he city. It was a flourishing
place when Strabo was writing his Geography.]

[Footnote 379: See the Life of Sulla, c. 14.]

[Footnote 380: See the Life of Sulla, c. 26. Tyrannio is often
mentioned by Cicero. He arranged Cicero's library (_Ad Attic._ iv. 4
and 8), and he was employed as a teacher in Cicero's house (_Ad Quint.
Frat._ ii. 4).

In alluding to Tyrannio being manumitted, Plutarch means to say that
by the act of manumission it was declared that Tyrannio had been made
a slave, and the act of manumission gave Murena the patronal rights
over him. This Murena was the son of the Murena who is mentioned in
Plutarch's Life of Sulla (c. 17). Cicero defended him against a charge
of Ambitus or bribery at his election for the consulship, and in his
oration, which is extant, he speaks highly of him. This Murena was
Consul B.C. 62, the year after Cicero was Consul.]

[Footnote 381: This passage is very obscure. Some critics think that
Plutarch is speaking of torture. But it is more likely that he is
speaking of the debtors being in attendance at the courts and waiting
under the open sky at all seasons till the suits about the debts were
settled.]

[Footnote 382: This is the Centesimae usurae of the Romans, which was at
this time the usual rate. It was one per cent. per month, or twelve
per cent. per annum. Caesar (Life of Caesar, c. 12) made a like
settlement between debtor and creditor in Spain.]

[Footnote 383: P. Appius Clodius or Claudius belonged to the Patrician
Gens of the Claudii. He was a clever, unprincipled fellow, and the
bitter enemy of Cicero, whom during his tribunate he caused to be
banished. There is more about him in the Life of Caesar, c. 10. He was
killed by T. Annius Milo.

This wife of Lucullus, named Clodia, had several sisters of the same
name, as usual among the Romans. (Life of Marius, c. 1.) The sister
who married Q. Metellus Celer, is accused of poisoning him.]

[Footnote 384: A name formed like Alexandreia from Antiochus, the name
by which most of the Greek kings of Syria were designated. Antiocheia,
now Antakia, was on the Orontes, the chief river of Syria, and near
the small place Daphne, which was much resorted to as a place of
pleasure by the people of Antiocheia. (Strabo, p. 749.)]

[Footnote 385: This was a country on the upper part of the Tigris. It
probably contains the same element as the modern Kurdistan.]

[Footnote 386: The Skenite Arabians are the nomadic Arabs who live