[Footnote 302:  She was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, consul B.C. 95, and the third wife of Pompeius, who had three children by her.  She was not the sister of Q. Metellus Nepos and Q. Metellus Celer, as Kaltwasser says, but a kinswoman.  Cn.  Pompeius and Sextus Pompeius were the sons of Mucia.  Cicero (Ad Attic. i. 12) speaks of the divorce of Mucia and says that it was approved of; but he does not assign the reason.  C. Julius Caesar (Suetonius, Caesar, c. 50) is named as the adulterer or one of them, and Pompeius called him his AEgisthus.  After her divorce in the year B.C. 62 Mucia married M. AEmilius Scaurus, the brother of the second wife of Pompeius.  Mucia survived the battle of Actium (B.C. 31), and she was treated with respect by Octavianus Caesar (Dion Cassius, 51. c. 2; Drumann, Geschichte Roms, Pompeii, p. 557).]

[Footnote 303:  Here and elsewhere I have used Plutarch’s word [Greek:  monarchia] , ‘The government of one man,’ by which he means the Dictatorship, in some passages at least.]

[Footnote 304:  He landed in Italy B.C. 62, during the consulship of D. Junius Silanus and L. Licinius Murena.  The request mentioned at the beginning of c. 44 is also noticed in Plutarch’s Life of Cato (c. 30).  M. Pupius Piso was one of the consuls for B.C. 61.]

[Footnote 305:  This was L. Afranius, one of the legati of Pompeius, who has often been mentioned.  He was consul with Q. Metellus Celer B.C. 60 (compare Dion Cassius, 37. c. 49).  Cicero, who was writing to Atticus at the time (Ad Attic. i. 17), speaks of the bribery at the election of Afranius, and accuses Pompeius of being active on the occasion.  From this consulship Horatius (Od. ii. 1) dates the commencement of the civil wars, for in this year was formed the coalition between Caesar, Pompeius, and Crassus.  See the remark of Cato, c. 47.]

[Footnote 306:  Compare Appianus (Mithridatic War, c. 116) and Dramann, Geschichte Roms, Pompeii, p. 485.  When particular measures of money are not mentioned, Plutarch, as usual with him, means Attic drachmae.]

[Footnote 307:  The triumph of Pompeius was in B.C. 61 on his birthday (Plinius 37. c. 2).  Pompeius was born B.C. 106, and consequently he was now entering on his forty-sixth year—­Xylander (Holzmann) preferred to read ‘fifty’ instead of ‘forty.’]

[Footnote 308:  Cicero went into exile B.C. 58, and after the events mentioned in chapter 47.  Caesar returned from his province of Iberia in B.C. 60.]

[Footnote 309:  See the Life of Caesar, c. 14, as to the events mentioned in this chapter and the following.  Caesar was consul B.C. 59.]

[Footnote 310:  L. Calpurnius Piso and A. Gabinius were consuls B.C. 58, in the year in which Clodius was tribune and Cicero was exiled.]

[Footnote 311:  As to this remark of Pompeius, compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 38.]

[Footnote 312:  Compare the Life of Cato, c. 34.]