[Footnote 160:  Compare the Life of Sulla, c. 11.]

[Footnote 161:  See the Life of Sulla, c. 24.]

[Footnote 162:  Kaltwasser quotes Reiske, who observes that Plutarch, who wrote under the Empire, expresses himself after the fashion of his age, when the Roman Caesars lived on the Palatine.]

[Footnote 163:  The treaty with Mithridates was made B.C. 75.  This Marius is mentioned in the Life of Lucullus, c. 8.  Appian (Mithridatic War, c. 68) calls him Marcus Varius, and also states that Sertorius agreed to give Mithridates, Asia, Bithynia, Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, and Galatia.  In the matter of Asia the narratives of Plutarch and Appian are directly opposed to one another.]

[Footnote 164:  This may be literally rendered “Marcus Marius together with whom Mithridates having captured some of the Asiatic cities;” Kaltwasser renders it, “in connection with him (Marcus Marius) Mithrdates conquered some towns in Asia.”  But the context shows that Marcus Marius was to be considered the principal, and that the towns were not conquered in order to be given to Mithridates.]

[Footnote 165:  Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 20.]

[Footnote 166:  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 112) does not mention this massacre of the Iberian boys; but he states that Sertorius had become odious to the Romans whom he now distrusted, and that he employed Iberians instead of the Romans as his body-guard.  He also adds that the character of Sertorius was changed, that he gave himself up to wine and women, and was continually sustaining defeats.  These circumstances and fear for his own life, according to Appian, led Perperna to conspire against Sertorius (i. 113).]

[Footnote 167:  Perhaps Octavius Gracimus, as the name appears in Frontinus (Stratagem. ii. 5, 31).]

[Footnote 168:  [Greek:  te braduteti tes lalias.] The meaning of these words may be doubtful; but what I have given is perhaps consistent with the Greek and with the circumstances.  There was some hesitation about beginning the attack, and the flagging of the conversation was a natural consequence.

Sertorius was murdered B.C. 72, in the consulship of L. Gellius Publicola and Cn.  Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, in the eighth year of his command in Spain. (Livius, Epitom. 96.) Accordingly this places the commencement of his command in B.C. 80; but he went to Spain in B.C. 82, or at the end of B.C. 83.  See Notes on c. 6.  Appian (Civil Wars, i. 114) states that when the will of Sertorius was opened it was discovered that he had placed Perperna among his heredes, a circumstance which throws doubt on the assertion of Appian that Perperna was afraid that Sertorius intended to take his life.  Appian adds that when this was known, it created great enmity against Perperna among his followers.