1Come now, consider what his self-control is in other matters. 1Where do you think that great speed and that incredible pace of his came from? 1For it was not any exceptional strength of rowers, or some unheard-of skill in steering, or some new winds that carried him so swiftly to the furthest lands, but the things which usually delay other men did not hold him back. 1Greed did not call him away from his set course to some plunder, nor lust to pleasure, nor a pleasant spot to enjoyment, nor the fame of a city to sightseeing, nor, finally, toil itself to rest; 1lastly, the statues and paintings and other adornments of Greek towns, which others think they should carry off, he did not think he should even go to see.
41And so everyone in those regions now looks on Gnaeus Pompey as someone not sent from this city but come down from heaven; 41now at last they begin to believe that there were once Romans of such restraint, a thing which by now seemed to foreign nations incredible and falsely handed down to memory; 41now the splendour of your empire has begun to bring light to those peoples; 41now they understand that it was not without reason that their ancestors, at the time when we had magistrates of such self-control, preferred to be subject to the Roman people rather than to rule over others. 41Moreover, private individuals are said to have such easy access to him, and to be so free to complain of wrongs done by others, that he who surpasses the leading men in rank seems to be the equal of the lowest in approachability.
42Then how strong he is in counsel, and in weight and fluency of speech — in which there is itself a certain dignity befitting a commander — you, citizens, have often learned in this very place. 42And his good faith: how highly do you think it is esteemed among the allies, when all enemies of every kind have judged it most sacred? 42His humanity, again, is so great that it is hard to say whether enemies feared his courage more when they fought him, or loved his clemency more when they were conquered. 42And will anyone doubt that this great war should be entrusted to him, who seems to have been born by some divine plan to finish all the wars of our time?