[Footnote 355:  This river enters Lake Apollonias on the south side of the lake, and issues from the north side of the lake, whence it flows in a general north direction into the Propontis.  Apollonia, now commonly called Abullionte, though the Greeks still call it by its ancient name, is situated on a small island which is on the east side of Lake Apollonias and is now connected with the mainland by a wooden bridge.  If the battle was fought on the river, the women must have gone a considerable distance for their plunder. (Hamilton, Researches, &c. ii. 88, &c.)]

[Footnote 356:  Kaltwasser remarks that Livius (37, c. 40) mentions camels as being in the army of Antiochus.  The passage of Sallustius must have been in his Roman History.]

[Footnote 357:  This river is to the west of Kyzikus and enters the Propontis by a general north course.  On the banks of this river Alexander won his first victory in his Persian Campaign. (Arrian, Anab. i. 14.) Appian, in his account of the defeat of the army of Mithridates (Mithridat.  War, c. 76) places it on the AEsepus, a river which lies between Kyzikus and the Granikus, and also flows into the Propontis.  He also adds that the AEsepus was then at its greatest flood, which contributed to the loss of Mithridutes.  But it appears from Appian that the remnant of the army of Mithridates crossed the Granikus also, for they reached Lampsakus.]

[Footnote 358:  The Troad is a district, but Plutarch expresses himself as if he meant a town.  It appears that Lucullus was near Ilium.  The Achaean harbour, or harbour of the Achaeans, is near the promontory Sigeium.]

[Footnote 359:  Appian (Mithridat.  War, c. 77) simply says that Lucullus ordered Varius (the Marius of Plutarch) to be put to death.]

[Footnote 360:  This town was at the eastern extremity of the long inlet of the Propontis, called the Gulf of Astakus.  Mithridates according to Appian (Mithridat.  War, c. 76) fled in his ships from Kyzikus to Parium, which is near the western extremity of the Propontis and west of the Granikus.  From Parium he sailed to Nikomedia, a fact omitted by Plutarch, which explains the other fact, which he does mention, of Voconius being ordered to Nikomedia to look after the king.]

[Footnote 361:  This island lies in the Archipelago off the coast of Thrace.  It was noted for certain religious rites in honour of the gods called Kabeiri. (Strabo, p. 472.)]

[Footnote 362:  This place was on the coast of Bithynia.  Appian (c. 78) says that Mithridates landed at Sinope (Sinab), a large town considerably east of Heraklea, on the coast of the Black Sea; and that from Sinope he went along the coast to Amisus.  See c. 23.]

[Footnote 363:  This notion is common in the Greek writers; the gods brought misfortune on those whose prosperity was excessive, and visited them with punishment for arrogant speaking and boasting.  Among instances of those whose prosperity at last brought calamity on them was Polykrates, tyrant of Samos (Herodotus, iii. 125); a notorious instance of the danger of prosperity.  See vol. i.  Life of Camillus, ch. 37, note.]