[Footnote 300: The original is [Greek: lusiodos], which is explained
by Aristoxenus, quoted by Athenaeus (p. 620), as I have translated it.]

[Footnote 301: Appian does not mention this disease of Sulla, though
other writers do. Appian merely speaks of his dying of fever. Zachariae
(Life of Sulla) considers the story of his dying of the lousy disease
as a fabrication of Sulla's enemies, and probably of the Athenians
whom he had handled so cruelly. This disease, called Morbus
Pediculosus or Pthiriasis, is not unknown in modern times. Plutarch
has collected instances from ancient times. Akastus belongs to the
mythic period. Alkman lived in the seventh century B.C.: fragments of
his poetry remain. This Pherekydes was what the Greeks called
Theologus, a man who speculated on things appertaining to the nature
of the gods. He is said to have been a teacher of Pythagoras, which
shows that he belongs to an uncertain period. He was not a
Philosopher; his speculations belonged to those cosmogonical dreams
which precede true philosophy, and begin again when philosophy goes to
sleep, as we see in the speculations of the present day. Kallisthenes
is mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Alexander, c. 55. He was thrown
into prison on a charge of conspiring against Alexander. This Mucius
the lawyer ([Greek: nomikos]), or jurisconsultus, as a Roman would
call him, is the P. Mucius Scaevola who was consul in the year in which
Tiberius Gracchus was murdered.

There were two Servile wars in Sicily. Plutarch alludes to the first
which broke out B.C. 134, and is described in the Excerpts from the
thirty-fourth book of Diodorus. Diodorus says that Eunus died of this
disease in prison at Morgantina in Sicily.]

[Footnote 302: This town, also called Puteoli, the modern Pozzuolo,
was near Sulla's residence. It was originally a Greek town; and
afterwards a Roman colonia. Plutarch simply says that Granius "owed a
public debt." Valerius Maximus (ix. 3) states that Granius was a
Princeps of Puteoli and was slow in getting in the money which had
been promised by the Decuriones of Puteoli towards the rebuilding of
the Capitol. Sulla had said that nothing remained to complete his good
fortune, except to see the Capitol dedicated. No wonder that the delay
of Granius irritated such a man.]

[Footnote 303: The Roman words Postumus, Postuma, seem to have been
generally used to signify a child born after the father's death. But
they also signified a child