[Footnote 735:  Caesar took Ariminum (Rimini) in B.C. 49.  See the Life of Caesar, c. 33, and the Life of Pompeius, c. 60.]

[Footnote 736:  In South Italy, now Calabria Ultra.  This Munatius was probably Munatius Rufus.]

[Footnote 737:  In Caesar’s Anticato, which has often been mentioned.  It seems that Caesar raked up all that he could in Cato’s life that was against him, and this affair of Marcia furnished him with plausible matter.  Hortensius died B.C. 50.  Drumann remarks (Porcii, p. 198), “that she lived, after the year 56, in which she reconciled Cato with Munatius Rufus, with the consent of Cato, with Hortensius, after whose death in the year 50 she returned into her former relation,” that is, she became again the wife of Cato.  If so, Cato must have married her again (see note, c. 25), as Plutarch says that he did.  Drumann speaks as if Cato had a reversion of her, which became an estate in possession after the estate of Hortensius was determined by her death.]

[Footnote 738:  The quotation is from the Hercules [Greek:  Herakles mainomenos] of Euripides (v. 173), one of the extant plays.]

[Footnote 739:  See Life of Caesar, c. 72.]

[Footnote 740:  Another allusion to the Anticato.  It is difficult to see what probable charge Caesar could make of this circumstance.  The meaning of Plutarch may easily be conjectured (Drumann, Porcii, p. 192).]

[Footnote 741:  See the Life of Pompeius, c. 65; and the Life of Caesar, c. 39.]

[Footnote 742:  Cn.  Pompeius, the elder son of Pompeius Magnus is meant.  It is conjectured that the word “young” ([Greek:  neon]) has fallen out of the text (compare c. 58).  He had been sent by his father to get ships, and he arrived with an Egyptian fleet on the coast of Epirus shortly before the battle of Pharsalus.  On the news of the defeat of Pompeius Magnus, the Egyptians left him (Dion Cassius, 42. c. 12).]

[Footnote 743:  He must also have seen Cornelia, for Sextus was with her.  Life of Pompeius, c. 78.]

[Footnote 744:  These people are described by Herodotus (iv. 173) as having been all destroyed by the sands of the deserts, and their country, which was on the Syrtis, being occupied by the Nasamones.

Lucan (Pharsalia, ix. 891) has made the Psylli occupy a conspicuous place in the march of Cato.

                      “Gens unica terras
    Incolit a saevo serpentum innoxia morsu,
    Marmaridae Psylli:  par lingua potentibus herbis,
    Ipse cruor tutus, nullumque admittere virus
    Vel cantu cessante potest.”

Seven days is much too little for the march from Cyrene to the Carthaginian territory, and there is either an error in Plutarch’s text or a great error in his geography.]

[Footnote 745:  The name Libya occurs four times in this chapter.  Libya was the general name for the continent, but the term did not include Egypt.  In the first two instances in which the name occurs in this chapter, the word is used in the general sense.  In the other two instances it means the Roman province of Africa.  Kaltwasser has used the term Africa in all the four instances.  It is immaterial which is used, if rightly understood in both cases.]