[Footnote 378:  Strabo (p. 547) quotes Theopompus, who says that the Milesians were the original founders of Amisus, and that after the Athenian colonization it was called Peiraeus.  King Mithridates Eupator (the opponent of Lucullus) added to the city.  It was a flourishing place when Strabo was writing his Geography.]

[Footnote 379:  See the Life of Sulla, c. 14.]

[Footnote 380:  See the Life of Sulla, c. 26.  Tyrannio is often mentioned by Cicero.  He arranged Cicero’s library (Ad Attic. iv. 4 and 8), and he was employed as a teacher in Cicero’s house (Ad Quint.  Frat. ii. 4).

In alluding to Tyrannio being manumitted, Plutarch means to say that by the act of manumission it was declared that Tyrannio had been made a slave, and the act of manumission gave Murena the patronal rights over him.  This Murena was the son of the Murena who is mentioned in Plutarch’s Life of Sulla (c. 17).  Cicero defended him against a charge of Ambitus or bribery at his election for the consulship, and in his oration, which is extant, he speaks highly of him.  This Murena was Consul B.C. 62, the year after Cicero was Consul.]

[Footnote 381:  This passage is very obscure.  Some critics think that Plutarch is speaking of torture.  But it is more likely that he is speaking of the debtors being in attendance at the courts and waiting under the open sky at all seasons till the suits about the debts were settled.]

[Footnote 382:  This is the Centesimae usurae of the Romans, which was at this time the usual rate.  It was one per cent. per month, or twelve per cent. per annum.  Caesar (Life of Caesar, c. 12) made a like settlement between debtor and creditor in Spain.]

[Footnote 383:  P. Appius Clodius or Claudius belonged to the Patrician Gens of the Claudii.  He was a clever, unprincipled fellow, and the bitter enemy of Cicero, whom during his tribunate he caused to be banished.  There is more about him in the Life of Caesar, c. 10.  He was killed by T. Annius Milo.

This wife of Lucullus, named Clodia, had several sisters of the same name, as usual among the Romans. (Life of Marius, c. 1.) The sister who married Q. Metellus Celer, is accused of poisoning him.]

[Footnote 384:  A name formed like Alexandreia from Antiochus, the name by which most of the Greek kings of Syria were designated.  Antiocheia, now Antakia, was on the Orontes, the chief river of Syria, and near the small place Daphne, which was much resorted to as a place of pleasure by the people of Antiocheia. (Strabo, p. 749.)]

[Footnote 385:  This was a country on the upper part of the Tigris.  It probably contains the same element as the modern Kurdistan.]

[Footnote 386:  The Skenite Arabians are the nomadic Arabs who live in tents.  Strabo (p. 747) speaks of them thus:  “The parts of Mesopotamia which are towards the south and at some distance from the mountains, and are waterless and sterile, are occupied by the Skenite Arabs, who are robbers and shepherds, and readily remove to other parts when the pastures fail and booty is scarce,” &c.]