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“For he put all Sertorius's writings and letters together and read not one of them, nor suffered anyone else to read them, but burnt them all, and caused Perpenna immediately to be put to death, lest by discovering their names, further troubles and revolutions might ensue.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation
In battles against Pompey and Metellus, Sertorius delays at Sucro for nighttime disadvantage to enemies, rallies wavering wings, escapes after losing his horse, and kills Afranius after his men loot without recognizing Pompey’s defeat.
so close to the fire which burnt down the city of his confederates as actually to feel the heat of it, he still had not dared to make any opposition. Sertorius, however, sustained many losses; but he always maintained himself and those immediately with him undefeated, and it was by other commanders under him that he suffered; and he was more admired for being able to repair his losses, and for recovering the victory…
A new biography begins: Eumenes of Cardia, said to be educated as scholar and soldier, enters Philip’s service, later serves Alexander as secretary, and gains favor through marriage ties.
to get up, Antonius threw himself upon his breast, and held both his hands, so that he died by a number of blows, without being able even to defend himself. Upon the first news of his death, most of the Spaniards left the conspirators, and sent ambassadors to Pompey and Metellus, and yielded themselves up to them. Perpenna attempted to do something with those that remained, but he made only so much use of Sertorius…
Pompey and Lucullus clash over authority in Galatia, trade accusations of avarice and ambition, and Pompey counteracts Lucullus’s settlements and orders while announcing a renewed war under Mithridates.
it anything else, well knowing that his enmity with Lucullus, setting a flame just now to his natural passion for glory and empire, made him feel more than usually gratified. As indeed appeared not long afterwards by his actions, which clearly unmasked him; for in the first place, he sent out his proclamations into all quarters, commanding the soldiers to join him, and summoned all the tributary kings and princes wi…
Pompey travels through Mitylene and Rhodes, rewarding philosophers and building plans for a Rome theater, but while in Greece his wife Mucia is divorced for adultery, and Pompey returns amid rumors of possible tyranny.
to Faustus, the son of Sylla, at his request. All which Pompey was ignorant of, but afterwards, when Pharnaces came to understand it, he severely punished those that embezzled them. Pompey now having ordered all things, and established that province, took his journey homewards in greater pomp and with more festivity. For when he came to Mitylene, he gave the city their freedom upon the intercession of Theophanes, a…
Plutarch describes Caesar’s decision to overthrow Pompey, the political corruption in Rome, Cato’s role in granting Pompey a legal consulship, and the start of escalating maneuvers as Caesar positions himself for confrontation.
as he was sitting, then quitted his horse, threw off his armor, and remained seated quietly at Caesar's feet until he was led away to be reserved for the triumph. Caesar had long ago resolved upon the overthrow of Pompey, as had Pompey, for that matter, upon his. For Crassus, the fear of whom had hitherto kept them in peace, having now been killed in Parthia, if the one of them wished to make himself the greatest m…
This passage notes, via a Juvenal reference, that Pompey’s fate became an example of how human wishes and efforts are overturned by Fortune and even lead to the loss of a defeated leader’s head.
[30] The fate of Pompey served also as an instance to Juvenal in his satire on the vanity of human wishes. Provida Pompeio diderat Campania febres Optandas, sed multæ urbes et publica vota Vicerunt; igitur Fortuna ipsius et urbis Servatum victo caput abstulit. Sat. X. 283, &c. [31] Spartacus was the celebrated leader of the slaves in the Servile War.
Suetonius narrates Augustus’s Sicilian war delays, his defeat of Pompey, disputes over his sleep and storm-losses, and later the final conflict with Antony culminating in the siege of Alexandria and Antony’s suicide.
The children which Antony had by Cleopatra he saved, and brought up and cherished in a manner suitable to their rank, just as if they had been his own relations. XVIII. At this time he had a desire to see the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great, which, for that purpose, were taken out of the cell in which they rested [128]; and after viewing them for some time, he paid honours to the memory of that prince, …