om he
showed himself; or Julius Proculus was one of the few who could claim
to have the story of such an appearance believed. (Liv. i. 16.)]

[Footnote 354: I have kept the Greek word ([Greek: stele]), for no
English word exactly expresses the thing. It was a stone placed
upright, with an inscription on a flat surface, the summit of which
sometimes ended with an ornamental finish. There are several in the
British Museum.]

[Footnote 355: This river enters Lake Apollonias on the south side of
the lake, and issues from the north side of the lake, whence it flows
in a general north direction into the Propontis. Apollonia, now
commonly called Abullionte, though the Greeks still call it by its
ancient name, is situated on a small island which is on the east side
of Lake Apollonias and is now connected with the mainland by a wooden
bridge. If the battle was fought on the river, the women must have
gone a considerable distance for their plunder. (Hamilton,
_Researches_, &c. ii. 88, &c.)]

[Footnote 356: Kaltwasser remarks that Livius (37, c. 40) mentions
camels as being in the army of Antiochus. The passage of Sallustius
must have been in his Roman History.]

[Footnote 357: This river is to the west of Kyzikus and enters the
Propontis by a general north course. On the banks of this river
Alexander won his first victory in his Persian Campaign. (Arrian,
_Anab._ i. 14.) Appian, in his account of the defeat of the army of
Mithridates (_Mithridat. War_, c. 76) places it on the AEsepus, a river
which lies between Kyzikus and the Granikus, and also flows into the
Propontis. He also adds that the AEsepus was then at its greatest
flood, which contributed to the loss of Mithridutes. But it appears
from Appian that the remnant of the army of Mithridates crossed the
Granikus also, for they reached Lampsakus.]

[Footnote 358: The Troad is a district, but Plutarch expresses himself
as if he meant a town. It appears that Lucullus was near Ilium. The
Achaean harbour, or harbour of the Achaeans, is near the promontory
Sigeium.]

[Footnote 359: Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 77) simply says that
Lucullus ordered Varius (the Marius of Plutarch) to be put to death.]

[Footnote 360: This town was at the eastern extremity of the long
inlet of the Propontis, called the Gulf of Astakus. Mithridates
according to Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 76) fled in his ships from
Kyzikus to Parium, which is near the western extremity of the
Propontis and