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Πομπήϊος

Πομπήϊος Plutarch
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1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 2.2 2.3 – 2.5 2.6 – 3.2 3.3 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.4 4.5 – 5.2 6.1 – 6.3 6.4 – 7.2 7.3 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 10.1 – 10.3 10.4 – 10.6 10.7 – 11.2 11.3 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.5 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 13.7 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.5 14.6 – 15.2 15.3 – 16.2 16.3 – 16.6 17.1 – 17.4 18.1 – 18.2 18.3 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 19.6 – 20.1 20.2 – 20.3 20.4 – 21.2 21.3 – 21.5 22.1 – 22.3 22.4 – 22.6 23.1 – 23.3 23.4 – 24.2 24.3 – 24.5 24.6 – 24.8 25.1 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.6 25.7 – 26.2 26.3 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.4 28.1 – 28.3 28.4 – 29.2 29.3 – 29.5 30.1 – 30.2 30.3 – 30.4 30.5 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.4 31.5 – 31.7 32.1 – 32.3 32.4 – 32.5 32.6 – 32.8 32.9 – 33.2 33.3 – 33.5 33.6 – 34.2 34.3 – 35.1 35.2 – 36.1 36.2 – 36.4 36.5 – 37.1 37.2 – 38.1 38.2 – 38.3 39.1 – 39.3 39.4 – 40.2 40.3 – 40.5 41.1 – 41.3 41.4 – 42.2 42.3 – 42.5 42.6 – 43.1 43.2 – 44.1 44.2 – 44.4 45.1 – 45.3 45.4 – 46.1 46.2 – 46.3 46.4 – 46.5 47.1 – 47.3 47.4 – 47.6 48.1 – 48.3 48.4 – 48.6 48.7 – 49.2 49.3 – 49.4 49.5 – 49.6 49.7 – 51.1 51.2 – 51.4 51.5 – 52.1 52.2 – 52.4 53.1 – 53.3 53.4 – 53.6 53.7 – 54.1 54.2 – 54.3 54.4 – 54.5 54.6 – 55.2 55.3 – 55.5 55.6 – 56.1 56.2 – 57.1 57.2 – 57.4 57.5 – 58.2 58.3 – 58.5 58.6 – 59.2 59.3 – 60.1 60.2 – 60.4 60.5 – 61.2 61.3 – 62.1 62.2 – 62.3 62.4 – 63.1 63.2 – 64.2 64.3 – 64.4 65.1 – 65.3 65.4 – 66.1 66.2 – 66.4 66.5 – 67.1 67.2 – 67.3 67.4 – 67.6 68.1 – 68.3 68.4 – 69.1 69.2 – 69.3 69.4 – 69.5 70.1 – 70.3 70.4 – 71.2 71.3 – 71.4 71.5 – 72.1 72.2 – 72.4 73.1 – 73.3 73.4 – 73.6 73.7 – 74.2 74.3 – 75.2 75.3 – 76.1 76.2 – 76.4 76.5 – 76.6 77.1 – 77.3 77.4 – 78.2 78.3 – 79.1 79.2 – 79.4 80.1 – 80.3 80.4 – 80.6
30.5 But still the law was passed by all the tribes, as we are told, and Pompey, in his absence, was proclaimed master of almost all the powers which Sulla had exercised after subduing the city in armed warfare. Pompey himself, however, on receiving his letters and learning what had been decreed, while his friends surrounded him with their congratulations, frowned, we are told, smote his thigh, and said, in the tone of one who was already oppressed and burdened with command: Alas for my endless tasks!
30.6 How much better it were to be an unknown man, if I am never to cease from military service, and cannot lay aside this load of envy and spend my time in the country with my wife! As he said this, even his intimate friends could not abide his dissimulation; they knew that his enmity towards Lucullus gave fuel to his innate ambition and love of power, and made him all the more delighted.
31.1 And certainly his actions soon unmasked him. For he sent out edicts in all directions calling the soldiers to his standard, and summoned the subject potentates and kings into his presence. Moreover, as he traversed the country, he left nothing undisturbed that Lucullus had done, but remitted punishments in many cases, and took away rewards, and did everything, in a word, with an eager desire to show the admirers of that general that he was wholly without power.

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