r election, and being convicted,
retired to Athens. Several letters of Cicero to him are still extant.
Lucretius dedicated his poem to Memmius. See the Note of Manutius on
Cicero, _Ad Familiares_, xiii. 1.

Orelli (_Onomastic._ C. Memmius Gemillus) refers to Cicero, _Pro
Balbo_, c. 2, to show that this Memmius was quaestor under Pompeius in
his Spanish campaign. But according to Plutarch, a Memmius fell in
battle in this war (Life of Sertorius, c. 21).]

[Footnote 425: Lucullus triumphed B.C. 63, in the consulship of
Cicero. (Cicero, _Academ. Prior_, ii. 1.)]

[Footnote 426: Servilia was the half sister of M. Porcius Cato the
younger. Livia, the daughter of M. Livius Drusus, who was consul B.C.
112 and the sister of the tribune M. Livius Drusus B.C. 91, was
married to M. Porcius Cato, by whom she became the mother of M.
Porcius Cato the younger, or of Utica. She was divorced from Cato, and
then married Q. Servilius Caepio, the brother of the Caepio who was
defeated by the Cimbri. Some critics made Caepio her first husband. She
had by Caepio a daughter Servilia, who married L. Lucullus, and another
Servilia, who married M. Junius Brutus and was the mother of M. Junius
Brutus, one of the assassins of C. Julius Caesar. Plutarch in various
passages clearly distinguishes these two women, though some critics
think there was only one Servilia. Caesar was a lover of the mother of
Brutus, and he gave her an estate at Naples. (Cicero, _Ad Attic_, xiv.
21.)]

[Footnote 427: This is the word of Plutarch ([Greek: tes
aristokratias]), which he seems to use here like the Roman "Nobilitas"
to express the body of the Nobiles or Optimates, as they were called
by a term which resembled the Greek [Greek: aristoi]. (See Tiberius
Gracchus, c. 10, notes.)]

[Footnote 428: The original is made somewhat obscure by the words
[Greek: hosper ou], which introduce the concluding sentence; it is not
always easy to see in such cases whose is the opinion that is
expressed. Plutarch means to say that Lucullus thought that luxury was
more suitable to his years than war or affairs of state, and that
Pompeius and Crassus differed from him on this point. Compare the Life
of Pompeius, c. 48.]

[Footnote 429: These gardens in the reign of Claudius belonged to
Valerius Asiaticus. Messalina the wife of Claudius, coveted the
gardens, and Valerius, after being charged with various offences was
graciously allowed by the emperor to choose his own way of dyi