skill or cowardice, but by his own
courage and ability. This, however, happened afterwards.

XXXVII. When Lucullus returned to Rome, first of all he found that his
brother Marcus was under prosecution by Caius Memmius,[424] for what
he had done in his quaestorship at the command of Sulla. Upon Marcus
being acquitted, Memmius transferred his attack to Lucullus himself,
and endeavoured to excite the people against him, and persuaded them
not to give him a triumph, on the ground that he had appropriated to
himself much of the spoils, and had prolonged the war. Now that
Lucullus was involved in a great struggle, the first and most powerful
men, mingling themselves among the tribes, by much entreaty and
exertion with difficulty persuaded the people to allow Lucullus to
have a triumph;[425] not, however, like some, a triumph which was
striking and bustling, from the length of the procession, and the
quantity of things that were displayed, but he decorated the circus of
Flaminius with the arms of the enemy, of which he had a great
quantity, and with the royal engines of war; and it was a spectacle in
itself far from being contemptible. In the procession a few of the
mailed horsemen, and ten of the scythe-bearing chariots moved along,
with sixty of the king's friends and generals, and a hundred and ten
brazen-beaked ships of war also were carried in the procession, and a
gold statue of Mithridates six feet high, and a shield ornamented with
precious stones, and twenty litters loaded with silver vessels, and
two-and-thirty loaded with golden cups, armour, and money. All this
was carried on men's shoulders; but there were eight mules that bore
golden couches, and fifty-six carried silver in bars, and a hundred
and seven others carried silver coin to the amount of near two million
seven hundred thousand pieces. There were also tablets, on which was
written the amount of money that Lucullus had supplied Pompeius with
for the pirates' war, and the amount that he had paid to those who had
the care of the aerarium; and besides this, it was added that every
soldier received nine hundred and fifty drachmae. After this Lucullus
feasted all the city in a splendid style, and the surrounding villages
which the Romans call Vici.

XXXVIII. After Lucullus had divorced Clodia, who was a loose and
unprincipled woman, he married Servilia,[426] the sister of Cato, but
neither was this a happy marriage; for he thus escaped only one of the
misfor