" (Plutarch,
"Marius", 38.)
(2) The Governor of Libya sent an officer to Marius, who had
landed in the neighbourhood of Carthage. The officer
delivered his message, and Marius replied, "Tell the
Governor you have seen Caius Marius, a fugitive sitting on
the ruins of Carthage," a reply in which he not inaptly
compared the fate of that city and 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.
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