[Footnote 237: The Mediterranean. See the Life of Sertorius, c. 8, note. As to the limits of the command of Pompeius, compare Velleius Paterculus, ii. 31.] [Footnote 238: Aulus Gabinius, one of the tribunes for the year B.C. 67, proposed the measure. The consuls of this year were C. Calpurnius Piso and M. Acilius Glabrio.] [Footnote 239: L. Roscius Otho, one of the tribunes, and the proposer of the unpopular law (B.C. 67) which gave the Equites fourteen separate seats at the theatre. (Velleius, ii. 32; Dion Cassius, 36, c. 25.)] [Footnote 240: Compare the Life of Flaminiaus, c. 10.] [Footnote 241: [Greek: ekomizen] ἐκόμιζεν in the text. The reading is perhaps wrong, and the sense is doubtful. Reiske conjectured that it should be [Greek: ekolaze] ἐκόλαζε.] [Footnote 242: This place is on the coast of the Rough or Mountainous Cilicia, on a steep rock near the sea. (Strabo, p. 668; Beaufort's _Karamania_, p. 174.)] [Footnote 243: Soli was an Achæan and Rhodian colony. After being settled by Pompeius, it received the name of Pompeiopolis, or the city of Pompeius. It is on the coast of the Level Cilicia, twenty miles west of the mouth of the river Cydnus, on which Tarsus stood. Soli was the birthplace of the Stoic Chrysippus, and of Philemon the comic writer. (Strabo, p. 671; Beaufort's _Kar._, p. 259.)] [Footnote 244: Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 26.] [Footnote 245: One of the towns of Achæa in the Peloponnesus, near the borders of Elis. Pausanias (vii. 17). As to the number of the pirates who surrendered, see Appianus (_Mithridatic War_, c. 96).] [Footnote 246: Q. Cæcilius Metellus Creticus is stated by some modern writers to have been a son of Metellus Dalmaticus; but it is unknown who his father and grandfather were. (Drumann, _Geschichte Roms_.) He had been consul B.C. 69. (Compare Velleius Paterculus, ii. 32.)] [Footnote 247: The passage is in the Iliad, xxii. 207.] [Footnote 248: Or as Plutarch writes it Mallius. The tribune C. Manilius is meant, who carried the Lex Manilia, B.C. 66, which gave Pompeius the command in the Mithridatic war. Cicero supported the law in the speech which is extant, Pro Lege Manilia. It has been proposed to alter Mallius in Plutarch's text into Manilius, but Sintenis refers to Dion Cassius (36. c. 25, 26, 27).] [Footnote 249: This was Glabrio the consul of B.C. 67 (see note on c. 25), who had been appointed to supersede Lucullus. (Life of Lucullus, c. 34, notes.)] [Footnote 250: The allusion is to the secession of the Plebs to the Mons Sacer, which is recorded in Livius (2. c. 32).] [Footnote 251: See the Life of Tib. Gracchus, c. 12, and the note.] [Footnote 252: Pompeius was appointed to the command in the Mithridatic war B.C. 66, when he was in Cilicia. (Appianus, _Mithridatic War_, c. 97.)] [Footnote 253: Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 35, &c.] [Footnote 254: As to the events in this chapter, compare Appianus, _Mithridatic War_, c. 98, &c.]