[Footnote 274:  Cn.  Cornelius Dolabella was consul B.C. 81.  He was afterwards Proconsul of Macedonia, and had a triumph for his victories over the Thracians and other barbarian tribes.  C. Julius Caesar, when a young man (Caesar, c. 4), prosecuted B.C. 77 Dolabella for mal-administration in his province.  Dolabella was acquitted.]

[Footnote 275:  Praeneste, now Palestrina.  This strong town was about 20 miles E. by S. of Rome near the source of the Trerus, now the Sacco, a branch of the Liris, the modern Garigliano.]

[Footnote 276:  A Roman historian of the age of Augustus, who wrote Annals, of which there were twenty-two books.]

[Footnote 277:  These were Cn.  Pompeius Magnus, who afterwards was the great opponent of C. Julius Caesar; his Life is written by Plutarch:  M. Licinius Crassus, called Dives or the Rich, whose Life is written by Plutarch; Quintus Metellus Pius, the son of Metellus Numidicus; and P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, whom Sulla made consul B.C. 79, when he declined the office himself.]

[Footnote 278:  Carbo lost courage and ran away.  He got safe to the African coast, whence, with many men of rank, he made his way to Sicily, and thence to the small island of Cossyra.  Cn.  Pompeius sent men to seize him, who caught Carbo and his company:  Carbo’s followers were immediately put to death pursuant to the orders of Pompeius.  Carbo was brought to Pompeius, and placed at his feet in chains; and after Pompeius had insulted him who had thrice been consul by pronouncing an harangue over him, Carbo was put to death, and his head was sent to Sulla. (Appian, Civil Wars, i. 96.) The statement of Plutarch (Pompeius, c. 10) agrees with that of Appian.  These and other acts of Pompeius should be remembered by those who are inclined to pity his fate.  He was probably under a necessity to put Carbo to death pursuant to the orders of his muster Sulla, but the insult might have been spared.]

[Footnote 279:  It is uncertain who he was.  See Drumann, Geschichte Roms, ii.  Claudii No. 26.]

[Footnote 280:  See c. 33.  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 93) gives a different account of this affair before the Colline gate, but agrees with Plutarch in stating that Sulla’s right wing was successful and the left was defeated.  He says that Telesinus fell in the battle.]

[Footnote 281:  Antemnae was a few miles from Rome, near the junction of the Tiber and the Anio (Teverone).]

[Footnote 282:  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 93) briefly mentions this massacre.  It took place in the Circus Flaminius, which was near the temple of Bellona.