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Domitius Ahenobarbus, too, by calling him Agamemnon, and King of Kings, made him odious. And Favonius was no less displeasing to him than those who used a bolder speech, when he bawled out his untimely jest:
‘O men, this year, also, shall we eat no figs of Tusculum?’ And Lucius Afranius, who lay under a charge of treachery for having lost his forces in Spain,1 on seeing Pompey now avoiding a battle with Caesar, said he was astonished that his accusers did not go forth and fight this trafficker in provinces.
1 He was accused of taking a bribe from Caesar for the surrender of the Spains (see the Caesar, xli. 2).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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