[Footnote 320:  L. Cornelius Sisenna, a man of patrician family, was praetor, B.C. 119, and in the next year he was governor of Sicily.  He and Hortensius defended C. Verres against Cicero.  He wrote the history of the Marsic war and of the war of Sulla in Italy, which he continued to the death of Sulla.  The historical work of Sallustius began where that of Sisenna ended.  Cicero (De Legg. i. 2) says that Sisenna was the best historical writer that had then appeared at Rome.  He wrote other works also, and he translated into Latin the lewd stories of Aristides the Milesian (Plutarch, Crassus, c. 32; Ovidius, Tristia, ii. v. 443).

See Cicero, Brutus, c. 64, and the notes in Meyer’s edition; Krause, Vitae et Frag.  Vet.  Histor.  Roman. p. 299.]

[Footnote 321:  It appears from this that the History of the Marsic war by Lucullus was extant in the time of Plutarch.  Cicero (Ad Attic. i. 19) mentions this Greek history of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 322:  This Marcus was adopted by M. Terentius Varro, whence after his adoption he was called M. Terentius Varro Lucullus.  The curule aedileship of the two brothers belongs to the year B.C. 79, and the event is here placed, after Plutarch’s fashion, not in the proper place in his biography, but the story is told incidentally as a characteristic of Lucullus.  I have expressed myself ambiguously at the end of this chapter.  It should be “that Lucullus in his absence was elected aedile with his brother.” (Cicero, Academ.  Prior. ii. 1.)]

[Footnote 323:  See Life of Sulla, c. 13, &c.]

[Footnote 324:  Drumann (Geschichte Roms, Licinii Luculli, p. 121, n. 80) observes that this winter expedition of Lucullus was “not after the capture of Athens, as Plutarch, Lucullus, c. 2,” states, and he refers to Appian (Mithridat. c. 33).  But Plutarch’s account is not what Drumann represents it to be.  This expedition was in the winter of B.C. 87 and 86.  AElian (Var.  Hist. ii. 42) tells a similar story of Plato and the Arcadians, and Diogenes Laertius (iii. 17) has a like story about Plato and the Arcadians and Thebans.]

[Footnote 325:  This can only be Ptolemaeus VIII., sometimes called Soter II. and Lathyrus, who was restored to his kingdom B.C. 89-8.  The difficulty that Kaltwasser raises about Lathyrus being in Cyprus at this time is removed by the fact that he had returned from Cyprus.  As to Plutarch calling him a “young man,” that is a mistake; or Plutarch may have confounded him with his younger brother Alexander.]

[Footnote 326:  Plutarch is alluding to the Pyramids, and to the great temples of Memphis.]

[Footnote 327:  Pitane was one of the old Greek towns of AEolis, situated on the coast at the mouth of the Evenus, and opposite to the island of Lesbos, now Mytilene.]

[Footnote 328:  See Life of Sulla, c. 12.]

[Footnote 329:  See Life of Sulla, c. 21.]