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a piece of admirable workmanship, Gaius, the foster- brother of Mithridates, gave secretly to Faustus, the aon of Sylla, at his request. All which Poinpey was ignorant of, but afterwards, when Pharnaces came to understand it, he severely punished those that embezzled them. Pompey now having ordered all things, and established that province, took his journey homewards in greater pomp and with more festivity. For when he came to Mitylene, he gave the city their freedom upon the inter- cession of Theophanes,* and was present at the contest, there periodically held, of the poets, who took at that time no other theme or subject than the actions of Pom- pey. He was extremely pleased with the theatre itself, and had a model of it taken, intending to erect one in Eome on the same design, but larger and more magnifi- cent. When he came to Rhodes, he attended the lectures of all the philosophers there, and gave to every one of them a talent. Posidonius has published the disputation which he held before him against Hermagoras the rhetori- cian, upon the subject of Invention-j- in general. At Athens, also, he showed similar munificence to the philosophers, and gave fifty talents towards the repairing and beautify- ing the city. So that now by all these acts he well hoped to return into Italy in the greatest splendor and glory possible to man, and find his family as desirous to see him, as he felt himself to come home to them. But that super- natural agency, whose province and charge it is always to

• This Lesbian Greek, who is the reign of Tiberius his descend-

mentioned several times in the life ants were put to death, of Pompey, and again in that of f -A- s in Cicero's de Inventione, Cicero, rose early into favor with the first of the five points of Rhet- Pompey, whose confidence in him oric ; the other four being elocutio, is mentioned in several places by dispositio, memoria, actio. We are Cicero, and also by Caesar. He first to find out what to say, then to left a son named Marcus Pompeius, express it in proper diction, to ar- who was employed both by Augus- range it judiciously, to remember our

tus and Tiberius ; but at the end of speech, and, lastly, to deliver it well.