Much fish was salted
and cured there; but I know not on what ground Kaltwasser concludes
that the word 'Malach' means Salt. It is sometimes asserted that the
name is from the Aramaic word Malek, 'King;' but W. Humboldt (_Pruefung
der Untersuchungen ueber die Urbewohner Hispaniens)_ says that it is a
Basque word.]
[Footnote 20: The son of Metellus Numidicus. See the Lives of Marius
and Sertorius. Sulla lauded in Italy B.C. 83. See the Life of Sulla,
c. 27.]
[Footnote 21: This is the town which the Romans called Tuder. It was
situated in Umbria on a hill near the Tiber, and is represented by the
modern Todi.]
[Footnote 22: See the Life of Sulla, c. 29.]
[Footnote 23: There is nothing peculiar in this. It is common enough
for a man to blame in others the faults that he has himself.]
[Footnote 24: See the Life of Caesar, c. 1. 2. and 11.]
[Footnote 25: M. Porcius Cato, whose Life Plutarch has written.]
[Footnote 26: Cn. Sicinius was Tribunus Plebis B.C. 76. He is
mentioned by Cicero (_Brutus,_ c. 60) as a man who had no other
oratorical qualification except that of making people laugh. The Roman
proverb to which Plutarch alludes occurs in Horatius, 1 Sat. 4. 34:--
"Foenum habet in cornu, longe fuge."
]
[Footnote 27: The insurrection of the gladiators commenced B.C. 73, in
the consulship of M. Terentius Varo Lucullus, the brother of Lucius
Lucullus, and of C.
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