his own changed fortune.
(Plutarch, "Marius", 40.)
(3) In the "gathering of fresh fury on Libyan soil", there
appears to be an allusion to the story of Antruns, in Book
IV.
(4) See Ben Jonson's "Catiline", Act i., scene 1, speaking of
the Sullan massacre.
Cethegus: Not infants in the porch of life were free.
....
Catiline: 'Twas crime enough that they had lives: to
strike but only those that could do hurt was dull and
poor: some fell to make the number as some the prey.
(5) Whenever he did not salute a man, or return his salute, this
was a signal for massacre. (Plutarch, "Marius", 49.)
(6) The Marian massacre was in B.C. 87-86; the Sullan in 82-81.
(7) The head of Antonius was struck off and brought to Marius at
supper. He was the grandfather of the triumvir.
(8) Scaevola, it would appear, was put to death after Marius the
elder died, by the younger Marius. He was Pontifex Maximus,
and slain by the altar of Vesta.
(9) B.C. 86, Marius and Cinna were Consuls. Marius died
seventeen days afterwards, in the seventieth year of his
age.
(10) The Battle of Sacriportus was fought between Marius the
younger and the Sullan army in B.C. 82. Marius was defeated
with great loss, and fled to Praeneste, a town which
afterwards submitted to Sulla, who put all the inhabitants
to death (line 216). At the Colline gate was fought the
decisive battle between Sulla and the Saranires, who, after
a furious contest, were defeated.
(11) Diomedes was said to feed his horses on human flesh. (For
Antaeus see Book IV., 660.) Enomaus was king of Pisa in
Elis. Those who came to sue for his daughter's hand had to
compete with him in a chariot race, and if defeated were put
to death.
(12) The brother of the Consul.
(13) So Cicero: "Our Cnaeus is wonderfully anxious for such a
royalty as Sulla's. I who tell you know it." ("Ep. ad
Att.", ix. 7.)
(14) Marcia was first married to Cato, and bore him three sons;
he then yielded her to Hortensius. On his death she
returned to Cato. (Plutarch, "Cato", 25, 52.) It was in
reference to this that Caesar charged him with making a
traffic of his marriage; but Plutarch says "to accuse Cato
of filthy lucre is like upbraiding Hercules with cowardice."
After the marriage Marcia remained at Rome while Cato