[1111] King of Pergamus.
[1112] Over King Antiochus.
[1113] He alludes to the destruction of Corinth, by L. Mummius Achaïcus.
[1114] A drinking cup with handles, sacred to Bacchus. See B. xxxiv. c. [25].
[1115] Bacchus.
[1116] In allusion to the plebeian origin of C. Marius, who was born at the village of Cereatæ, near Arpinum. It is more than probable that the story that he had worked as a common peasant for wages, was an invention of the faction of Sylla.
[1117] “Ille arator Arpinas, et manipularis imperator.”
[1118] Meaning the first king of that name. He was son of Mithridates IV., king of Pontus.
[1119] Appian says that there “was a gold statue of this Mithridates, exhibited in the triumph of Pompey, eight cubits in height.” Plutarch speaks of another statue of the same king, exhibited by Lucullus, six feet in height.