It is
situated in 36 deg. 12' N. lat. on the south bank of the Orontes, a river
which enters the sea south of the Gulf of Scanderoon.]
[Footnote 291: The meaning of the original is obscure. The word is
[Greek: to imation], which ought to signify his vest or toga. Some
critics take it to mean a kind of handkerchief used by sick persons
and those of effeminate habits; and they say it was also used by
persons when travelling, as a cover for the head, which the Greeks
called Theristerium. The same word is used in the passage (c. 7),
where it is said that "Sulla used to rise from his seat as Pompeius
approached and take his vest from his head." Whatever may be the
meaning of the word here, Plutarch seems to say that this impudent
fellow would take his seat at the table before the guests had arrived
and leave his master to receive them.]
[Footnote 292: Drumann (_Geschichte Roms_, Pompeii, p. 53) observes
that "Plutarch does not say that Pompeius built his house near his
theatre, but that he built it in addition to his theatre and at the
same time, as Donatus had perceived, De Urbe Roma, 3, 8, in Graev.
Thes. T. 3, p. 695." But Drumann is probably mistaken. There is no
great propriety in the word [Greek: epholkion] unless the house was
near the theatre, and the word [Greek: paretektenato] rather implies
'proximity,' than 'in addition to.'
This was the first permanent theatre that Rome had.
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