FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 306:  In Greece, where there were no permanent family names, it was usual for a family to repeat the same name in alternate generations.  Thus we find that the kings of Cyrene were named alternately Battus and Archelaus for eight generations, and many other examples might be quoted.]

[Footnote 307:  The Greek lamp was movable, and used to be set upon a tall slender lamp-stand or candelabrum.]

[Footnote 308:  A Thessalian tribe.]

[Footnote 309:  See vol. i.  ‘Life of Theseus,’ ch. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 310:  It has been conjectured from certain inscriptions that this name should be spelt Apsephion.  But we know that Aphepsion was a Greek name, while the other form appears unmeaning.  The passage is quoted in Clinton, ‘Fasti Hell.,’ but both forms are there used.]

[Footnote 311:  The daric was a Persian coin, named after King Darius.]

[Footnote 312:  The Kyanean or Black Islands were at the junction of the Bosporus with the Euxine, or Black Sea.  The Chelidonian or Swallow Islands were on the south coast of Lycia.]

[Footnote 313:  The office of proxenus corresponds most nearly to the modern consul.  He was bound to offer hospitality and assistance to any persons of the state which he represented; but it must be remembered that he was always a member of a foreign state.]

[Footnote 314:  A seaport town in Cyprus.]

LIFE OF LUCULLUS.

I. The grandfather of Lucullus[315] was a man of consular rank, and his uncle on the mother’s side was Metellus,[316] surnamed Numidicus.  His father was convicted of peculation, and his mother, Caecilia, had a bad name as a woman of loose habits.  Lucullus, while he was still a youth, before he was a candidate for a magistracy and engaged in public life, made it his first business to bring to trial his father’s accuser, Servilius the augur, as a public offender; and the matter appeared to the Romans to be creditable to Lucullus, and they used to speak of that trial as a memorable thing.  It was, indeed, the popular notion, that to prefer an accusation was a reputable measure, even when there was no foundation for it, and they were glad to see the young men fastening on offenders, like well-bred whelps laying hold of wild beasts.  However, there was much party spirit about that trial, and some persons were even wounded and killed; but Servilius was acquitted.  Lucullus had been trained to speak both Latin and Greek competently, so that Sulla, when he was writing his memoirs,[317] dedicated them to Lucullus as a person who would put them together and arrange his history better than himself; for the style of the oratory of Lucullus was not merely suited to business and prompt, like that of the other orators which disturbed the Forum—­

     “As a struck tunny throws about the sea,"[318]