[159] P. Scipio Nasica Metellus Pius, the future father-in-law of Pompey, who got the prætorship, was indicted for ambitus by Favonius.
[160] Ἀπολλόνιος Μόλων of Alabanda taught rhetoric at Rhodes. Cicero had himself attended his lectures. He puns on the name Molon and molæ, "mill at which slaves worked."
[162] Reading discessionibus, "divisions in the senate," with Manutius and Tyrrell, not dissentionibus; and deinde ne, but not st for si.
[163] His study, which he playfully calls by this name, in imitation of that of Atticus. See p. [30].
[164] See Letter [XV], p. [25].
[165] His translation of the Prognostics of Aratus.
[166] Gaius Octavius, father of Augustus, governor of Macedonia.
[167] The roll being unwound as he read and piled on the ground. Dicæarchus of Messene, a contemporary of Aristotle, wrote on "Constitutions" among other things. Procilius seems also to have written on polities.
[168] Herodes, a teacher at Athens, afterwards tutor to young Cicero. He seems to have written on Cicero's consulship.