[331] Lektum is a promontory of the Troad, which is that district of Asia Minor that took its name from the old town of Troja or Troia, and lay in the angle between the Hellespont (the Dardanelles), and the Ægean or Archipelago. It is fully described by Strabo, lib. xiii.
[332] Kaltwasser has translated this passage differently from his predecessors: "turned his ship aside by a quick movement and made all his men crowd to the stern." But his version is probably wrong. The expression ἐπὶ πρύμναν ώασθαι is perhaps equivalent to πρύμνον κρούεσθαι. (Thucydides, i. 50.)
[333] See Life of Sulla, c. 24, 25.
[334] It is conjectured by Leopoldus that there is an error here, and that the name should be Manius, and that Manius Aquilius is meant, whom, together with others, the Mitylenæans gave up in chains to Mithridates. (Vell. Paterc. ii. 18.)
[335] This is a place on the coast of the mainland, and east of Pitane.
[336] Lucullus was consul B.C. 74, with M. Aurelius Cotta for his colleague.
[337] See the Life of Pompeius, c. 20, and the Life of Sertorius, c. 21.
[338] P. Cornelius Cethegus originally belonged to the party of Marius, and he accompanied the younger Marius in his flight to Africa B.C. 88 (Life of Marius, c. 40). He returned to Rome B.C. 87, and in the year B.C. 83 he attached himself to Sulla after his return from Asia and was pardoned. After Sulla's death he had great influence at Rome, though he never was consul. Cicero (Brutus, c. 48), speaks of him as thoroughly acquainted with all the public business and as having great weight in the Senate.
[339] He is commemorated by Cicero (Brutus, c. 62) as a man well fitted for speaking in noisy assemblies. He was a tribune in the year of the consulship of Lucullus.
[340] This was L. Octavius, who was consul with C. Aurelius Cotta B.C. 75.