ther, who had been praetor, died suddenly at Pisa when
his son was in his sixteenth year.]

[Footnote 436: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 9, and notes.]

[Footnote 437: Caesar was first betrothed to Cossutia, the daughter of
a rich Roman Eques, but he broke off the marriage contract, and
married Cornelia, B.C. 83.]

[Footnote 438: A different story is told by Suetonius (_Caesar_, c. 1),
and Velleius Paterculus (ii. 43).]

[Footnote 439: Cornelius Phagita (Suetonius, c. 1, 74.) The words of
Sulla are also reported by Suetonius (c. 1).]

[Footnote 440: Nicomedes III. Caesar was sent to him by Thermus to get
ships for the siege of Mitylene. Suetonius, a lover of scandal, has
preserved a grievous imputation against Caesar, which is connected with
this visit to Nicomedes (_Caesar_, c. 2, 49). Caesar in a speech for the
Bithynians (Gellius, v. 13) calls Nicomedes his friend. He felt the
reproach keenly, and tried to clear himself (Dion Cassius, 43, c. 20).
But it is easier to make such charges than to confute them.

M. Minucius Thermus, Propraetor. Caesar served his first campaign under
him at the siege and capture of Mitylene B.C. 80. Caesar gained a civic
crown. See the note in Burmaun's edition of Suetonius.]

[Footnote 441: This island was near Miletus. Stephan. Byzant., [Greek:
Pharmakoussa].]

[Footnote 442: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 26. Caesar served a short
time against the Cilician pirates under P. Servilius Isauricus
(Sueton. _Caesar_, 2) B.C. 77, or perhaps later.]

[Footnote 443: He was now in Bithynia according to Vell. Paterculus
(ii. 42). This affair of the pirates happened according to Drumann in
B.C. 76. Plutarch places it five years earlier.]

[Footnote 444: Plutarch should probably have called him only Molo. He
was a native of Alabanda in Caria. Cicero often mentions his old
master, but always by the name of Molo only. He calls the rhetorician,
who was the master of Q. Mucius Scaevola, consul B.C. 117. Apollonius,
who was also a native of Alabanda.]

[Footnote 445: See c. 54.]

[Footnote 446: See the first chapter of the Life of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 447: Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, consul B.C. 81, afterwards was
governor of Macedonia as proconsul, in which office he was charged
with maladministration. Cicero (_Brutus_, c. 71, 92) mentions this
trial. Drumann places it in B.C. 77. Cicero (_Brutus_, c. 72) gives
his opinion of the eloquence of Caesar. (Suetonius, _Caesar_, 4; Vell.
Paterculus,