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He meant that it was hard for him to be reduced to say such a thing; as to doing it, when he had said it, that would be a light matter. Sintenis suspects that the text is not quite right here. The naval victory of Salamis justified his advice. "cur apricum Oderit campum patiens pulveris atque solis? sæpe disco Sæpe trans finem jaculo nobilis expedito." Horatius, Od. i. 8.
The remains of Artaxata, if they exist, must be looked for on some of the numerous positions which are nearly surrounded by the river. See the note of Sintenis. The Mygdonius is a branch of the Chaborras, which flows into the Euphrates. Two tall columns of marble and the church of St.
Cassius, as an Epicurean, would have no faith in any superhuman powers; but in the moments of danger a man's speculative principles give way to the common feelings of all mankind. See the note of Sintenis. Probably the story of Cæsar's death received many embellishments. See the notes in Burmann's edition of Suetonius.
Sintenis found in Mark Twain a "living symptom of the youthful joy in existence" a genius capable at will, despite his "boyish extravagance," of the virile formulation of fertile and suggestive ideas.
Cæsar let his men plunder Gomphi. The town had offered him all its means and prayed him for a garrison, but on hearing of his loss at Dyrrachinm the people shut their gates against him and sent to Pompeius for aid. We must look to the Life of Pompeius, c. 68, for the complete dream. Perhaps something has dropped out of the text here. The name is Q. Cornificus. See the note of Sintenis.
According to measurements of Dr. Dr. Sintenis, the botanist, who last year traveled through Asia Minor and Greece, tells me that he saw beautiful specimens of the plant in many places, e.g., in Assos, in the neighborhood of the Dardanelles, under the cypresses of the Turkish cemeteries.
See the Life of Cato the Censor by Plutarch, c. 24. 97. But Sintenis supposes that Plutarch may have misunderstood the Roman expression "avunculus maternus." Cato's father had by his wife Livia a daughter Porcia, who married J. Domitius Ahenobarbus. The meaning of Plutarch is perhaps not quite clear. It is described by Virgil, Æneid, v. 553, &c.
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