He calls the rhetorician,
who was the master of Q. Mucius Scaevola, consul B.C. 117. Apollonius,
who was also a native of Alabanda.]
[Footnote 445: See c. 54.]
[Footnote 446: See the first chapter of the Life of Lucullus.]
[Footnote 447: Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, consul B.C. 81, afterwards was
governor of Macedonia as proconsul, in which office he was charged
with maladministration. Cicero (_Brutus_, c. 71, 92) mentions this
trial. Drumann places it in B.C. 77. Cicero (_Brutus_, c. 72) gives
his opinion of the eloquence of Caesar. (Suetonius, _Caesar_, 4; Vell.
Paterculus, ii. 42.)]
[Footnote 448: His name was Caius. He was consul B.C. 63 with Cicero.
The trial, which was in B.C. 76, of course related to misconduct prior
to that date. The trial was not held in Greece. M. Lucullus was the
brother of L. Lucullus, and was Praetor in Rome at the time of the
trial.]
[Footnote 449: Some amplification is necessary here in order to
preserve Plutarch's metaphor. He was fond of such poetical turns.
Nec poterat quemquam placidi pellacia ponti
Subdola pellicere in fraudem ridentibus undis.
_Lucretius_, v. 1002.]
[Footnote 450: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 48.]
[Footnote 451: The military tribunes, it appears, were now elected by
the people, or part of them at least. Comp. Liv. 43, c. 14.]
[Footnote 452: His aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia died during his
quaestorship, probably B.
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