Capitolo 68
it would involve. If the law had to pass creating this office and a person
is designate to fill him/it, it is simple that such commander it would be
dressed with enormous powers; but then he would incur in, on the other
gives, an enormous and commensurate responsibility, as they are able the Roman people
rigidly hold him/it responsible for the height and perfect completion of
the job him under takings, after they was surrendered so every possible
necessary power to so unconditionally bring him/it defeasible in his/her hands.
[Sidenote: Pompey named to the command.]
[Sidenote: fall in the price of wheat.]
I was a lot there maneuvering, management and it debates that
gives to effect the passage of this law, and, on the other, to defeat him/it.
Caesar that, although not so prominent as Pompey, was rising still now
quickly to influence and to motorize, was for the measure, because, as
he is said it perceived that the people were pleased with him. It was to
length adopted. Pompey was designate then to fill the office that the
law created. He accepted the trust, and it started to prepare for the enormous one
undertaking. The price of skin of wheat immediately in Rome, as soon as the
appointment of Pompey was made known, as the dealers that had great
provisionings in the barns now it was anxious there to predicament, also to a
reduction, feeling himself/herself/itself how confident the measures of that Pompeys, would result in
drawing abundant provisionings. The people, amazed to this sudden
relaxation of the pressure of their loads, said that the a lot of name of
Pompey had put an end to the war.
[Sidenote: the complete success of Pompey.]
They was not wrong him in their anticipations of the success of Pompey. Him
freed the Mediterranean by pirates in three months, within one systematic
and the simple operation of which it allows him one of the most impressive examples
the power of united effort and organized, it planned and it conducted within one
alone mind of master that has the history of venerable old man or modern times
recorded. The way in which this job was effected was this: