I have
translated Plutarch literally, though I have no doubt that the
occasion to which he alludes (which is not mentioned by Cicero, l.c.)
is that of the election to the praetorship, B.C. 55, when the worthless
adventurer Vatinius was preferred to Cato. M. Cato in petitione
praeturae, praelato Vatinio, repulsam tulit. Liv. Epit. cv. See also Val.
Max. vii. 5, and Merivale's 'History of the Romans,' vol. i. ch. ix.
The word [Greek: hupateia] is always used by Plutarch as the Greek
equivalent for the Roman title of consul.]
[Footnote 623: This saying of his is mentioned in the 'Life of
Demosthenes," c. 10.]
[Footnote 624: He was elected no less than forty-five times to the
annual office of Strategus or General of the city--that is, one of the
Board of Ten so denominated, the greatest executive function at
Athens.--Grote, 'Hist. of Greece,' Part ii. ch. lxxxvii.]
[Footnote 625: Meaning, why do you affect to be a Spartan, and yet
speak like an Athenian? See vol. iii. 'Life of Kleomenes,' ch. ix.]
[Footnote 626: Grote observes, in commenting on this passage, that
"Plutarch has no clear idea of the different contests carried on in
Euboea. He passes on, without a note of transition, from this war in
the island (in 349-348 B.C.) to the subsequent war in 341 B.C. Nothing
indeed can be more obscure and difficult to disentangle than the
sequence of Euboean transactions.
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