Man. 4.1Mithridātēs autem omne reliquum tempus nōn ad oblīviōnem veteris bellī sed ad comparātiōnem novī contulit.Mithridates, however, devoted all the time that remained not to forgetting the old war but to preparing a new one. Man. 4.1Quī posteā, cum maximās aedificāsset ōrnāssetque classīs exercitūsque permagnōs quibuscumque ex gentibus potuisset comparāsset et sē Bosphorānīs, fīnitimīs suīs, bellum īnferre simulāret, ūsque in Hispāniam lēgātōs ac litterās mīsit ad eōs ducēs quibuscum tum bellum gerēbāmus, ut, cum duōbus in locīs disiūnctissimīs maximēque dīversīs ūnō cōnsiliō ā bīnīs hostium cōpiīs bellum terrā marīque gererētur, vōs ancipitī contentiōne districtī dē imperiō dīmicārētis.Afterwards, when he had built and equipped very large fleets, had gathered very great armies from whatever nations he could, and was pretending to make war on his neighbours the Bosporans, he sent envoys and letters all the way to Spain to the leaders with whom we were then at war, so that, with war being waged on land and sea in two places very far apart and quite opposite, by two enemy forces acting on a single plan, you might fight for your empire torn by a struggle on two fronts.
Man. 4.10Sed tamen alterīus partis perīculum, Sertōriānae atque Hispāniēnsis, quae multō plūs firmāmentī ac rōboris habēbat, Pompēī dīvīnō cōnsiliō ac singulārī virtūte dēpulsum est;Yet the danger on the one side, the Sertorian and Spanish, which had far more stability and strength, was averted by the inspired strategy and singular merit of Pompey; Man. 4.10in alterā parte ita rēs ab Lūcullō, summō virō, est administrāta ut initia illa rērum gestārum magna atque praeclāra nōn fēlīcitātī eius sed virtūtī, haec autem extrēma quae nūper accidērunt nōn culpae sed fortūnae tribuenda esse videantur.on the other side, affairs were so managed by Lucullus, an outstanding man, that those great and glorious beginnings of his achievements seem attributable not to his good luck but to his merit, while these last events, which happened recently, seem attributable not to his fault but to fortune. Man. 4.10Sed dē Lūcullō dīcam aliō locō, et ita dīcam, Quirītēs, ut neque vēra laus eī dētrācta ōrātiōne meā neque falsa adficta esse videātur;But of Lucullus I shall speak elsewhere, and I shall speak in such a way, citizens, that no true praise will seem to have been taken from him by my speech, nor any false praise invented for him; Man. 4.11dē vestrī imperī dignitāte atque glōriā, quoniam is est exōrsus ōrātiōnis meae, vidēte quem vōbīs animum suscipiendum putētis.as for the dignity and glory of your empire, since that is where my speech began, consider what attitude you think you must adopt.