[Footnote 330:  This was the consul L. Valerius Flaccus.  See the Life of Sulla, c. 20.]

[Footnote 331:  Lektum is a promontory of the Troad, which is that district of Asia Minor that took its name from the old town of Troja or Troia, and lay in the angle between the Hellespont (the Dardanelles), and the AEgean or Archipelago.  It is fully described by Strabo, lib. xiii.]

[Footnote 332:  Kaltwasser has translated this passage differently from his predecessors:  “turned his ship aside by a quick movement and made all his men crowd to the stern.”  But his version is probably wrong.  The expression [Greek:  epi prumnan osasthai] is perhaps equivalent to [Greek:  prumnon krouesthai]. (Thucydides, i. 50.)]

[Footnote 333:  See Life of Sulla, c. 24, 25.]

[Footnote 334:  It is conjectured by Leopoldus that there is an error here, and that the name should be Manius, and that Manius Aquilius is meant, whom, together with others, the Mitylenaeans gave up in chains to Mithridates. (Vell.  Paterc. ii. 18.)]

[Footnote 335:  This is a place on the coast of the mainland, and east of Pitane.]

[Footnote 336:  Lucullus was consul B.C. 74, with M. Aurelius Cotta for his colleague.]

[Footnote 337:  See the Life of Pompeius, c. 20, and the Life of Sertorius, c. 21.]

[Footnote 338:  P. Cornelius Cethegus originally belonged to the party of Marius, and he accompanied the younger Marius in his flight to Africa B.C. 88 (Life of Marius, c. 40).  He returned to Rome B.C. 87, and in the year B.C. 83 he attached himself to Sulla after his return from Asia and was pardoned.  After Sulla’s death he had great influence at Rome, though he never was consul.  Cicero (Brutus, c. 48), speaks of him as thoroughly acquainted with all the public business and as having great weight in the Senate.]

[Footnote 339:  He is commemorated by Cicero (Brutus, c. 62) as a man well fitted for speaking in noisy assemblies.  He was a tribune in the year of the consulship of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 340:  This was L. Octavius, who was consul with C. Aurelius Cotta B.C. 75.]

[Footnote 341:  Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius.  See the Life of Sertorius.]

[Footnote 342:  This is the closed sea that lies between the two channels, by one of which, the Thracian Bosporus or the channel of Constantinople, it is connected with the Euxine or Black Sea, and by the other, the Hellespontus or Dardanelles, it is connected with the AEgean Sea or the Archipelago.  This is now the Sea of Marmora.  Part of the southern and eastern coast belonged to Bithynia.  The city of Kyzikus was within the Propontis.]

[Footnote 343:  See the Life of Sulla, c. 25.]

[Footnote 344:  The sophists of Plutarch’s time were rhetoricians, who affected to declaim on any subject, which they set off with words and phrases and little more.  One of the noted masters of this art, Aristides of Bithynia, might have been known to Plutarch, though he was younger than Plutarch.  Many of his unsubstantial declamations are extant.  Plutarch in his Life of Lucullus, c. 22, has mentioned another of this class.]