6. Notes.
The latter part of this chapter is somewhat obscure in the original.
See the note of Coraes.]
[Footnote 191: L. Marcius Philippus, Consul B.C. 91 with Sextus Julius
Caesar, was a distinguished orator.]
[Footnote 192: Some of the commentators have had strange opinions
about the meaning of this passage, which Kaltwasser has mistranslated.
It is rightly explained in Schaefer's note, and the learned Lambinus
has fully expounded it in a note on Horatius (_Od._ i. 13): but in
place of [Greek: adektos] he has a wrong reading [Greek: adekto] .
Flora was not the only courtesan who received the distinction
mentioned in the text. The gilded statue of Phryne, the work of
Praxiteles, was placed in the temple at Delphi, presented by the lady
herself. (Pausanias, x. 15).]
[Footnote 193: Pompeius Magnus was born B.C. 106. He was younger than
Marcus Crassus, of the same age as Cicero, and six years older than
the Dictator Caesar. The event mentioned in the chapter belongs to the
year B.C 87, in which his father fought against L. Cinna. Pompeius
Strabo died in this year.]
[Footnote 194: This town, now Ascoli on the Tronto, in Picenum, was
taken by Pompeius Strabo B.C. 89 in the Marsic war, and burnt. The
inhabitants, who had killed the proconsul P. Servilius and other
Romans, were severely handled; and Pompeius Strabo had a triumph
(December 89) for his success against the Asculani and other
inhabitants of Picenum.
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