(Velleius, ii. 21.)]
[Footnote 195: P. Antistius was praetor B.C. 86, the year after the
death of Pompeius Strabo.]
[Footnote 196: Compare the Life of Romulus, c. 14.]
[Footnote 197: Cinna was killed in his fourth consulate, B.C. 84.
Appianus (_Civil Wars_, i. 78) states that he was massacred by his
soldiers, but his account may be true and that of Plutarch also, which
is more particular, (See also Livius, _Epit._ 83.)]
[Footnote 198: The father of Pompeius had enriched himself during the
Social wars.]
[Footnote 199: Now Osimo, was one of the cities of Picenum, south of
Ancona. It was a Roman colony.]
[Footnote 200: The three commanders were C. Albius Carinnas, C. Coelius
Caldus and M. Junius Brutus. The word Cloelius in Plutarch may be a
mistake of the copyists. Brutus was the father of M. Brutus, one of
Caesar's assassins.]
[Footnote 201: L. Cornelius Scipio, consul B.C. 83. Plutarch speaks of
the same event in the Life of Sulla, c. 28, where he states that the
soldiers of Scipio came over to Sulla. The two statements are
contradictory, Appianus (_Civil Wars_, i. 85) tells the story of
Scipio's army going over to Sulla.]
[Footnote 202: A mistake for AEsis (Esino, or Finmesino), a river which
formed the boundary between Umbria and Picenum, and enters the sea
north of Ancona. Appianus (_Civil Wars_, i. 87) states that Metellus
defeated Carinnas, the legatus of Carbo, on the AEsis (B.
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