[1]: Plutarch gives Greek values. The talent was a sum of money nearly equivalent to £240, or $1200, with many times the purchasing power of money to-day.
[2]: Cf. chapter vi. 6.
[3]: Cf. Aristotle, Pol. i. 1253b 32.
[4]: Cf. Cleomenes xxvii. 1; Morals, 190a; 219a. In Demosthenes, xvii. 3, the saying is put in the mouth of Crobylus, as Hegesippus the Athenian orator was familiarly called.
[5]: Perhaps Alexander Cornelius, surnamed Polyhistor, a contemporary of Sulla.
[6]: In 87 B.C. Crassus was then not quite twenty years of age.
[7]: A Roman historian who flourished under Augustus.
[8]: Cf. Plutarch’s Sulla, xxix. 5.
[9]: See Plutarch’s Caesar, chapter ii.
[10]: Cf. foenum habet in cornu. Hor. Sat. i. 4, 34.
[11]: 73-71 B.C.
[12]: 102-99 B.C.
[13]: Marcus Lucullus, brother of Lucius.
[14]: Their number is given as five thousand in Pompey, xxi. 2.
[15]: Chapter xxii.
[16]: 70 B.C.
[17]: 65 B.C.
[18]: 63-62 B.C.
[19]: Not extant.
[20]: Not extant.
[21]: Cf. Plutarch’s Cicero, xv.
[22]: 59 B.C.
[23]: 56 B.C.
[24]: 55 B.C.
[25]: Julia, Caesar’s daughter, who died in 54 B.C.
[26]: 54 B.C.
[27]: Cf. Dio Cassius, xl. 13.
[28]: In subsequent passages called Hyrodes.
[29]: In subsequent passages called Hyrodes.
[30]: Cf. Dio Cassius, xl. 16.
[31]: Caius Cassus Longinus, afterwards one of the assassins of Caesar.
[32]: A town in Syria, on the right bank of the Euphrates, deriving its name from a bridge of boats there made across the river.
[33]: Cf. Dio Cassius, xl. 18.
[34]: Seleucia on the Tigris, built by Seleucus Nicator.
[35]: Sagittarius, the sign of the zodiac following Scorpio.
[36]: Probably a collection of love stories, the scenes of which were laid in Miletus. Of its author, who flourished perhaps in the second century B.C., almost nothing is known.
[37]: In the fable of the two wallets, which everyone carries, one in front containing his neighbour’s faults, which are therefore always before his eyes; and one behind containing his own faults, which he therefore never sees.
[38]: Cf. chapter xxi. 6.
[39]: Pentheus, king of Thebes, the son of Agave, refused to recognize the divinity of Dionysus, whereupon the god infuriated the women, and Agave killed her own son. She appears in the Bacchae with his head in her hand, exulting over the death of the supposed wild beast.
[40]: A poet competing at the Athenian City Dionysia exhibited three tragedies and a satyric drama, the four plays being performed in succession in the course of the same day.
[41]: 38 B.C. Cf. Plutarch’s Antony, xxxiv. 1. According to Dio Cassius, xlix, 21, Pacorus fell on the same day on which Crassus had been slain fifteen years before.