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cellus'' who fought thirty-nine — for I would not myself 

 count it to his glory that in addition to conquering 

 his fellow-citizens he killed in his battles 1,192,000 

 human beings, a prodigious even if unavoidable 

 wrong inflicted on the human race, as he himself 

 confessed it to be by not pubUshing the casualties 

 of the civil wars. 



It would be more just to credit Pompey the Great 

 with the 846 ships that he captured from the pirates ; 

 while to Caesar let us assign, in addition to the facts 

 mentioned above, the pecuhar distinction of the 

 clemencv in which (even to the point of subsequent 

 regret) he surpassed all men ; also he afforded an 

 example of magnanimity that no other can parallel. 

 For while to count under this head the shows that he 

 gave and the wealth that he squandered, or the 

 magnificence of his pubhc works, would display 

 indulgence to luxury, it showed the genuine and 

 unrivalled subUmity of an unconquered spirit that, 

 when Pompey the Great's despatch cases wcre 

 captured at PharsaUa and again those of Scipio at 

 Thapsus, he scrupulously burnt thern and did not 

 read them. 



XXVI. But it concerns the glory of the Roman .ichierements 

 Empire, and not that of one man, to mention in this nanimityoj 

 place aU the records of the victories of Pompey the ^'ompf^y- 

 Great and aU his triumphs, which equal the briUiance of 

 the exploits not only of Alexander the Great but even 

 almost of Hercules and Father Liber. WeU then, 

 after the recovery of Sicily, which inaugurated his 

 emergence as a champion of the commonweaUh 

 in the party of SuUa, and after the conquest of 

 the whole of Africa and its reduction under our 

 sway, and the acquirement as a trophy therefrom of 



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