briefly, by the brigand-king Cleon of Gordiucome, and more permanently by Dyteutus.
[9] Lycomedes had married a Pontian princess called Orsabaris,[10] the youngest daughter of King Mithridates VI of Pontus,[11] who bore Lycomedes a daughter named Orodaltis.