measure
to prevent the proposed law of Sulpicius from being carried. Appian
says that Sulpicius carried this law, and the tribes in which the new
citizens now had the majority appointed Marius to the command in the
war against Mithridates. But Sulla and Pompeius afterwards got all the
laws of Sulpicius repealed on the ground of being earned by
unconstitutional means. (Appian, _Civil Wars_, i. 59).]

[Footnote 120: This act is sufficient to stamp Marius with infamy; and
it is not the only time that he did it. Octavius, an honest man,
refused to arm the slave against his master. (Marius, c. 42). The last
British governor of Virginia closed his inglorious career by the same
unsuccessful act of cowardice. (November, 1775). "In November Lord
Dunmore proclaimed martial law in the colony, and executed his
long-threatened plan of giving freedom to all slaves who could bear
arms and would flock to his standard. But these measures, though
partially annoying, had the effect of irritating and rousing the
people rather than breaking their spirit." (Tucker's _Life of
Jefferson_, vol. i. p. 78). Before the middle of the next year Dunmore
made his escape from Virginia, after setting fire to the town of
Norfolk.]

[Footnote 121: The site of this place is unknown. Cramer (_Ancient
Italy_, ii. 31) says that the place is only mentioned by Dionysius
(ii. 37).]

[Footnote 122: Appian calls this Marius the adopted son of Caius
Marius.]

[Footnote 123: The port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber.]

[Footnote 124: Circeii is a promontory which contains a solitary
elevation, now Monte Circello. Terracina or Anxur is about twelve
miles east of it, and the Pomptine marshes lie between. This tract is
now very thinly inhabited, being used for pasturage, and it was
apparently in the same state in the time of Marius. Yet this desolate
tract where a house is now rarely seen was once full of Latin towns,
in the earlier period of Rome.]

[Footnote 125: This is the older Greek poet of the name. It is unknown
when he lived, but he belongs to a period earlier than that of
authentic history. Aristotle (_Hist. of Animals_, vi. 5) quotes this
line, and in Bekker's edition the last word is [Greek: alegizei],
which I have translated. Sintenis reads [Greek: alubazei], and
Kaltwasser says that [Greek: alegizei] cannot have the meaning which I
and others have given to it.]

[Footnote 126: Minturnae is near the mouth of the Liris, now the
Garigliano, and i