Man. 15.1Et quoniam auctōritās quoque in bellīs administrandīs multum atque in imperiō mīlitārī valet, certē nēminī dubium est quīn eā rē īdem ille imperātor plūrimum possit.And since authority too counts for much in conducting wars and in military command, surely no one doubts that in this respect the same commander is supremely powerful. Man. 15.1Vehementer autem pertinēre ad bella administranda quid hostēs, quid sociī dē imperātōribus nostrīs exīstiment quis ignōrat, cum sciāmus hominēs in tantīs rēbus ut aut metuant aut contemnant aut ōderint aut ament opīniōne nōn minus et fāmā quam aliquā ratiōne certā commovērī?And who does not know that it matters greatly in conducting wars what the enemy and the allies think of our commanders, since we know that in such great affairs men are moved to fear or despise, to hate or love, no less by opinion and report than by any sure reasoning? Man. 15.1Quod igitur nōmen umquam in orbe terrārum clārius fuit, cuius rēs gestae parēs?What name, then, has ever been more famous in the whole world, whose achievements a match for his? Man. 15.1dē quō homine vōs, id quod maximē facit auctōritātem, tanta et tam praeclāra iūdicia fēcistis?about what man have you made such great and such glorious judgements, the very thing that most creates authority?
Man. 15.44An vērō ūllam usquam esse ōram tam dēsertam putātis quō nōn illīus diēī fāma pervāserit, cum ūniversus populus Rōmānus refertō forō complētīsque omnibus templīs ex quibus hic locus cōnspicī potest ūnum sibi ad commūne omnium gentium bellum Pompeium imperātōrem dēpoposcit?Or do you really think that there is any coast anywhere so deserted that the fame of that day has not reached it, when the whole Roman people, with the forum packed and all the temples from which this place can be seen filled, demanded Pompey alone as their commander for a war common to all nations? Man. 15.44Itaque ut plūra nōn dīcam neque aliōrum exemplīs cōnfirmem quantum auctōritās valeat in bellō, ab eōdem Cn. Pompeiō omnium rērum ēgregiārum exempla sūmantur.And so, to say no more and not to confirm from the examples of others how much authority counts for in war, let examples of every outstanding achievement be taken from this same Gnaeus Pompey. Man. 15.44Quī quō diē ā vōbīs maritimō bellō praepositus est imperātor, tanta repente vīlitās ex summā inopiā et cāritāte reī frūmentāriae cōnsecūta est ūnīus hominis spē ac nōmine quantam vix in summā ūbertāte agrōrum diūturna pāx efficere potuisset.On the day on which he was put in command of the war at sea by you, through the hope and name of one man such cheapness of corn suddenly followed upon the most extreme scarcity and high prices as a long peace could scarcely have produced in the greatest fertility of the fields.
Man. 15.45Iam acceptā in Pontō calamitāte ex eō proeliō dē quō vōs paulō ante invītus admonuī, cum sociī pertimuissent, hostium opēs animīque crēvissent, satis firmum praesidium prōvincia nōn habēret, āmīsissētis Asiam, Quirītēs, nisi ad ipsum discrīmen eius temporis dīvīnitus Cn. Pompeium ad eās regiōnēs Fortūna populī Rōmānī attulisset.Again, after the disaster suffered in Pontus in that battle of which I reminded you a little earlier against my will, when the allies had become terrified, the enemy's resources and spirits had grown, and the province had no sufficiently strong garrison, you would have lost Asia, citizens, had not the Fortune of the Roman people, by divine providence, brought Gnaeus Pompey to those regions at the very crisis of that moment. Man. 15.45Huius adventus et Mithridātem īnsolitā īnflātum victōriā continuit et Tigrānēn magnīs cōpiīs minitantem Asiae retardāvit.His arrival both held back Mithridates, puffed up by an unaccustomed victory, and checked Tigranes, who was threatening Asia with great forces. Man. 15.45Et quisquam dubitābit quid virtūte perfectūrus sit quī tantum auctōritāte perfēcerit, aut quam facile imperiō atque exercitū sociōs et vectīgālia cōnservātūrus sit quī ipsō nōmine ac rūmōre dēfenderit?And will anyone doubt what he will accomplish by his merit, who has accomplished so much by his authority, or how easily he will preserve allies and revenues with military command and an army, who has defended them by his very name and reputation?