n was in the winter of
B.C. 87 and 86. AElian (_Var. Hist._ ii. 42) tells a similar story of
Plato and the Arcadians, and Diogenes Laertius (iii. 17) has a like
story about Plato and the Arcadians and Thebans.]

[Footnote 325: This can only be Ptolemaeus VIII., sometimes called
Soter II. and Lathyrus, who was restored to his kingdom B.C. 89-8. The
difficulty that Kaltwasser raises about Lathyrus being in Cyprus at
this time is removed by the fact that he had returned from Cyprus. As
to Plutarch calling him a "young man," that is a mistake; or Plutarch
may have confounded him with his younger brother Alexander.]

[Footnote 326: Plutarch is alluding to the Pyramids, and to the great
temples of Memphis.]

[Footnote 327: Pitane was one of the old Greek towns of AEolis,
situated on the coast at the mouth of the Evenus, and opposite to the
island of Lesbos, now Mytilene.]

[Footnote 328: See Life of Sulla, c. 12.]

[Footnote 329: See Life of Sulla, c. 21.]

[Footnote 330: This was the consul L. Valerius Flaccus. See the Life
of Sulla, c. 20.]

[Footnote 331: Lektum is a promontory of the Troad, which is that
district of Asia Minor that took its name from the old town of Troja
or Troia, and lay in the angle between the Hellespont (the
Dardanelles), and the AEgean or Archipelago. It is fully described by
Strabo, lib. xiii.]

[Footnote 332: Kaltwasser has translated this passage differently from
his predecessors: "turned his ship aside by a quick movement and made
all his men crowd to the stern." But his version is probably wrong.
The expression [Greek: epi prumnan osasthai] is perhaps equivalent to
[Greek: prumnon krouesthai]. (Thucydides, i. 50.)]

[Footnote 333: See Life of Sulla, c. 24, 25.]

[Footnote 334: It is conjectured by Leopoldus that there is an error
here, and that the name should be Manius, and that Manius Aquilius is
meant, whom, together with others, the Mitylenaeans gave up in chains
to Mithridates. (Vell. Paterc. ii. 18.)]

[Footnote 335: This is a place on the coast of the mainland, and east
of Pitane.]

[Footnote 336: Lucullus was consul B.C. 74, with M. Aurelius Cotta for
his colleague.]

[Footnote 337: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 20, and the Life of
Sertorius, c. 21.]

[Footnote 338: P. Cornelius Cethegus originally belonged to the party
of Marius, and he accompanied the younger Marius in his flight to
Africa B.C. 88 (Life of Marius, c. 40). He returned to Rome B.C. 87,
and in the year