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Come now, consider also what moderation he has displayed in other matters also. How was it,
do you suppose, that he was able to display that excessive rapidity, and to perform that
incredible voyage? For it was no unexampled number of rowers, no hitherto unknown skill in
navigation, no new winds, which bore him so swiftly to the most distant lands; but those
circumstances which are wont to delay other men did not delay him. No avarice turned him aside
from his intended route in pursuit of some plunder or other; no lust led him away in pursuit
of pleasure; no luxury allured him to seek its delights; the illustrious reputation of no city
tempted him to make its acquaintance; even labour did not turn him aside to seek rest. Lastly,
as for the statues, and pictures, and other embellishments of Greek cities, which other men
think worth carrying away, he did not think them worthy even of a visit from him. And,
therefore, every one in those countries looks upon Cnaeus Pompeius as some one descended from
heaven, not as some one sent out from this city.
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