This paper deals with the reliability of evidence in Plutarch and authors of his period for events in earlier centuries, and specifically with the obstructions which attended Crassus's departure from Rome in 55 B.C. It shows that there is ample evidence for the report of dirae, but none for the arrest and cursing of Crassus as these appear in non-contemporary authors; these picturesque additions are due to confusion of the consuls Crassus Mucianus and Crassus Dives, and the tribunes Atinius and Ateius, and possibly to a confusion of Crassus Dives with Gabinius, his predecessor in Syria.
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