ng. In
these same gardens Messalina was put to death. (Tacitus, _Ann._ xi. 1.
37.)]

[Footnote 430: There is the tunnel near Naples, called Posilipo, which
is a Roman work, and is described by Strabo (p. 246); but its date is
unknown.]

[Footnote 431: Tubero the Stoic was Q. AElius Tubero, who was Tribune
of the Plebs B.C. 133 and opposed Tiberius Gracchus. He was also an
opponent of Caius (Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 31, and Meyer's notes). But
this cannot be the contemporary of Lucullus, and Plutarch either means
Q. AElius Tubero the historian, or he has mistaken the period of Tubero
the Stoic. Ruhnken proposes to read in the text of Plutarch
"historian" for "stoic," but it is better to suppose that Plutarch was
mistaken, about the age of the Stoic. The ownership of good sayings is
seldom undisputed. Velleius Paterculus (ii. 83) attributes this to
Pompeius Magnus. The allusion is to Xerxes the Persian, who dug a
canal through the flat isthmus which connects the rocky peninsula of
Athos with the mainland (Herodotus, vii. 22), which still exists.]

[Footnote 432: There is some corruption in the text; but the general
meaning is clear enough.]

[Footnote 433: This is the story which Q. Horatius Flaccus tells in
his Epistolae, Lib. i. Ep. 6.]

[Footnote 434: This is one of many like indications in Plutarch of his
good opinion of his countrymen. Compare the life of Crassus, c. 8,
where he is speaking of Spartacus.]

[Footnote 435: Plutarch's allusion would be intelligible to a Greek,
but hardly so to a Roman, unless he was an educated man. A prytaneum
in a Greek city was a building belonging to the community, on the
altar of which was kept the ever-burning fire. In the prytaneum of
Athens, entertainments were given both to foreign ambassadors and to
citizens who had merited the distinction of dining in the prytaneum, a
privilege that was given sometimes for life, and sometimes for a
limited period. As the town-hall of any community is in a manner the
common home of the citizens, so Plutarch compares the house of
Lucullus, which was open to all strangers, with the public hall of a
man's own city.]

[Footnote 436: Plato established his school in the Academia, a grove
near Athens; whence the name of the place, Academia, was used to
signify the opinions of the school of Plato and of those schools which
were derived from his. Speusippus, the nephew of Plato, was his
successor in the Academy, and he was followed by Xenokrates,