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 countries, and you were kept from becoming lords of them all; these men, making an ill use of the opportunity given them by his being occupied, ventured upon many impious projects, so that you came to require his aid. Therefore abandoning the victories within his grasp he quickly brought you assistance, freed all Italy from the dangers in which it had become involved, and furthermore won back Spain which had been estranged.

Then he saw Pompey, who had abandoned his fatherland and was setting up a kingdom of his own in Macedonia, transferring thither all your possessions, equipping your subjects against you, and using against you money of your own. So at first he wished to persuade Pompey somehow to stop and change his course and receive, the greatest pledges that he should again attain a fair and equal position with him; and he found himself unable in any way to effect this, for Pompey burst all restraints, even the relationship that existed between himself and Cæsar, and chose to fight against you; then at last he was compelled to begin a civil war. And what need is there of telling how daringly he sailed against him in spite of the winter, or how boldly he assailed him, tho Pompey held all the strong positions there, or how bravely he vanquished him, tho much inferior in number of soldiers ? If a man wished to examine each feature in detail, he might show the renowned Pompey to have