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indications. For example, on his/her return in Rome of the duration after the
events above of relative, Sylla which the estimate of the character of Pompey and
of the importance of his/her services to increase continually seemed, it desired
to connect him/it with his/her his/her own marriage family. He proposed accordingly
that Pompeys you/he/she should grant the divorce to his/her wife Antistia, and he marries Aemilia the,
daughter-in-law of Sylla. Aemilia was already the wife of another man,
from who she should be brought away to manufacture her wife of
Pompey. However, this doesn't seem a very serious to have been thought
the difficulty in the way of the setup. The wife of Pompey had put away,
and the wife of another man taken in his/her place. Such action was a gross
violation not only of it revealed and written law, but of that universal
instincts of right and badly that they are indelible planted in every human creature
hearts. It ended, as you/he/she would have been expected, more disastrously.
Antistia was absorbed, clearly, in the deepest anguish. His/her father
you/he/she had recently lost his/her life on account of affection supposed his to
Pompey. His/her mother he killed in the anguish and the desperation produced from
the adversities of his/her family; and Aemilia the new wife, suddenly died,
on the occasion of the birth of a child, very short once later her
marriage with Pompey.
[Sidenote: the success of Pompey in Africa.]
[Sidenote: the affection of his/her soldiers.]
[Sidenote: the title of Pompey as "Gran."]
However, these national troubles didn't insert serious obstacle
to the progress of Pompey in his/her career of the greatness and glory. Sylla sent
him on a great enterprise after another in everybody of what Pompey
been acquitted in an admirable way. Among his/her other countries, him
served for of the time in Africa with great success. He returned in quota
time from this consignment, loaded with military honors. His/her soldiers had
becomes so very attached to him that there was almost a mutiny in the