[Footnote 201:  L. Cornelius Scipio, consul B.C. 83.  Plutarch speaks of the same event in the Life of Sulla, c. 28, where he states that the soldiers of Scipio came over to Sulla.  The two statements are contradictory, Appianus (Civil Wars, i. 85) tells the story of Scipio’s army going over to Sulla.]

[Footnote 202:  A mistake for AEsis (Esino, or Finmesino), a river which formed the boundary between Umbria and Picenum, and enters the sea north of Ancona.  Appianus (Civil Wars, i. 87) states that Metellus defeated Carinnas, the legatus of Carbo, on the AEsis (B.C. 82).]

[Footnote 203:  This was Q. Metellus Pius who afterwards commanded in Iberia against Sertorius.  See the Life of Sertorius.]

[Footnote 204:  The Greek writers often employ similes and metaphors derived from the athletic contests.  There were contests both for boys and full-grown men.  Compare the Life of Agesilaus, c. 13.]

[Footnote 205:  The marriage arrangements mentioned in this chapter took place after the capture of Praeneste, B.C. 82.  See the Life of Sulla, c. 33.  Sulla attempted to make Caesar also part with his wife (Caesar, c. 1):  but Caesar would not.  Sulla, who was a cunning man, wished to gain over to his side all the young men of promise.

Antistius had been murdered in the Senate-house, by the order of the consul, the younger Marius, who was then blockaded in Praeneste.  Q. Mucius Scaevola, the Pontifex, was murdered at the same time.  (Appianus, Civil Wars, i. 88.)]

[Footnote 206:  His true name is Perperna.  See the Life of Sertorius.]

[Footnote 207:  Cn.  Papirius Carbo was put to death, B.C. 82, in his third consulship.  Compare Appianus, Civil Wars, i. 96, and Life of Sulla, c. 28, Notes.  Valerius Maximus, ix. c. 13, gives the story of his begging for a short respite, with some other particulars.]

[Footnote 208:  Caius Oppius, an intimate friend of Caesar.  Some persons believed that he was the author of the Books on the Alexandrine, African, and Spanish campaigns, which are printed with the Gallic War of Caesar. (Suetonius, Caesar, 56.) Hs wrote various biographies.  Oppius is often mentioned by Cicero.  There is extant a letter of Cicero to him Ad Diversos, xi. 29); but it is entitled in some editions of Cicero ‘To Appius.’]

[Footnote 209:  This was Cn.  Domitius Ahenobarbus, the father-in-law of Cinna.  He had been consul B.C. 96 with C. Cassius Longinus.]

[Footnote 210:  C. Memmius, according to Drumann, the same who afterwards fell in the war against Sertorius. (Life of Sertorius, c. 21.)]

[Footnote 211:  The expedition of Pompeius to Africa was in B.C. 81.  Iarbas is said to have been a descendant of Massinissa.  He escaped from the battle.  The scene of the battle and the subsequent movements of Pompeius cannot be collected from Plutarch’s narrative, which here, as in the case of military operations generally, is of no value.  As to the age of Pompeius, see the note in Clinton’s Fasti B.C. 81.]