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of this passage. Plutarch may mean to say that he has said so much on this matter in honour of Juba.] [Footnote 129: I have translated this passage literally and kept the word daemon, which is the best way of enabling the reader to judge of the meaning; of the text. If the word "daemon" is here translated "fortune," it may mislead. A like construction to the words [Greek: to daimoni summetabalein to ethos] occurs in the Life of Lucullus, c. 39. The meaning of the whole passage must be considered with reference to the sense of daemon, which is explained in the notes of the Life of Sulla, c. 6.] [Footnote 130: The Lusitani occupied a part of the modern kingdom of Portugal.] [Footnote 131: This story of the deer is told by Frontinus (_Stratagem,_ i. 11, 13), and by Gellius (xv. 22).] [Footnote 132: He was of the Aurelia Gens.] [Footnote 133: Is a small town on the coast, east of the mouth of the Baetis (Guadalquivir) and near the Straits of Gibraltar. The channel must be the Straits of Gibraltar.] [Footnote 134: This is undoubtedly the right name, though it is corrupted in the MSS. See the various readings in Sintenis, and _Sulla_ (c. 31), to which he refers. However, the corrupt readings of some MSS. clearly show what the true reading is.] [Footnote 135: Sintenis reads Domitius Calvisius. But it should be Calvinus: Calvinus was a cognomen of the Domitii. (See Livius, _Epitome_, lib. 90.) The person who is meant is L. Domitius Ahenobarbus. He fell in this battle on the Guadiana, where he was defeated by Hirtuleius. (Drumann, _Geschichte Roms_, Ahenobarbi, 19.)] [Footnote 136: That is the province which the Romans called Tarraconensis, from the town of Tarraco, Tarragona. The Tarraconensis was the north-eastern part of the Spanish peninsula. The true name of Thoranius is Thorius.] [Footnote 137: This was Q. Metellus Pius, the son of Numidicus, who was banished through the artifices of C. Marius. (Life of Marius, c. 7, &c.) He was Proconsul in Spain from B.C. 78 to 72, and was sent there in consequence of the success of Sertorius against Cotta and Fufidius.] [Footnote 138: Some critics read Lucius Lollius. See the various readings in Sintenis: his name was L. Manilius.] [Footnote 139: I should rather have translated it "Gaul about Narbo." Plutarch means the Roman Province in Gaul, which was called Narbonensis, from the town of Narbo Martius.] [Footnote 140: Commonly called Pompey the Great, whose
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