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fortunate. Having also wholly subdued Africa, and brought 

 it under obedience, he was brought back in a Triumphal 

 Chariot, with the name of Great, by reason of the Pillage 

 there captured, being then only a Roman Knight : a thing 

 that was never seen before. Immediately passing into the 

 West, and having brought under obedience 876 Towns, 

 between the Alps and the borders of Spain, he erected 

 Trophies on the Pyrenees, with the inscription of his Victory ; 

 and with more nobleness of Mind, said nothing concerning 

 Sertorius. And after the Civil War was put an end to 

 (which drew after it all Foreign matters), this Roman Knight 

 triumphed the second time : being so many times a General 

 (Imperator), before he was a Soldier (Miles). Afterward 

 he was sent out on an Expedition to all the Seas, and then 

 into the East parts : From whence he returned with more 

 Titles to his Country, after the manner of those who win 

 Victories at the Sacred Games. 1 Neither, indeed, are those 

 Crowned, but they Crown their Native Countries; and 

 so Pompey gave as a Tribute to the City these honours 

 which he dedicated to Minerva* out of (mojiubiis) his own 

 share of the Spoils, with an inscription in this manner : 

 CN. POMPEIUS the Great, Imperator, having finished the 

 War of Thirty Years: having discomfited, put to flight, slain, 

 received to submission, 2,183,000 Men : sunk or taken 846 

 Ships : brought under his authority Towns and Castles to the 

 number 0/1538 : subdued the Lands from the Lake Mceotis 

 to the Red Sea, hath dedicated of right this Vow to MINERVA. 

 This is the Summary of his Services in the East. But of the 

 Triumph which he led on the Third Day before the Calends 

 of October, when M. Messala and M. Piso were Consuls, 

 the Title ran thus : When he had freed the Sea-coast from 

 Pirates, had restored to the People of Rome the Sovereignty 

 of the Sea, he hath triumphed for Asia ; Pontus, Armenia, 

 Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Syria, the Scythians, Jews, 

 and the Albani ; the Island Iberia, Crete, the Bastarni ; 

 and above these, over the Kings Mithridates and Tigranes. 

 But the greatest Glory of all in him was this, (as himself 



1 Olympia, Nemsea, Pythia, Isthmia. 2 Or Victory. 



