quittal of Servilius, yet the part Lucullus took in it appears
to have added greatly to his credit among his contemporaries. The
special law in his favour mentioned a few lines lower down, was
passed by Sylla with whom Lucullus was in high favour; so much so
that Sylla at his death confided to him the charge of revising and
correcting his Commentaries. Cicero's statement of his perfect
inexperience in military affairs before the war against Mithridates
is not quite correct, as he had served with distinction in the
Marsic war. The time of his death is not certainly known, but Cicero
speaks of him as dead in the Oration concerning the consular
provinces, delivered B.C. 56, while he was certainly alive B.C. 59,
in which year he was charged by L. Vettius with an imaginary plot
against the life of Pompey. His second wife was Servilia,
half-sister to Cato Uticensis.

11 From {~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, a heap.

12 From {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~} an ant.

13 It is not even known to what work Cicero is referring here.

14 In the Heautontimorumenos. Act i. Sc. 1.

15 Caecilius Statius was the predecessor of Terence; by birth an
Insubrian Gaul and a native of Milan. He died B.C. 165, two years
before the representation of the Andria of Terence. He was
considered by the Romans as a great master of the art of exciting
the feelings. And Cicero (de Opt. Gen. Dic. 1.) speaks of him as the
chief of the Roman Comic writers. Horace says--

Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte.

16 Marcus Atilius, (though Cicero speaks of him here as a tragedian,)
was chiefly celebrated as a comic poet. He was one of the earliest
writers of that class; but nothing of his has come down to us. In
another place Cicero calls him "duris simusscriptor." (Epist. ad
Att. xiv. 20.)

17 Diogenes was a pupil of Chrysippus, and succeeded Zeno of Tarsus as
the head of the Stoic school at Athens. He was one of the embassy
sent to Rome by the Athenians, B.C. 155, and is supposed to have
died almost immediately afterwar