[citation needed] Mithridates V continued the alliance with Rome started by his predecessors.

[citation needed] For his services on this occasion, Mithridates V was rewarded by the Roman consul Manius Aquillius with the province of Phrygia.

[4] Mithridates V also increased the power of Pontus by the marriage of his eldest child, his daughter Laodice to King Ariarathes VI.

[6] Mithridates V was a great benefactor to the Hellenic culture which shows on surviving coinage and honorific inscriptions stating his donations in Athens and Delos and held the Greek God Apollo in great veneration.

Roxana and Statira were compelled to kill themselves with poison after the fall of Pontus in 63 BC.