by mountains, and all the drainage of the plain
of which those of Elateia and Orchomenus are part is received in the
basin of the lake, which has no outlet.]

[Footnote 228: This city was burnt by Xerxes in his invasion of Greece
B.C. 480. (Herodotus, viii. 33.) Pausanias (x. 33) says that it was
not rebuilt by the Boeotians and Athenians: in another passage (x. 3)
he says it was destroyed by Philip after the close of the Sacred or
Phokian war B.C. 346; and therefore it had been rebuilt by somebody.]

[Footnote 229: The soldiers who had shields of brass.]

[Footnote 230: This was Aulus Gabinius, who was sent by Sulla B.C. 81
with orders to L. Licinius Murena to put an end to the war with
Mithridates. Ericius is not a Roman name: perhaps it should be
Hirtius.]

[Footnote 231: This is Juba II., king of Mauritania, who married
Cleopatra, one of the children of Marcus Antonius by Cleopatra, queen
of Egypt. Juba was a scholar and an author: he is often quoted, by
Strabo, Plinius (_Nat Hist._), and other writers.]

[Footnote 232: "Our city" will explain why Plutarch has described the
campaign in the plains of Boeotia at such length. Plutarch's battles
are none of the best; and he has done well in making them generally
short.]

[Footnote 233: The cave of Trophonius was at Lebadeia in Boeotia.
Pausanias (ix. 39) has given a full account of the singular ceremonies
used on consulting the deity.]

[Footnote 234: The word is [Greek: omphes], literally "voice," which
has caused a difficulty to the translators; but the reading is
probably right.]

[Footnote 235: This was Lucius Licinius Murena, who conducted the war
against Mithridates in Asia B.C. 83 as Propraetor. He was the father of
the Lucius Murena in whose defence we have an extant oration of
Cicero.]

[Footnote 236: The old story is well told by Ovidius (_Metamorphoses,_
iii. 14, &c.)]

[Footnote 237: A temple of the Muses.]

[Footnote 238: Kaltwasser has followed the reading "Gallus" in his
version, though, as he remarks in a note, this man is called Galba by
Appian (_Mithridat. War_, 43), and he is coupled with Hortensius, just
as in Plutarch.]

[Footnote 239: This clumsy military contrivance must generally have
been a failure. These chariots were useless in the battle between
Cyrus and his brother Artaxerxes B.C. 401. (Xenophon, _Anabasis_, i.
8.) Appian (_Mithridatic War_, c. 42) mentions sixty of these chariots
as being driven against the Romans, who ope