[133] Governor of Dalmatia (cp. ii. [86]).
[134] Fano.
[135] Apparently soldiers' slang. Probably at some period an officer had bribed his men under the pretence of making special grants for the purchase of nails for their shoes.
[136] 87 b.c.
[137] L. Cornelius Sisenna, who died 67 b.c. in Pompey's war against the pirates, wrote a history of his own time, dealing in particular with Sulla's wars.
[138] This or some similar incident seems to have become a respected commonplace of history and poetry (cp. chap. [25]).
[139] i.e. the main body of the legions.
[142] i.e. Aponius, Vipstanus Messala, Dillius, and Numisius (see ii. [85], iii. [9], [10]).