Selection orations ..with .. . ud pageant of a triumph. Ten years later,his victories in Spain secured him the same honor a second entered the city in triumphpJ procession on the thirty-firstof December, 71 B. C, and, on the following day, entered uponthe duties of the consulship to which he Imd been elected,though legally ineligible, as he had never filled the lower officesof quaestor and i^raetor. His administration was marked byseveral bold reforms in the interest of the people. Three years later, having been appointed under the Gabinianlaw to the sole command in the war against the
Selection orations ..with .. . ud pageant of a triumph. Ten years later,his victories in Spain secured him the same honor a second entered the city in triumphpJ procession on the thirty-firstof December, 71 B. C, and, on the following day, entered uponthe duties of the consulship to which he Imd been elected,though legally ineligible, as he had never filled the lower officesof quaestor and i^raetor. His administration was marked byseveral bold reforms in the interest of the people. Three years later, having been appointed under the Gabinianlaw to the sole command in the war against the pirates, he en-tered upon a vigorous campaign which, in the brief period ofninety days, was crowned with complete success. But the Romans were still engaged in another war which re-quired in its leader the rarest gifts and powers. Upwards oftwenty years before, IMithridates, King of Pontus, having alliedhimself with Tigi-anes, King of Armenia, by giving him hisdaughter in marriage, formed the bold design of expelling the232 I. POMPf:Y THE GREAT. p. 232.
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