ife of Sulla, c. 6.]

[Footnote 318: This line is also quoted by Plutarch in his Treatise
'De Sera Numinis Vindicta,' c. 10.]

[Footnote 319: I should have translated the Greek word ([Greek:
dikologos]) "orator." Jurist in Plutarch is [Greek: nomodeiktes]
(Plutarch, _Tib. Gracchus_, c. 9) or [Greek: nomikos]. Quintus
Hortensius Ortalus, the orator, was a friend and rival of Cicero, who
often speaks of him. He began his career as a pleader in the courts at
the age of nineteen, and continued his practice for forty-four years.
(_Brutus_, c. 64, and the note in H. Meyer's edition.)]

[Footnote 320: L. Cornelius Sisenna, a man of patrician family, was
praetor, B.C. 119, and in the next year he was governor of Sicily. He
and Hortensius defended C. Verres against Cicero. He wrote the history
of the Marsic war and of the war of Sulla in Italy, which he continued
to the death of Sulla. The historical work of Sallustius began where
that of Sisenna ended. Cicero (_De Legg_. i. 2) says that Sisenna was
the best historical writer that had then appeared at Rome. He wrote
other works also, and he translated into Latin the lewd stories of
Aristides the Milesian (Plutarch, _Crassus_, c. 32; Ovidius,
_Tristia_, ii. v. 443).

See Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 64, and the notes in Meyer's edition; Krause,
_Vitae et Frag. Vet. Histor. Roman._ p. 299.]

[Footnote 321: It appears from this that the History of the Marsic war
by Lucullus was extant in the time of Plutarch. Cicero (_Ad Attic_. i.
19) mentions this Greek history of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 322: This Marcus was adopted by M. Terentius Varro, whence
after his adoption he was called M. Terentius Varro Lucullus. The
curule aedileship of the two brothers belongs to the year B.C. 79, and
the event is here placed, after Plutarch's fashion, not in the proper
place in his biography, but the story is told incidentally as a
characteristic of Lucullus. I have expressed myself ambiguously at the
end of this chapter. It should be "that Lucullus in his absence was
elected aedile with his brother." (Cicero, _Academ. Prior_. ii. 1.)]

[Footnote 323: See Life of Sulla, c. 13, &c.]

[Footnote 324: Drumann (_Geschichte Roms_, Licinii Luculli, p. 121, n.
80) observes that this winter expedition of Lucullus was "not after
the capture of Athens, as Plutarch, Lucullus, c. 2," states, and he
refers to Appian (_Mithridat._ c. 33). But Plutarch's account is not
what Drumann represents it to be. This expeditio