1, 74.) The words of
Sulla are also reported by Suetonius (c. 1).]
[Footnote 440: Nicomedes III. Caesar was sent to him by Thermus to get
ships for the siege of Mitylene. Suetonius, a lover of scandal, has
preserved a grievous imputation against Caesar, which is connected with
this visit to Nicomedes (_Caesar_, c. 2, 49). Caesar in a speech for the
Bithynians (Gellius, v. 13) calls Nicomedes his friend. He felt the
reproach keenly, and tried to clear himself (Dion Cassius, 43, c. 20).
But it is easier to make such charges than to confute them.
M. Minucius Thermus, Propraetor. Caesar served his first campaign under
him at the siege and capture of Mitylene B.C. 80. Caesar gained a civic
crown. See the note in Burmaun's edition of Suetonius.]
[Footnote 441: This island was near Miletus. Stephan. Byzant., [Greek:
Pharmakoussa].]
[Footnote 442: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 26. Caesar served a short
time against the Cilician pirates under P. Servilius Isauricus
(Sueton. _Caesar_, 2) B.C. 77, or perhaps later.]
[Footnote 443: He was now in Bithynia according to Vell. Paterculus
(ii. 42). This affair of the pirates happened according to Drumann in
B.C. 76. Plutarch places it five years earlier.]
[Footnote 444: Plutarch should probably have called him only Molo. He
was a native of Alabanda in Caria. Cicero often mentions his old
master, but always by the name of Molo only.
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