[886] Plutarch, Pompey, 27.—“The very day on which you placed your naval armies under his orders, the price of corn, until then excessive, fell at once so low that the richest harvest, in the midst of a long peace, would have scarcely produced so happy an abundance.” (Cicero, Oration for the Manilian Law, 15.)
[887] Florus and Appian do not quite agree on the division of these commands. (Appian, War of Mithridates, 95.—Florus, III. 6.)
[888] Velleius Paterculus, II. 32.—Plutarch, Pompey, 29.
[889] Dio Cassius, XXXV. 14 and 15.
[890] Plutarch, Pompey, 31.
[891] Cicero, Oration for the Manilian Law, 16.
[892] Plutarch, Pompey, 31.
[893] Cicero, Oration for the Manilian Law, 23.
[894] Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 26.—Plutarch, Lucullus, 50, 52.
[895] “The tribune Manilius, a venal soul, and the debased instrument of the ambition of others.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 33.)