]
[Footnote 430: The capital of Macedonia, Alexander's native city.]
[Footnote 431: [Greek: chous] a liquid measure containing 12 [Greek:
kotulai] of 5.46 pints apiece.]
[Footnote 432: The Greek word hero means a semi-divine personage, who
was worshipped, though with less elaborate ritual than a god.]
[Footnote 433: L2,300,000. Grote, following Diodorus, raises the total
even higher, to twelve thousand talents, or L2,760,000. "History of
Greece," part ii. ch. xciv.]
[Footnote 434: The Greek text here is corrupt. I have endeavoured to
give what appears to have been Plutarch's meaning.]
LIFE OF C. CAESAR.
I.[435] When Sulla got possession of the supreme power, he confiscated
the marriage portion of Cornelia[436] the daughter of Cinna[437] who
had once enjoyed the supremacy in Rome, because he could not either by
promises or threats induce Caesar to part with her. The cause of the
enmity between Caesar and Sulla was Caesar's relationship to Marius; for
the elder Marius was the husband of Julia the sister of Caesar's
father, and Julia was the mother of the younger Marius, who was
consequently Caesar's cousin. Caesar was not content with being let
alone by Sulla, who was at first fully occupied with the
proscriptions and other matters, but he presented himself to the
people as a candidate for a priesthood,[438] though he had hardly
arrived at man's estate.
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