ent away the very day and furthermore ordered him never to send
another one unless he should render them obedience. (Ursinus, ib.)

[Sidenote: FRAG. XCVIII] [Sidenote: B.C. 89 (_a.u._ 665)] (Par.)
Cato,[64] the greater part of whose army was effeminate and
superannuated, found his power diminished in every direction:
and once, when he had ventured to rebuke them because they were
unwilling to work hard or obey orders readily, he came near
being overwhelmed with a shower of missiles from them. He would
certainly have been killed, if they had had plenty of stones; but
since the site where they were assembled was given over to
agriculture and happened to be very wet, he received no hurt
from the clods of earth. The man who began the mutiny, Gaius
Titius,[65] was arrested: he was a low fellow who made his living in
the courts and was excessively and shamelessly outspoken; he was sent
to the city to the tribunes, but escaped punishment. (Valesius, p.
641.)

[Footnote 64: _L. Porcius Cato_ (consul B.C. 89).]

[Footnote 65: Properly _C. Titinius Sisenna_.]

[Sidenote: FRAG. XCIX] [Sidenote: B.C. 88 (_a.u._ 666)] 1. (Par.) All
the Asiatics, at the bidding of Mithridates, massacred the Romans; only
the people of Tralles did not personally kill any one, but hired a
certain Theophilus, a Paphlagonian (as if the victims were more likely
thus to escape destruction, or as if it made any difference to them by
whom they should be slaughtered). (Valesius, p. 642.)

2. (Par.) The Thracians, persuaded by Mithridates, overran Epirus and
the rest of the country as far as Dodona, going even to the point of
plundering the temple of Zeus. (Valesius, ib.)

[Sidenote: FRAG. C] [Sidenote: B.C. 87 (_a.u._ 667)] 1. (Par.) Cinna,
as soon as he took possession of the office, was anxious upon no one
point so much as to drive Sulla out of Italy. He made Mithridates his
excuse, but in reality wanted this leader to remove himself that he
might not, by lurking close at hand, prove a hindrance to the objects
that Cinna had in mind. He fairly distinguished himself by his zeal
for Sulla and would refuse to promise nothing that pleased him. For
Sulla, who saw the urgency of the war and was eager for its glory,
before starting had arranged everything at home for his own best
interests. He appointed Cinna and one Gnaeus Octavius to be his
successors, hoping in this way to retain considerable power even while
absent. The second of the two he understood wa