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 014 APPENDIX. by Tacitus and Pliny. (Tack. Hist. IV. 40; Agricola, 45; Flin. Ep. IV. 22.) He was exiled under Domitian. He appears {Plin. Ep. I. 5) to have been the brother of Arulenus Rusticus, Plutarch's auditor at Rome, for whom see the Life of Plutarch, Vol. I., p. ix. x. Page 491. — The line from Hesiod is 366 in the Works and Days. Life of Otho, page 501. — Mestrius Florus is also mentioned as a consu/ar by Suetonius {Vespasian, 22). Vespasian made a witty retort to him. The lives of Galba and Otho recall us to that of Plutarch himself. There can be little question that they are his genuine work ; any difference in tone may be easily accounted for by difference in subject, and we feel perhaps the effects of his having been studying Tacitus. The visit to Bedriacum may ac- cordingly be added to the brief sum of Plutarch's recorded Italian experiences. Among the notable people with whom he came into connection should have been mentioned, perhaps, Dio Chrysostom, the eloquent speaker, to whom in the catalogue of his writings he is said to have dedicated one of his minor works, and king Philopappus, so well known by the monument to him remaining on the Museum Hill at Athens ; who appears as resident in Athens at the time of one of the scenes in the Symposiac Questions. There were, apparently, lives of both the Scipios ; and the elder perhaps, not the younger (as stated in Vol. I., p. 1), was compared with Epaminondas. The most complete summary of all the notices of Plutarch's life and circum- stances to be found both in his own works and elsewhere is in the preface by Westermann to the edition of the Greek text by Bekker, published by Bern- hard Tauchnitz. This I had not seen until after the Preface in Vol. I. had been printed.