[Footnote 249:  This was Glabrio the consul of B.C. 67 (see note on c. 25), who had been appointed to supersede Lucullus. (Life of Lucullus, c. 34, notes.)]

[Footnote 250:  The allusion is to the secession of the Plebs to the Mons Sacer, which is recorded in Livius (2. c. 32).]

[Footnote 251:  See the Life of Tib.  Gracchus, c. 12, and the note.]

[Footnote 252:  Pompeius was appointed to the command in the Mithridatic war B.C. 66, when he was in Cilicia. (Appianus, Mithridatic War, c. 97.)]

[Footnote 253:  Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 35, &c.]

[Footnote 254:  As to the events in this chapter, compare Appianus, Mithridatic War, c. 98, &c.]

[Footnote 255:  Probably a Greek woman, as we may infer from the name.  The king seems to have had a liking for Greek women.]

[Footnote 256:  This is probably a corrupted name.  It is Sinorega in Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 101).  Coraes proposes Sinora. (Strabo, p. 555.) The place is mentioned by Ammianus (quoted by Sintenis) under the name of Sinhorium or Synorium.  Strabo places Sinoria (as it is written in Casaubon’s text) on the borders of the Greater Armenia.]

[Footnote 257:  Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 101) describes the course which Mithridates took in his flight.  He spent the winter in Dioscuri, as Appianus calls it, or Dioscurias on the east coast of the Euxine; and afterwards entered the countries bordering on the Maeotis or sea of Azoff. (Compare Strabo, p. 555.)]

[Footnote 258:  He was the third son of Tigranes by the daughter of Mithridates.  The other two had been put to death by their father.  The young Tigranes appeared in the triumph of Pompeius at Rome and then was put to death. (Appianus, Mithridatic War, c. 104, 5.)]

[Footnote 259:  See the Life of Lucullus, c. 26, notes.]

[Footnote 260:  Probably Artaxata is meant, for Appianus (c. 104) says that Pompeius had advanced to the neighbourhood of Artaxata.

Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 104) places these transactions with Tigranes after the battle with the Iberians which Plutarch describes in c. 34.]

[Footnote 261:  Probably a Persian word, with the same meaning as Tiara, the head-dress of the Persians and some other Oriental nations.  The kings wore it upright to distinguish them from other people.  (Herodotus, vii. 61.)]

[Footnote 262:  A part of Armenia between the Antitaurus and the mountain range of Masius. (Strabo, p. 527.)]

[Footnote 263:  Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 104) states that Pompeius received 6000 talents (of silver?) from Tigranes; and he seems to understand it as if the money was for Pompeius.  In the other sums he agrees with Plutarch, except as to the tribunes, who received 10,000 drachmae, or one talent and 4000 drachmae, or 40 minae.

On the value of the drachma, see Life of Tib.  Gracchus, c. 2.]