[Footnote 235:  Not the mountain of that name, Kaltwasser remarks, but a town of Lycia in Asia Minor, one of the headquarters of the pirates.  Strabo (p. 671) places Olympus in Cilicia.  There was both a city and a mountain named Olympus there; and I have accordingly translated ’on Olympus.’ (Beaufort, Karamania, p. 46.)]

[Footnote 236:  Mithras was a Persian deity, as it appears.  The name occurs in many Persian compounds as Mithridates, Ithamitres, and others. Mitra is a Sanscrit name for the Sun. (Wilson, Sanscrit Dictionary.)]

[Footnote 237:  The Mediterranean.  See the Life of Sertorius, c. 8, note.  As to the limits of the command of Pompeius, compare Velleius Paterculus, ii. 31.]

[Footnote 238:  Aulus Gabinius, one of the tribunes for the year B.C. 67, proposed the measure.  The consuls of this year were C. Calpurnius Piso and M. Acilius Glabrio.]

[Footnote 239:  L. Roscius Otho, one of the tribunes, and the proposer of the unpopular law (B.C. 67) which gave the Equites fourteen separate seats at the theatre. (Velleius, ii. 32; Dion Cassius, 36, c. 25.)]

[Footnote 240:  Compare the Life of Flaminiaus, c. 10.]

[Footnote 241:  [Greek:  ekomizen] in the text.  The reading is perhaps wrong, and the sense is doubtful.  Reiske conjectured that it should be [Greek:  ekolaze].]

[Footnote 242:  This place is on the coast of the Rough or Mountainous Cilicia, on a steep rock near the sea. (Strabo, p. 668; Beaufort’s Karamania, p. 174.)]

[Footnote 243:  Soli was an Achaean and Rhodian colony.  After being settled by Pompeius, it received the name of Pompeiopolis, or the city of Pompeius.  It is on the coast of the Level Cilicia, twenty miles west of the mouth of the river Cydnus, on which Tarsus stood.  Soli was the birthplace of the Stoic Chrysippus, and of Philemon the comic writer. (Strabo, p. 671; Beaufort’s Kar., p. 259.)]

[Footnote 244:  Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 26.]

[Footnote 245:  One of the towns of Achaea in the Peloponnesus, near the borders of Elis.  Pausanias (vii. 17).

As to the number of the pirates who surrendered, see Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 96).]

[Footnote 246:  Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus is stated by some modern writers to have been a son of Metellus Dalmaticus; but it is unknown who his father and grandfather were. (Drumann, Geschichte Roms.) He had been consul B.C. 69. (Compare Velleius Paterculus, ii. 32.)]

[Footnote 247:  The passage is in the Iliad, xxii. 207.]

[Footnote 248:  Or as Plutarch writes it Mallius.  The tribune C. Manilius is meant, who carried the Lex Manilia, B.C. 66, which gave Pompeius the command in the Mithridatic war.  Cicero supported the law in the speech which is extant, Pro Lege Manilia.  It has been proposed to alter Mallius in Plutarch’s text into Manilius, but Sintenis refers to Dion Cassius (36. c. 25, 26, 27).]