[Footnote 671:  Nomenclators, literally, “persons who called or addressed others by name,” were slaves and sometimes perhaps other persons, whose business it was to know every man’s name, to attend a candidate in his canvass, and to inform him of the names of those whom he was going to address, in order that he might appear to be acquainted with them; for in accordance with a feeling, which all men have in some degree, a desire to be known, a voter was pleased to find himself addressed by a candidate as if his face and name were familiar.  This kind of notice from people who are above another in rank and station is peculiarly gratifying to those who are conscious that they have no real merit, and the pleasure which such attention gives to those who receive it is the exact measure of their own real opinion of their insignificance.  I say their real opinion, for such persons have a true opinion of themselves, though they attempt to conceal it from themselves, and also to conceal it from others, in neither of which attempts are they quite successful.  It makes no difference if a man knows that the great man who affects to know him really does not know him, for he knows that the great man does not know everybody and cares for very few; but the mere pretence of knowing, the mere show of knowing and recognising, which the great man assumes, he is willing to take for what he knows that it is not, a mark of respect; and mainly, that others, as he hopes, may be deceived by the false appearance, and take him to be what he knows that he is not.

Cato’s tribuneship was a military tribuneship (tribunus militum).]

[Footnote 672:  He was a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, and at the time of Cato’s visit to him he had the care of the library at Pergamus.  Strabo (p. 674, ed.  Casaub.) says that he died in Cato’s house at Rome.]

[Footnote 673:  AEnus was a small town at the mouth of the river Hebrus, now the Maritza.  The island of Thasos, now Thaso, contains marble.  The monument was a costly memorial, if the Attic talent was meant, which we must presume.  Talents of silver are of course intended.]

[Footnote 674:  The allusion is to the Anticato of Caesar (Life of Caesar, c. 54).  How the matter really was, no one can tell; but such a story is not likely to be a pure invention.]

[Footnote 675:  He is mentioned as being an old man in B.C. 54 (Life of Crassus c. 17).  Deiotarus was a friend of the Romans in their Asiatic wars against Mithridates, and the senate conferred on him the title of king.  He knew what kind of people he had to deal with when he showed such attention to Cato’s train (c. 15).  His history is closely connected with that of Caesar, and of Cicero, who made a speech in his defence before Caesar at Rome B.C. 45 (Pro Rege Deiotaro).]

[Footnote 676:  The story about Demetrius, the contemptible favourite of Pompeius, is told by Plutarch in his Life of Pompeius, c. 40.  Plutarch makes the visit to Asia precede Cato’s quaestorship, upon which see the remarks of Drumann, Geschichte Roms, v. 157.  The narration of Plutarch is evidently confused as will appear from the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters.]