Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49 : Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

• Main Author: Louise Hodgson (auth)
• Other Authors: Ingo Gildenhard (auth), Cicero (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; Rome; war; Latin text
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean c...