[Footnote 195:  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 57) says that all Sulla’s officers left him, when he was going to march to Rome, except one quaestor.  They would not serve against their country.]

[Footnote 196:  That is Moon, Athena (Minerva), and Enyo (Bellona).  It is difficult to conjecture what Cappadocian goddess Plutarch means, if it be not the Great Mother. (Marius, c. 17.)]

[Footnote 197:  The place is unknown.  There are some discrepancies between the narrative of these transactions in Plutarch and Appian.  Appian’s is probably the better (i. 58, &c.).  The reading Pictae has been suggested. (Strabo, p. 237.)]

[Footnote 198:  The Roman word is Tellus. (Livius, 2, c. 41.) The temple was built on the ground occupied by the house of Spurius Cassius, which was pulled down after his condemnation. (Livius, 2, c. 41.)]

[Footnote 199:  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 60) mentions the names of twelve persons who were proscribed.  The attempt to rouse the slaves to rebellion was one of the grounds of this condemnation, and a valid ground.]

[Footnote 200:  L. Cornelius Cinna and Cn.  Octavius were consuls B.C. 87. the year in which Sulla left Italy to fight with Mithridates.  Apuleius (On the God of Sokrates) thus alludes to the kind of oath which Cinna took—­“Shall I swear by Jupiter, holding a stone in my hand, after the most ancient manner of the Romans?  But if the opinion of Plato is true, that God never mingles himself with man, a stone will hear me more easily than Jupiter.  This however is not true:  for Plato will answer for his opinion by my voice.  I do not, says he, assert that the gods are separated and alienated from us, so as to think that not even our prayers reach them; for I do not remove them from an attention to, but only from a contact with human affairs.”]

[Footnote 201:  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 63, 64) gives another reason.  Sulla was alarmed at the assassination of his colleague Quintus Pompeius Rufus, and left Rome by night for Capua, whence he set out for Greece.]

[Footnote 202:  This was the country on the west coast of Asia Minor, of which the Romans had formed the province of Asia.  Mithridates took advantage of the Romans being busied at home with domestic troubles to advance his interests in Asia, where he was well received by the people, who were disgusted with the conduct of the Roman governors.  He had defeated the Roman generals L. Cassius, Manius Aquilius, and Q. Oppius. (Appian, Mithridatic War, c. 17, &c.) He also ordered all the Romans and Italians who were in Asia, with their wives and children, to be murdered on one day; which was done.]