[1181] Plutarch, Crassus, 17.
[1182] Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 8.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 22.
[1183] Suetonius, Cæsar, 22.
[1184] Dio Cassius, XL. 34.
[1185] “At the gladiatorial exhibition, the giver of the show and all his attendants were received with hisses. At the games in honour of Apollo, the tragedian Diphilus made a pointed allusion to our friend Pompey in the lines—
‘’Tis through our woes that thou art great,’
and was called upon to repeat the words a thousand times. Further on, the whole assembly cheered him when he said,
‘A time shall come, when thou thyself shall weep
That power of thine so deadly’—
for they are lines that one might have said were written on purpose by an enemy of Pompey. The words
‘If nought, nor law, nor virtue, hold thee back,’