th side of the Lake Kopais.]

[Footnote 249: Orchomenus, one of the oldest towns in Boeotia and in
Greece, is situated near the point where the Kephisus enters the great
Lake. Plutarch speaks again of the Melas in the Life of Pelopidas (c.
16). Pausanias (ix. 88) says that the Melas rises seven stadia from
Orchomenus, and enters the lake Kephisus, otherwise called Kepais.]

[Footnote 250: If we assume that it was exactly two hundred years,
Plutarch wrote this passage about A.D. 114, in the reign of Trajanus.
This battle was fought B.C. 86. Hadrianus became emperor A.D. 117.
(See Preface, p. xiv.)]

[Footnote 251: Cn. Papirius Carbo was the colleague of Cinna in the
consulship B.C. 85 and 84.]

[Footnote 252: A Deliac merchant This might be a merchant of Delium,
the small town in Boeotia, on the Euripus, where Sulla and Archelaus
met. But Delos, a small rocky island, one of the Cyclades, is probably
meant Delos was at this time a great slave-market. (Strabo, p. 668.)]

[Footnote 253: Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 50) says that Archelaus
hid himself in a marsh, and afterwards made his escape to Chalkis.
Sulla's arrogance is well characterized by his speech. The
Cappadocians were considered a mean and servile people, and their
character became proverbial.]

[Footnote 254: The Roman Province of Asia. Compare Appian (_Mithridat.
War_, c. 54, 55) as to the terms of the peace.]

[Footnote 255: The death of Aristion is mentioned by Appian
(_Mithridat. War_, c. 39); but he does not speak of the poisoning.]

[Footnote 256: Maedike appears to be the right name. Thucydides (ii.
98) calls the people Maedi: they were a Thracian people. Compare Strabo
(p. 316). Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 55) speaks of this expedition
as directed aguinst the Sinti, who wore neighbours of the Maedi, and
other nations which bordered on Macedonia, and annoyed it by their
predatory incursions. Sulla thus kept his soldiers employed, which was
the practice of all prudent Roman commanders, and enriched them with
booty at the same time.]

[Footnote 257: This is the old town called Krenides, or the Little
Springs, which King Philippus, the father of Alexander the Great,
restored and gave his name to. It was near Amphipolis on the river
Strymon. (See Life of Brutus, c. 38.)]

[Footnote 258: The Troad is the north-west angle of Asia Minor, which
borders on the Hellespont and the AEgean Sea (the Archipelago). The
name of the district, Troas in Greek,