CHAPTER 90. _Carmendas_, _Damigeron_, &c. _Carmendas_ is unknown. _Damigeron_ is mentioned elsewhere as a magician (Tertull. de Anima, 57), but nothing is known of him. _Moses_ appears as a magician in the magical papyri (Griffiths Thompson pap. col. v, p. 47 (13)). The miracles wrought by Moses in Egypt sufficiently account for this. _Jannes_, one of the Egyptian magicians worsted by Moses. Cp. Epistle to Timothy ii. 3. 8. _Apollobex_, a magician named _Apollobeches_ is mentioned by Pliny, N.H. xxx. 9, as also is _Dardanus_. For _Ostanes_ and _Zoroaster_ see chaps. 25 and 27, notes. CHAPTER 95. _Cato_, the earliest of the great orators of Rome: for his excellences see Cicero, Brutus, 65 sqq. (Cp. note on chap. 17). _Laelius_, see note on chap. 20. Cicero selects _lenitas_ as the chief characteristic of his style (de Orat. iii. 7. 28). _Gracchus_ (Caius Sempronius) was famous for the fire of his oratory (cp. Cic. Brut. 125, 126, de Orat. iii. 56. 214). _Caesar_ is generally praised chiefly for _elegantia_ in his oratory, rather than for his warmth (cp. Cic. Brut. 252, 261, Quint. x. 1. 114). _Hortensius_, Cicero's chief rival: a master of the Asiatic style (cp. Cic. Brut. 228, 9. 302, 3. 325-8). _Calvus_, a contemporary of Cicero. One of the chief representatives of the Attic style (cp. Cic. Brut. 283). _Sallust_, the famous historian. CHAPTER 98. _The garb of manhood._ He had already assumed the _toga virilis_, cp. chap. 88. This must be taken metaphorically = 'You let him behave like a man.' CHAPTER 101. _He who can plead in court_, &c. There is a play on _perorare_ (= to plead in court) and _exorare_ (= to win over his mother by prayer). CHAPTER 102. _What a criminal use of love-philtres_, &c. There is a pun on _veneficium_ and _beneficium_ which cannot be reproduced. THE FLORIDA CHAPTER 2. _Plautus._ Truculentus, ii. 6. 8. _the great poet._ Homer, Iliad, iii. 12. CHAPTER 3. _Vergil._ Ecl. iii. 27. CHAPTER 4. _Antigenidas_, a famous musician of the first half of the fourth century B.C. Others attribute the grievance to his pupil Ismenias. This story is also told by Dio Chrysostom xlix. CHAPTER 6. _Nabataea_, a district at the north-east end of the Red Sea. _Arsaces_, a king of Persia (perhaps Artaxerxes II, 379 B.C.) from whom the Parthian kings traced their descent. Here _Arsacidae_ = Parthians. _Ityraea_, a district under Mount Hermon to the north of Bashan. _Ganges._ The quotation is from Statius, Silvae, ii. 4. 25. _wash gold._ Lat. _colare_ = to strain, sift. CHAPTER 7. _Alexander._ This story of his portraits is told by many writers, though Lysippus is substituted for Polycletus by the more accurate, inasmuch as Polycletus was a sculptor of the fifth century, and contemporary with Pheidias! This is quite characteristic of Apuleius. _Apelles_, the greatest of Greek painters, floruit circa 332 B.C. _Pyrgoteles_, one of the most famous gem-engravers of Greece. Little is known of him beyond this story.