There might be some doubt about the meaning of the words
'many corpses of members of the royal family' [Greek: polla somata ton
basilikon] but Plutarch appears from the context to mean dead bodies.
Two of the daughters of Mithridates who were with him when he died,
are mentioned by Appianus (c. 111) as having taken poison at the same
time with their father. The poison worked on them, but had no effect
on the old man, who therefore prevailed on a Gallic officer who was in
his service to kill him. (Compare Dion Cassius, 39. c. 13, 14.)]
[Footnote 299: He made it what the Romans called Libera Civitas, a
city which had its own jurisdiction and was free from taxes. Compare
the Life of Caesar, c. 48.]
[Footnote 300: He was a native of Apamea in Syria, a Stoic, and a
pupil of Panaetius. He was one of the masters of Cicero, who often
speaks of him and occasionally corresponded with him (Cicero, _Ad
Attic._ ii. 1). Cicero also mentions Hermagoras in his treatise De
Inventione (i. 6, and 9), and in the Brutus (c. 79).]
[Footnote 301: See the Life of Sulla, c. 6.]
[Footnote 302: She was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, consul B.C.
95, and the third wife of Pompeius, who had three children by her. She
was not the sister of Q. Metellus Nepos and Q. Metellus Celer, as
Kaltwasser says, but a kinswoman. Cn. Pompeius and Sextus Pompeius
were the sons of Mucia. Cicero (_Ad Attic.
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