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the title of The Great, he rode back in a triuraphal 

 chariot though only of equestrian rank, a thing which 

 had never occurred before ; and imniediately after- 

 wards he crossed over to the Wcst, and after erecting 

 trophies in the Pyrenees he added to the record of 

 his victorious career the reduction under our sway of 

 876 toA\-ns from the Alps to the frontiers of Further 

 Spain, and with greater magnanimity refrained 

 from mentioning Sertorius, and after crushing the 

 civil war " which tlu'eatened to stir up all our foreign 

 relations, a second time led into Rome a procession 

 of triiunphal chariots as a Knight, having twice 

 been commander-in-chief before having ever served 

 in the ranks. Subsequently he was despatched to 

 the whole of tlie seas and then to the far east, and 

 he brought back titles without hmit for his counti-y, 

 after the manner of those who conquer in the sacred 

 contests * — for these are not crowned with ^vreaths 

 themsehes but crown their native land; conse- 

 quently he bestowed these honours on the city in 

 the shrine of Minerva that he was dedicating out of 

 the proceeds of the spoils of war : 



Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Commander in Chief, 

 having completed a thirty years' rvar, rouied, scattered, 

 slain or received the surrendcr of 12,183,000 people, 

 sunk or iaken 816 ships, receivcd the capitulation of 

 1538 toivns and forts, subdued the lands from the 

 Maeotians <^ to the Red Sea, duly dedicaies his ojfering 

 voived to Minerva. 



This is his summary of his exploits in the east. But 

 the announcement of the triumphal procession that 

 he led on September 28 in the consulship <^ of Marcus 

 Piso and Marcus Messala was as follows : 



After having rescued ihe sea coast from pirates and 



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