[246] Q. Cæcilius Metellus Creticus is stated by some modern writers to have been a son of Metellus Dalmaticus; but it is unknown who his father and grandfather were. (Drumann, Geschichte Roms.) He had been consul B.C. 69. (Compare Velleius Paterculus, ii. 32.)
[247] The passage is in the Iliad, xxii. 207.
[248] Or as Plutarch writes it Mallius. The tribune C. Manilius is meant, who carried the Lex Manilia, B.C. 66, which gave Pompeius the command in the Mithridatic war. Cicero supported the law in the speech which is extant, Pro Lege Manilia. It has been proposed to alter Mallius in Plutarch's text into Manilius, but Sintenis refers to Dion Cassius (36. c. 25, 26, 27).
[249] This was Glabrio the consul of B.C. 67 (see note on c. 25), who had been appointed to supersede Lucullus. (Life of Lucullus, c. 34, notes.)
[250] The allusion is to the secession of the Plebs to the Mons Sacer, which is recorded in Livius (2. c. 32).
[251] See the Life of Tib. Gracchus, c. 12, and the note.
[252] Pompeius was appointed to the command in the Mithridatic war B.C. 66, when he was in Cilicia. (Appianus, Mithridatic War, c. 97.)
[253] Compare the Life of Lucullus, c. 35, &c.
[254] As to the events in this chapter, compare Appianus, Mithridatic War, c. 98, &c.
[255] Probably a Greek woman, as we may infer from the name. The king seems to have had a liking for Greek women.