Inglorious foe, whose only weapon is a sharpened tongue;1such men as these Mithridates would not have deigned to compare with his groom, nor Marius with his lictor.
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In Sulla's case, at any rate, it is no easy matter even to enumerate the pitched battles which he won and the myriads of enemies whom he slew; Rome itself he captured twice, and he took the Piraeus of Athens, not by famine, as Lysander did, but by a series of great battles, after he had driven Archelaüs from the land to the sea. It is important, too, that we consider the character of their antagonists. For I think it was the merest child's play to win a sea-fight against Antiochius, Alcibiades' pilot, or to outwit Philocles, the Athenian demagogue,
1 An iambic trimeter of unknown authorship (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 921).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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