said, "worship the rising than the setting sun." Sulla
did not happen to catch the words, but he saw the emotion they aroused
in the assembly, and asked that they should be repeated to him. His
astonishment permitted him to say nothing more than "Let him triumph!
Let him triumph." And triumph he did, to the disgust of his older
rivals, whom he intended, but that the streets were not broad enough to
allow of the display, still further to affront by harnessing elephants
instead of horses to his chariot.

[Footnote 5: _Pompeius_ was the name of his house (_gens). Strabo_ had
been the name of his family (_familia_). This he seems to have disused,
assuming _Magnus_ in its stead.]

Two years afterwards he met an antagonist more formidable than any he
had yet encountered. Sertorius, the champion at once of the party of the
people and of the native tribes of Spain, was holding out against the
government of Rome. The veteran leader professed a great contempt for
his young adversary, "I should whip the boy," he said, "if I were not
afraid of the old woman" (meaning Pompey's colleague). But he took good
care not to underrate him in practice, and put forth all his skill in
dealing with him. Pompey's first campaign against him was disastrous;
the successes of the second were checkered by some serious defeats. For
five years the struggle continued, and seemed little likely to come to
an end, when Sertorius was assassinated by his second in command,
Perpenna. Perpenna was unable to wield the power which he had thus
acquired, and was defeated and taken prisoner by Pompey. He endeavored
to save his life by producing the correspondence of Sertorius. This
implicated some of the most distinguished men in Rome, who had held
secret communications with the rebel leader and had even invited him
over into Italy. With admirable wisdom Pompey, while he ordered the
instant execution of the traitor, burned the letters unread.

Returning to Italy he was followed by his usual good fortune. That
country had been suffering cruelly from a revolt of the slaves, which
the Roman generals had been strangely slow in suppressing. Roused to
activity by the tidings of Pompey's approach, Crassus, who was in
supreme command, attacked and defeated the insurgent army. A
considerable body, however, contrived to escape, and it was this with
which Pompey happened to fall in, and which he completely destroyed.
"Crassus defeated the enemy," he was thus enabled to boa