As formerly Sulla's hunting out of the democrats had ended in the Sertorian insurrec tion, which was conflict first waged by pirates and then by robbers and ultimately became very serious war, so possibly, there was in the Catonian aristocracy or among the adherents of Pompeius as much spirit and fire as in the Marian democracy, and there was found among them true sea-king, commonwealth
of the monarchy of Caesar and perhaps match for
arise on the still unconquered sea.
arise on the still unconquered sea.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
