Scipio attempted to escape to Spain on ship-board.  Near Hippo Regius (Bona) he was in danger of falling into the hands of P. Silius, on which he stabbed himself.  Afranius and Faustus Sulla, the son of the dictator, were taken prisoners and murdered by the soldiers in Caesar’s camp.]

[Footnote 566:  As to the death of Cato, see the Life of Cato, c. 65.]

[Footnote 567:  The work was in two books, and was written about the time of the battle of Munda, B.C. 45. (Suetonius, c. 56; Cicero, Ad Attic, xii. 40; Dion Cassius, 43. c. 13, and the notes of Reimarus about the “Anticato.")]

[Footnote 568:  Caesar made the kingdom of Juba a Roman province, of which he appointed C. Sallustius, the historian, proconsul.  He laid heavy impositions on the towns of Thapsus and Hadrumetum.  He imposed on the people of Leptis an annual tax of 3,000,000 pounds weight of oil (pondo olei), which Plutarch translates by the Greek word litrae.  On his voyage to Rome he stayed at Carales (Cagliari) in Sardinia.  He reached Rome at the end of July, B.C. 46. (African War, 97, &c.)

Dion Cassius (43. c. 15, &c.) gives us a speech of Caesar before the Senate on his return to Rome.]

[Footnote 569:  As Kaltwasser remarks, Plutarch has omitted the triumph over Gaul. (Dion Cassius, 43. c. 19; Appianus, Civil Wars, ii. 101.) After the triumph Vercingetorix was put to death.  Arsinoe, the sister of Kleopatra, appeared in the Egyptian triumph in chains.]

[Footnote 570:  See the Life of Sulla, c. 16 notes; and Dion Cassius, 51. c. 15.]

[Footnote 571:  Plutarch has the word [Greek:  triklinos].  The Latin form is triclinium, a couch which would accomodate three persons at table.  The word is of Greek origin, and simply means a place which will allow three persons to recline upon it.  As triclinia were placed in eating-rooms, such a room is sometimes called triclinium.  It is sometimes incorrectly stated that triclinium means three couches, and that a dining-room had the name of triclinium because it contained three couches; which is absurd.  Vitruvius describes oeci(dining-rooms) square and large enough to contain four triclinia, and leave room also for the servants (vi. 10).  It may be true that three couches was a common number in a room.]

[Footnote 572:  There was no census this year, as Rualdus quoted by Kaltwasser shows.  Augustus had a census made in his sixth consulship, B.C. 28; and there had then been none for twenty-four years.  That of B.C. 42 was in the consulship of M. AEmilius Lepidus and Munatius Plancus.  It has been remarked that Plutarch gives the exact numbers that are given in Suetonius (Caesar, 41), when he is speaking of the number of poor citizens who received an allowance of corn from the state, which number Caesar reduced from 320,000 to 150,000.  This passage, compared with Dion Cassius (43. c. 21), seems to explain the origin of Plutarch’s statement.  Appianus (Civil Wars, ii. 102) also supposed that it was a census.  See Clinton, Fasti, Lustra Romana, B.C. 50. (See the Life of Caius Gracchus, c. 5, notes.)]