death of Flaccus, Carbo
was elected in his place.]

[Footnote 140: One MS. has Licinius, which is the right name. Licinius
was a Senator. (Livius, _Epit_. lib. 80: Dion, _Frag_. 120.)]

[Footnote 141: The same person who is mentioned above (c. 1). He was
of Rhodes and a Stoic. Poseidonius was one of Cicero's teachers, and
survived Cicero's consulship, as we see from a letter of Cicero (_Ad
Attic_. ii. 1), which also shows that he knew how to flatter his old
pupil's vanity. Cicero (_De Natura Deorum_, ii. 38) speaks of a Sphere
of Poseidonius which represented certain phenomena of the sun's and
moon's motions and those of the five stars (planets). Nothing is known
about this embassy.]

[Footnote 142: It is not known who is meant. (See Krause, _Fragment.
Historicorum Romanorun_, p. 139.)]

[Footnote 143: See the note, Sulla (c. 6).]

[Footnote 144: He was a Stoic and the master of Panaetius. His age is
determined approximatively by the facts mentioned in the Life of
Tiberius Gracchus (c. 5). (See "Antipater of Tarsus," in _Biog. Dict._
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.)]

[Footnote 145: See Life of Sulla (c. 28-32). Marius was consul with
Cn. Papirius Carbo, B.C. 82. Appian (_Civil Wars_, i. 87) says that
this Marius was the nephew of the distinguished Marius. There seems to
be some confusion about this younger Marius. (See c. 35.)]

LIFE OF LYSANDER

I. The treasury of the Akanthians at Delphi has upon it the following
inscription: "The spoils which Brasidas and the Akanthians took from
the Athenians." For this reason many suppose that the stone statue
which stands inside the treasure-chamber, just by the door, is that of
Brasidas; but it is really a copy of a statue of Lysander, wearing his
hair and beard long, in the ancient fashion. For it is not true, as
some say, that when the Argives after their great defeat shaved their
hair in sign of mourning, the Spartans on the other hand, in pride at
their victory let their hair grow long; nor was it because the
Bacchiadae, when they fled from Corinth to Sparta had their hair cut
short, and looked mean and despicable that made the Spartans,
themselves eager to let their hair grow long; but the fashion was
enjoined by Lykurgus. It is recorded that he said of this mode of
wearing the hair, that it made handsome men look handsomer, and made
ugly men look more ferocious.

II. Aristokleitus, the father of Lysander, is said to have been a
des