granaries of the
Republic with strong garrisons and fleets. Next, after returning
to Italy, he provided in the same way for the safety of the two
Spains and Transalpine Gaul, and sending ships to the Illyrian
coast, to Achaia, and all Greece besides, he established large
forces, military and naval, in the two seas of Italy. On the
forty-ninth day after he left Brundisium he brought the whole of
Cilicia under the dominion of the Roman people, and all the
Pirates, wherever they might be, either were captured and put to
death, or surrendered to his sole authority and command. Finally,
when the Cretans had followed him even into Pamphylia with envoys
begging for clemency, he did not disdain their offer of submission
and was content to demand hostages. The result was that this great
war, that lasted so long and reached so far, a war that harassed
every country and every people, was taken in hand by Pompeius at
the end of the winter, was begun in the early days of the spring,
and was finished by the middle of the summer.

Cicero, _De Lege Manilia_, Secs. 34-5.

Pompeius used the renown won by this success to secure for himself the
fruits of the Asiatic victories won by Lucullus. On the one hand, he
worked in Rome against Lucullus so that he got the command transferred
to himself; on the other, by bribery and the arts of Clodius, Lucullus's
brother-in-law and aide-de-camp, he worked up a mutiny among his troops.
Then he went out to Asia and in a series of spectacular campaigns laid
the East at his feet. His progress through Asia was a parade; it was no
wonder that the Romans were dazzled by the news of the way in which he
overran kingdoms and conquered vast territories of enormous wealth.
Pompeius seemed to them a general of the rank of Hannibal or Alexander.

The Senate grew alarmed. They had not forgotten how Sulla had returned
from the East in 83 and set himself up as Dictator, master of Rome. If
Pompeius in 62 wanted to do the same there was nothing to prevent him.
He had a great army, devoted to him and ready to follow him in any
adventure. He was extremely popular with the people of Rome. He had
never shown any particular respect for the laws and customs of the State
when he wanted anything for himself. He had broken the rules Sulla had
laid down, by which no one could hold high command until he had passed
through all the lower offices. Now, while still in Asia, he demanded to
be a