as she was walking in the Fields and put her to a great Ransome And further to dispite the Romans when they had taken any of them and they told them that they were Citizens of Rome they would cloath them like Romans and putting out the Shipladder they would bid them be gone to Rome and if they refused they would throw them overboard and drown them These Pirats had all the Mediterranean Seas at their command that a Marchant durst scarce look out or traffique any whether This moved the Romans â—earing a famine by their means to send Pompey to recover the Dominion of the Seas from them The first man that moved that Pompey might not only be made Admirall at Sea but have absolute power to command all Persons whatsoever without giving any account of his doings was Pompey's Friend which was done accordingly and absolute authority was given unto him not only of the Seas but for the space of four hundered Furlongs from the Sea within which compasse were many great Nations and mighty Kings It gave him power also to choose out of the Senate fifteen Leiutenants and to give to every of them severall Provinces in charge and also to take money out of the Treasury to defray the charges of a Fleet of two hundred Saile with full power besides to leavy what men of War he thought good and as many Galliots and Marriners as he pleased This Law was confirmed by the People Yet the Nobility and chiefe Senators thought that this authority did exceed not only all envy but that it gave them apparent cause of fear to give such unlimited power to a single Person whereupon they were all against it but Caesar who promoted it not so much to favour Pompey as to ingratiate himself with the People But the Noblemen fell out with Pompey and one of the Consuls was very hot with him told him that he sought to follow Romulus his steps but peradventure he would come short of that end he made This so provoked the People that they had thought to have killed him But Catulus a worthy man spake also against this Edict yet spake much in the praise of Pompey and in conclusion avised the People not to adventure a man of so great account in such dangerous Wars For said he if you chance to lose him whom have ye then to put in his place The People cried out Your selfe After this seeing how the People were bent he spake no more Next after him Rosoius would have preswaded them to have sent an other with Pompey as his Colleague but the People made such an outcry against him that a Crow flying over the Market place fell to the Ground Upon the day when the Decree was to be fully passed Pompey went forth of the City and when he understood that it was confirmed he returned the same night privately to avoid the envy they would have borne him if the People should have flocked in multitudes to have waited on him home The next morning he came abroad and Sacrificed to the Gods and audience being given him in a publick meeting he so handled the matter that they much inlarged his power almost doubling the preparations which were at first Decreed to him For it was ordained that he should have five hundred Ships one hundred and twenty thousand Footmen and five thousand Horsemen He chose also twenty four Senators all of them having been Generals of Armies and two Generall Treasurers Whilest these things were preparing the price of Victuals fell which rejoyced the People much and they said openly that the very Name of Pompey had almost ended the War already Pompey divided all the Sea into thirteen Divisions and in each of them he appointed a certain number of Ships and a Leiutenant over each of them and by thus dispersing his Navy all abroad he brought all the Pirates Ships that were in a Fleet within his danger and when he had taken them he brought them all into an Harbour But such of them as could escape fled into Cilicia as the surest place of retreat These Pompey would needs follow in his own person with sixty of his best Ships Yet went he not till he had scowred the Tusâ—an Seas with the coast of Libia Sardinia Sicily and Corsica oâ— all those Thieves that had wont to keep thereabouts and this he did within the space of fourty Dayes taking infinite paines both himself and his Lieutenants Pisâ— one of the Consuls did all he could to hinder Pompey's preparations and supplies of Oare men out of envy to his prosperity Pompey being informed of it sent his Ships to Brundusium himself in the meane time passing through Tuscany came to Rome where so soon as his comming was known the People ran out to meet him as if he had been a long time absent and that which made them more joyfull was that now Victuals came in freely out of all parts the Seas being cleared from Pirates Pompey could have had Piso put out of his Consulship but would not So having setled all things in quiet according to his desire he hasted to his Navy at Brundusâ—â—m and hoising Sale passed to Athens where he landed and Sacrificed to the Gods and so returned to his Ships At his going out of the City there were two writings in his Praise affixed to the Gate That within was this The humbler that thou dost thy self as man behave The more thou dost deserve the Name of God to have That on the outside of the Gate was this We wisht for thee we wait for the We worship thee we wait on thee Now Pompey having taken many of these Pirates upon their submission spared their lives which so encouraged the rest that flying from his Captains and Leiutenants they came and delivered up themselves with their Wives and children into his hands Pompey pardoned all that thus came to him and by that meanes came to have knowledge of the rest whom he pursued and in the end took The most and richest of them had conveied their Wives children and goods into strong Castles and Townes upon Mount Taurus and they that were fit for service imbarked and lay before a City of Corasesium where they tarried for Pompey and gave him Battel by Sea and after endured a Siege by land Yet after a while they besought him to receive them to mercy yeilding themselves their Towns and Islands which they had strongly fortified into his hands Thus was this War ended and all the Pirates within lesse than three moneths space driven out of the Seas Pompey won also a great number of Ships and ninety Gallies armed with Copper Spurres As for those whom he had taken who were in number about twenty thousand lusty men and good Souldiers he would not put them to Death but planted them in inland Countries in certain small Townes of the Cilicians that were scarce inhabited who were very glad of them and gave them Lands to maintain them
them Pompey after this remained in Spain till he had pacified all tumults and then went with his Army back into Italy and arrived just when the War of the Bondmen and Eencers led by Spartacus was in the greatest fury Upon Pompey's comming Crassus being sent Generall against them made haste to give them battell wherein he overcame them and slew twelve thousand and three hundred of these fugitive slaves Yet Fortune intending to give Pompey some part of the honour five thousand of these Bondmen who escaped from the battell fell into his hands whom he overcame and wrote to the Senate at Rome that Perpenna had overcome the Fencers in battell and that he had plucked up this War by the roots The Romans receiving these Letters were very glad of the newes for the love which they bore to him Yet for all the great honour and love they did bear to him they suspected and were afraid of him because he did not disband his Army fearing that he would follow Sylla's steps and rule over them by force Hereupon as many went forth to meet him out of fear as out of good will But when he told them that he would disband his Army so soon as he had Tryumphed then his ill-willers could blame him for nothing but that he inclined more to the People than to the Nobles and because he desired to restore the Tribuneship to the People which Sylla had puâ— down Indeed the common People at Rome never longed for any thing more than they did to see the Office of the Tribunes set up again and Pompey was very glad that he had such an oppoâ—tunity thereby to ingratiate himself with them and to requiâ—e the love which they had shewed to him This was the second Tryumph and the first Consulship which the Senate decreed to Pompey which made him neither the greater nor the better man Yet was it such an Honour as Crassus the richest greatest and eloquentest man in Rome durst not demand before he had requested Pompey's good will therein And truely Pompey was very glad of the request having of a long time sought an opportunity whereby to gratifie him and therefore he made earnest suit to the People for him assuring them that he would as much thank them for making Crassus his fellow-Consul and Colleague as he would for making himself Consul Yet when Pompey had obtained his request and they were both created Consuls they were in all things contrary one to the other and never agreed in any one thing whilest they ruled together Crassus had the more authority with the Senate and Pompey with the People for he restored to them the Office of Tribunes and passed by Edict that the Knights of Rome should have power again to Judg in Causes both Civil and Criminall This wonderfully pleased the people when himself came in Person to the Censors and pray'd that he might be dispensed with for going to the Wars At this time Gellius and Lentulus were the Censors who being honourably set in their Tribunal seats taking a view of all the Romane Knights that mustered before them they marvelled when they saw Pompey comming with all the Ensignes of a Consul borne before him and himself as other Knights did leading his Horse by the bridle and when he came neer he commanded the Sergeants that carried the Axes before him to make room for him to pass by the Barrs with his Horse where the Censors sate This made the People to flock about him wondring and rejoycing with great silence the Censors themselves also were marvellous glad to see him so obedient to the Law and did him great reverence Then did the elder of the Censors examine him thus Pompey the Great I pray thee tell me if thou didst serve so long in the war as the Law doth appoint Pompey answered aloud Yes verily have I done that under no Captain but my self The People hearing this shouted aloud for joy and the Censors themselves came down from their seats and accompanied Pompey to his House to please the great multitude that followed him clapping their hands for joy At the end of their Consulship grudges growing higher between Crassus and Pompey there was one Gaius Aurelius a Knight who till then had never spoken in the publick Assembly He getting up into the Pulpit for Orations told the People openly that that night Jupiter had appeared to him and commanded him to tell both the Consuls from him that they should not leave their Office before they were reconciled together Yet for all this Pompey stirred not But Crassus took him by the hand and spake thus before the People My Lords I think it no dishonour to me to give place to Pompey sith you your selves have thought him worthy to be called the Great before he had any haire on his face and to whom you granted the honour of two Tryumphs before he came to be a Senator Having thus spoken they were reconciled together and so gave up their Office Crassus after this retired to his former manner of life and Pompey as much as he could avoided pleading mens causes in publick and by degrees withdrew himself from frequenting the Market-place and came seldom abroad but when he did he had alwayes a great traine following him It was a rare thing to see him to be familiar with any one or to come abroad but with a great company of attendants The power of the Pirats upon the Seas began in Ciâ—ieia of which at first there was no great account made till they grew bold and venturous in King Methridates Wars being hired to serve him and when the Romans engaged in Civill Wars at home they neglected looking after them which made them more audacious For they did not only rob and spoil all Marchants by Sea but plundred Islands and Cities upon the Sea-coast insomuch as men of great Nobility and Wealth joyned with them and they set up store-houses in divers places and had Beacons to give warning by fire all along the Sea-coasts which were well watched they had also great Fleets of Ships well furnished with excellent Galliots skilfull Pilots and Marriners their Ships were swift of Sail and Pinnaces for discovery All the Sea-coast over there was Musick singing and rioting amongst them Prizes were daily brought in Persons of quallity taken prisoners and put to great ransome Their Ships were a Thousand in number and they had taken four hundred Towns They had Spoiled and destroyed many Temples that had never been proâ—ained before They had many strange Sacrifizes and Ceremonies of Religion amongst them and besides all other insolences and injuries which they did the Romans by Sea they often went on Land and plundred and destroyed their Country Houses and once they took two Roman Praetors in their purple Robes with their Sergeants and Officers and carried them quite away At another time they surprised the Daughter of Antonius a man that had the honour of a Tryumph as
and whereas the City of the Sâ—lians had not long before been destroied by Tygranes King of Armenia he replenished it again by placing many of them there He bestowed others of them in the City of Dyma in the Country of Achaia which lacked Inhabitants and had great store of good Land belonging to it though many of his enemies greatly blamed him for it Before Pompey was chosen Generall against the Pirates young Metellus was sent Praetor into Creet who finding it to be a den of these Thieves he took many of them and put them to Death the rest that escaped being straightly besieged by him sent unto Pompey craving pardon and desiring him to receive them to mercy Pompey accordingly pardoned them and wrote to Metellus requiring him to give over that War commanding the Cities also that they should not obey Metellus He sent also Lucius Octavius one of his Leiutenants who entered into the Towns besieged by Metellus and fought against him in the behalfe of the Pirates This act of Pompey procured him much ill will for that he fought for the common enemies of the world who had neither God nor Law and that only to deprive a Roman Praetor of his Triumph who had done such good service against them Yet Metellus lest not off his Wars for Pompey's Letters but having taken the Pirates he put them to Death When the newes came to Rome that the piratick War was ended and that Pompey had no more to doe but â—o go from City to City to visit them one Manlius a Tribune of the People brought in another Law that Pompeâ— taking the Army from Lucullus and all the Provinces under his Government with all Bythinia which Gâ—abrio kept should go and War upon Tygranes and Methridates and yet reserve in his hands all his jurisdiction and Army by Sea in as royall a manner as he had it before which was to make him an absolute Monarch over all the Roman Empire The Senate stuck not so much at the injury offered to Lucullus depriving him of the honour of his doings and giving it to another but that which most grived them was to see Pompey's power established into a plain Tyranny Hereupon they encouraged one another to oppose it to the uttermost yet when the day came for the passing of this Law they all drew back for fear of angring the People and none durst oppose it Only Catulus inveied against it a long time together But say what he could the Decree passed by the voices of the Tribes And thus was Pâ—mpey in his absence made Lord of all that which Sylla with much effusion of bloud had attained to with great difficulty When Pompey by Letters from Rome was informed what Law the People had past in his behalfe he seemed to be much grieved that such great Offices and charges should be laid upon him one in the neck of another and clapping his hand on his thigh he said O Gods shall I never see an end of these troubles Had it not beeen better for me to have been a meane man and unknowne than thus continually to be ingaged in War What! shall I never see the time that breaking the neck of spite and envy against me I may yet once in my life live quietly at home in my Country with my Wife and Children His Friends that were about him were much displeased with this his deep dissimulation knowing that his ambitious desire to rule made him mad at heart to be thus imployed the rather because â—â—nds contention between him and Lucullus which his deeds forth with discovered Hereupon he sent forth his Precepts into all quarters requiring all Souldiers immediatly to repaire to him and caused all the Kings and Princes within his jurisdiction to attend him and so going through all the Countries he changed all that Lucullus had before established He also released the penalties that were imposed upon them and took from them all the favours that Lucullus had granted them Lucullus finding himself so hardly dealt with Friends on both sides mediated a meeting betwixt them that they might talk together and accordingly they met in Galatia having their Sergeants and Officers with Rods wreathed about with Lawrell carried before them which shewed that Pompey came to take Lucullus's honour from him Indeed Lucullus had been Consul before Pompey and was the older man yet Pompey exceeded him in Dignity having Triumphed twice At their first meeting they discoursed very courteously each commending the others deeds and each rejoicing at the others good successe but at parting they fell to hot words Pompey upbrading Lucullus's covetousnesse and Pompey's ambition so that their Friends had much ado to part them Lucullus when he was gone divided the Lands in Galatia which he had conquered and bestowed other gifts upon them Pompey on the other side Camping hard by him commanded the People every where not to obey him He took his Souldiers also from him leaving him only sixteen hundred choosing out such as he thought would do him small service He blemished his Glory also telling every one that Lucullus had fought only with the shadow and pomp of those two Kings and that he had left him to fight with all their force and power Lucullus on the other side said that Pompey went only to fight with such as himself had subdued and that he sought the honour of Triumph over Armenia and Pontus as he had formerly practiced to Triumph for overcoming a few Slaves and fugitives Lucullus being now gone Pompey sent strong Garrisons into all the Sea coast from Phoenicia to the Bosphorus and then marched towards Methridates who had in his Camp thirty thousand Footmen and two thousand Horsemen yet durst he not fight but encamped upon an high Mountain till he was forced to leave it for lack of Water He was no sooner gone but Pompey seized upon the place and setting his Souldiers to dig he found Water enough for all his Army Then he encamped round about Methridates besieging him in his owne Camp Methridates endured it foutty five dayes and then slaying all the sick and impotent in his Camp with the choise of his Army he escaped by night Another time Pompey found him by the River Euphrates and lodged hard by him Methridates prepared suspecting that Pompey would that night storm his Camp but Pompey thought it not saâ—e to fight in the dark and therefore resolved rather to encompasse him that he might not fly and to fight him in the morning but Pompey's old Captains would needs fight presently which Pompey at last consented to and the Romanes râ—n upon them with great cries which so affrighted their enemies that they presently turned their backs and fled so that the Romans slew ten thousand of them and took their Camp Methridates himself with eight hundred Horsemen made a lane through the Romans and so escaped Yet as soon as they were passed his men dispersed some one way some an other
eight day of our December Pompey entered into the Temple and many others with him and there beheld those things which were not lawfull to be seen by any but the High Priests only And whereas there were in the Temple the Table and Candlesticks with the Lamps all vessels for Sacrifice and the Censers all of pure Gold and a huge heape of Spices and in the Treasuries of sacred money above two thousand Talents yet Pompey medled not with any of these but the next day he commanded them which had the charge of the Temple to purifie and cleanse it and to offer their solemn Sacrifizes unto God Pompey then restored the High Priesthood to Hyrcanus both because he had shewed himself so forward all the time of the Siege as also for that he hindred the Jewes that were in all the Country from joyning with Aristobulus and together with the Priesthood he gave him the Principality also only forbiding him to wear a Crown Then did he put to death those that were the chiefest cause of the War and made the Jewes Tributaries to the Romans and the Cities which they had formerly conquered in Caelosyria he took from them commanding them to obey their own Governours and the whole Nation of the Jewes formerly advanced through prosperity he contracted within their ancient bounds The King of the Arabians that dwelt at the Castle of Petra that never before made any account of the Romans was now greatly afraid and wrote to Pompey that he was at his devotion to doe what he commanded Pompey to try him brought his Army before his Castle of Petra and lodged them for that day and fell to riding and mannaging his Horse up and down the Camp 〈◊〉 the meane time Posts came riding from the Realme of Pontus with Letters of good newes as appeared by their Javlins wreathed about with Lawrel the Souldiers seeing that flocked about the place to hear the newes bur Pompey would make an end of his riding before he would read the Letters whereupon many cryed to him to a light which he did But then he wanted a high place to stand upon and the Souldiers were so impatient to hear the newes that they would not stay to make one they heaped saddles one upon an other and Pompey geting up upon them told them that Methridates was dead having killed himself because his Son Pharnaces rebelled against him and had wan all which his Father possessed writing to him that he kept if for himself and the Romans Upon this newes all the Camp rejoyced wonderfully and Sacrifized to the Gods with great mirth Pompey finding this troublesome War to be so easily ended presently left Arabia and by speedy marches he came to the City of Amisus There he met with great Presents which were sent him from Pharnaces and many dead Bodies of the Kings kindred and the Body of Methridates himself who was known by certaine scars in his face Pompey would by no meanes see him but to avoid envy he sent him away to the City of Sinope He much wondred at his rich Apparrell and Weapons The Scabbard of his Sword cost four hundred Talents His Hatt also was of wonderous workmanship Pompey having here ordered all things according to his mind he went homewards with great pomp and Glory Coming to Mytylene he eased the City of all Taxes for Theophanes his sake and was present at certaine Playes the subjects whereof were the great acts of Pompey He so liked the Theater where these Playes were made that he drew a moddle of it to make a statlier than it in Rome As he passed by the City of Rhodes he heard the Rhetoricians dispute and gave each of them a Talent The like he did at Athens unto the Philosophers there and towards the beautifying of the City he gave them fifty Talents At his return into Italy he expected to have been received very honourably and longed to see his Wife and Children thinking also that they longed as much to see him But God so ordered it that in his own House he met with occasion of sorrow For his Wife Mutia in his absence had played the Harlot Yet whilst he was a far off he made no account of the reports which were made to him of her But when he drew neere to to Italy he was more attentive to them whereupon he sent her word he would own he no more for his Wife There were also rumors spread abroad in Rome which much troubled him it being given out that he would bring his Army strait to Rome and make himself absolute Lord of the Empire Crassus hereupon to give more credit to the report and to procure the greater envy against Pompey conveied himself Family and Goods out of Rome But when Pompey came to Italy calling his Souldiers together he made an Oration to them as the time and occasion required and then commanded them to disband and every one to returne to his own home and to follow his businesse till the time of his Triumph As he passed such was the love of the People to him that multituds of them accompanied him to Rome whether he would or no and that with a greater power than he brought with him into Italy so that if he had been disposed to have made Innovation he needed not the assistance of his Army therein At this time there was a Law that no man should enter into Rome before his Triumph wherefore Pompey sent to the Senate requesting them to defer the choise of Consuls for a few dayes that he might further Piso who sued for the Consulship that year But through Catoes meanes they denyed his request Pompey marvelling to hear of his boldnesse and free speech was very desirous to make him his Friend So Cato having two Neeces he desired to marry one himself and to have the other for his Son but Cato flatly denied him though his Wife and Sister were angry that he refused to make alliance with Pompey the Great After this Pompey being desirous to prefer Afranius to be Consul he caused money to be given to the Tribes of the People which being reported abroad made every man speak evil of him as having put the Consulship to sale for money whereas himself had Purchased it by his Noble and valiant deeds The time for his Triumph being come the statelinesse and magnificence was such that though he had two dayes to shew it yet lacked he time to produce all For there were many things prepared for the shew which were not seen and would have set forth another Triumph First the Tables were carried wherein were written the names of the Nations for which he Triumphed as the Kingdomes of Pontus Armenia Cappadocia Paphlagmia Medi◠Colchis Iberia Albania Syria Cilicia and Mesapotomia As also the People that dwell in Phoenicia Palestina Judaea and Arabia And all the Pyrates that he had overcome by Sea and Land In all these Countries he
had taken a thousand Castles and neer nine hundred Townes and Cities Of Pyrates Ships eight hundred Moreover he had replenished with Inhabitants thirty nine desolate Towns These Tables also declared that the Revenue of Rome before these his Conquests arose but to five thousand Myriads but now he had improved them to eight thousand and five hundred Myriads Besides he now brought into the Treasury to the value of twenty thousand Talents in Silver Gold Plate and Jewels besides what had been distributed already amongst the Souldierâ— of which he that had least had fifteen hundred Drachma's for his share The Prisoners that were led in this Triumph were the Son of Tygranes King of Armenia with his Wife and Daughter The Wife of King Tygranes himself called Zozime Aristobulus King of Judaea The Sister of Mâ—thridates with her five Sons And some Ladies of Scythia The Hostages of the Iberians and Albanians as also the Kings of the Commagenians Besides a great number of Marks of Triumph which himself and his Leiutenants had won in severall Battels But the greatest honour that ever he wan and which no other of the Consuls ever attained to was that his three Triumphs were of the three Parts of the World to wit his first of Aâ—rick His second of Europe And his third of Asia and all this before he was fourty years old But from this time forward Pompey began to decline till with his Life he had lost all his Honour Lucullus at his returne out of Asia was well received by the Senate and much more after Pompey was come to Rome For the Senate encouraged him to deal in affairs of State being of himself slow and much given to his ease and pleasure because of his great Riches So when Pompey was come he began to speak against him and through Catoes assistance gat all things confirmed which he had done in Asia and which had been undone by Pompey Pompey having such an afront put upon him by the Senate had recourse to the Tribunes of the People the vilesâ— of whom was Clodius who closed with him and had Pompey ever at his elâ—ow ready to second what motion soever he had to make to the People He also desired Pompey to forsake Cicero his ancient Friend but Clodius his utter enemy By this meanes Cicero was brought into danger and when he required Pompey's assistance he shut the doore against him and went out at a back-doore whereupon Cicero was forced to forsake Rome At this time Julius Caesar returning from his Praetorship out of Spain laid such a plot aâ— quickly brought himself into favouâ— but tended to the ruine of Pompey He was now to sue for his first Consulship and considering the enmity between Pompey and Crassus he considered that if he joyneâ— with one he made the other his enemy he therefore madâ— them Frâ—ends which indeed undid the Commonwealth For by this means Caesar was chosen Consul who strait fell to flattering of the People and made Lawes for their advantage distributing to them Lands which embased the Majesty of the cheife Majestrate and made a Consulship no better then the Tribunship of the People Bibulus his fellow Consul opposed him what he could and Cato also till Caesar brought Pompey into the Pulpit for Orations where he asked him whether he consented to the Decree which he had set forth Pompey answered That he did and that he would defend it with the Sword This gat him much ill will Not many dayes after Pompey married Julia the Daughter of Caesar formerly betrothed to Servilius Caepio and to pacifie Caepio Pompey gave him his own Daughter in marriage whom yet he had promised to Faustus the Son of Sylla Caesar also married Calphurnia the Daughter of Piso. Afterwards Pompey filling Rome with Souldiers carried all by force For as Bibulus came to the Market place accompanied with Cato and Lucullus they were basely abused and many were wounded and when they were driven away they passed the Act for dividing of the Lands as they pleased The People being encouraged hereby never stuck at any matter that Pompey and Caesar would have done And by this means all Pompey's former Acts were confirmed though Lucullus opposed what he could Caesar also was appointed to the Government of both Gauls with four whole Legions Then were chosen Consuls Piso Father in Law to Caesar and Pompey's great flatterer Pompey now so doted on his young Wife that he suffered himself wholly to be ruled by her and leaving all publick affairs he went with her to Country Houses and places of pleasure which encouraged Clodius a Tribune of the People to despise him and to enter into seditious attempts For when he had driven Cicero out of Româ— and sent away Câ—to to make War in Cyprus and Caesar was occupied in Gaul finding that the People were at his beck because he flattered them he then attempted to 〈◊〉 things that Pompey had established Amongst others he took young Tigranes out of Prison and carried him up and down with him and continually picked quarrels against Pompey's Friends Pompey comming abroad one day to hear how a matter of his was handled this â—lodiuâ— having gotten a company of desperate Ruffians about him gat up into a high place and asked aloud Who is the most licentious Captain in all the City They answered Pompey And Who said he is he that scratcheth his head with one finger They again answered Pompey claping their hands with great scorne This went to Pompey's heart who never used to be thus abused and he was yet more vexed when he saw thâ—t the Senate was well pleased with this his disgrace because he had forsaken and betrayed Cicero Upon this a great uprore was made in the Market place and many were hurt whereupon Pompey would come no more abroad whilst Clodius was Tribune but advised with his Friends how he might ingratiare himself with the Senate they advised him to put away his Wife Julia to renounce Caesars Friendship and to stick again to the Senate Some of these things he disliked yet was content to call home Cicero who was Clodius his mortall enemy and in great favour with the Senate Hereupon Pompey brought Cicero's Brother into the Market place to move the matter to the People with many men about him and they fell to blowes so that many were slaine yet he overcome Clodius and Cicero was called home by the Decree of the People who also brought Pompey into favour with the Senate and caused a Law to be made whereby to enable Pompey to bring Corn to Rome and thus by Cecero's meanes Pompey had once again power given him both by Sea and Land over all the Roman Teritories For all the Havens Marts and Fairs and all Storehouses and Marchandizes yea and Tillage came into his hand For this Clodius acused him saying that the Senate had made this Law not because of a deaâ—â—h of Victuals but that they made a dearth