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magnanimously said not a word about Sertorius.''^ After 
having put an end to the civil war, which indeed was the 
primary cause of all the foreign ones, he, though still of only 
equestrian rank, again entered Eome in the triumphal chariot, 
having proved himself a general thus often before having been 
a soldier.'^ After this, he was dispatched to the shores of all 
the various seas, and then to the East, whence he brought back 
to his country the following titles of honour, resembling therein 
those who conquer at the sacred games — for, be it remem- 
bered, it is not they that are crowned, but their respective 
countries^^ These honours then did he award to the City, 
in the temple of Minerva,"* which he consecrated from the 
spoils that he had gained : Cneius Pompeius Magnus, Im- 
perator, having brought to an end a war of thirty years' dura- 
tion, and having defeated, routed, put to the sword, or re- 
ceived the submission of, twelve millions two hundred and 
seventy-eight thousand men, having sunk or captured eight 
hundred and forty- six vessels, having received as allies one 
thousand five hundred and thirty-eight cities and fortresses, 
and having conquered all the country from the Mseotis to the 
Eed Sea, dedicates this shrine as a votive offering due to 
Minerva/' Such, in few words, is the sum of his exploits in 
the East. The following are the introductory words descrip- 
tive of tbe triumph which he obtained, the third day before 
the calends'^ of October,'^ in the consulship of M. Piso and 
"1 Sertorius had joined the party of Marius and Cinna, in opposition to 
that of Sylla. He fled into Spain, and maintained the war successfully in 
that country, until he was treacherously assassinated by one of his supposed 
partisans. This may appear a sufficient reason for his not being mentioned 
by Pompey. — B. 
'^'^ " Toties imperator antequam miles." He had been raised to the 
highest rank without passing through the various gradations of military 
life.— B. 
'^^ Speaking of this honorary crown, Pliny says, B. xvi. c. 4, '*At the 
present day it is not given to the victor himself, but proclamation is made 
that he confers the crown upon his country." 
It is noticed by the commentators, that Aulus Gellius, speaking of 
this building, calls it the Temple of Victory, B. x. c. 1 ; the error, it is 
supposed, may have arisen from Pompey having placed a statue of Victory 
in the Temple. — B. 
29th of September. 
Pliny, referring to these events, in a subsequent place, B. xxvii. c. 6, 
says that it took place '^pridie Kalend. Octob. die natalis sui." Plutarch 
informs us, that the triumph lasted two days, a circumstance which may 
