[Footnote 383:  This town was near the mouth of the Strymon, a river of Thrace, and out of the direct route to Lesbos.  The reason of Pompeius going there is explained by Caesar (Civil War, iii. 102).  Cornelia was at Mitylene in Lesbos with Sextus, the younger son of Pompeius.]

[Footnote 384:  Kratippus was a Peripatetic, and at this time the chief of that sect.  Cicero’s son Marcus afterwards heard his lectures at Athens (Cicero, De Officiis, i. 1), B.C. 44.

The last sentence of this chapter is somewhat obscure, and the opinions of the critics vary as to the reading.  See the note of Sintenis.]

[Footnote 385:  This city was on the coast of Pamphylia.  It took its name from Attalus Philadelphus, the king of Pergamum of that name, who built it.

Lucanus (viii. 251) makes Pompeius first land at Phaselis in Lycia.]

[Footnote 386:  Dion Cassius (43. c. 2) discusses this matter.  He thinks that Pompeius could never have thought of going to Parthia.  Compare Appianus (Civil Wars, ii. 83).]

[Footnote 387:  This is the King Juba mentioned in the Life of Caesar, c. 52.]

[Footnote 388:  This is Ptolemaeus Dionysius, the last of his race, and the son of the Ptolemaeus Auletes mentioned in c. 49.  Auletes had been restored to his kingdom through the influence of Pompeius by A. Gabinius B.C. 55.]

[Footnote 389:  This Arsakes is called Hyrodes or Orodes in the Life of Crassus (c. 18).  Arsakes seems to have been a name common to the Parthian kings, as the representatives of Arsakes, the founder of the dynasty.  Orodes had already refused his aid to Pompeius in the beginning of the war, and put in chains Hirrus, who had been sent to him.  The Parthian demanded the cession of Syria, which Pompeius would not consent to.]

[Footnote 390:  Probably Seleukeia in Syria at the mouth of the Orontes.]

[Footnote 391:  He was now thirteen years of age, and according to his father’s testament, he and his sister Kleopatra were to be joint kings and to intermarry after the fashion of the Greek kings of Egypt.  The advisers of Ptolemaeus had driven Kleopatra out of Egypt, and on the news of her advancing against the eastern frontiers with an army, they went out to meet her.  Pelusium, on the eastern branch of the Nile, had for many centuries been the strong point on this frontier. (Caesar, Civil War, iii. 103; Dion Cassius, 42. c. 3, &c.) Pompeius approached the shore of Egypt with several vessels and about 2000 soldiers.

As to the circumstances in this chapter, compare Dion Cassius (42. c. 3), Appianus (Civil Wars, ii. 84), and Caesar (Civil War, iii. 104).  Caesar simply mentions the assassination of Pompeius.  He says no more about it.]

[Footnote 392:  The death of Pompeius is mentioned by Cicero (Ad Atticum, xi. 6).  As to his age, Drumann observes, “He was born B.C. 106, and was consequently 58 years old when he was killed, on the 29th of September, or on the day before his birthday, about the time of the autumnal equinox according to the unreformed calendar.” (Lucanus, viii 467.)]