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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7762439, member: 87809&quot;]Fascinating <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> One can find the passage by Plutarch at </p><p><a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html" rel="nofollow">http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Scipio the elder, who subdued the Carthaginians in Spain in far greater and nobler conflicts, never petitioned for a triumph, because he had never been consul or praetor; and if Pompey, who had scarcely yet fully grown a beard, and was not of age to be a senator, should enter the city in triumph, what a weight of envy would it bring, he said, at once upon his government and Pompey&#039;s honour. This was his language to Pompey, intimating that he could not by any means yield to his request, but if he would persist in his ambition, that he was resolved to interpose his power to humble him. Pompey, however, was not daunted; but bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun; as if to tell him that his power was increasing and Sylla&#039;s in the wane. Sylla did not perfectly hear the words, but observing a sort of amazement and wonder in the looks and gestures of those that did hear them, he asked what it was that he said. When it was told him, he seemed astounded at Pompey&#039;s boldness, and cried out twice together, &quot;Let him triumph,&quot; and when others began to show their disapprobation and offence at it, Pompey, it is said, to gall and vex them the more, designed to have his triumphant chariot drawn with four elephants (having brought over several which belonged to the African kings), but the gates of the city being too narrow, he was forced to desist from that project, and be content with horses.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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