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“If this Senate will not vote Pompey the command,” said Nepos, “then I give you fair warning that I shall lay a bill before the people as soon as I take office as tribune demanding his recall.”

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Now he felt his inexperience keenly, and he had to leave it to the likes of Curio and Lucullus, Catulus and Isauricus, to question Nepos.

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“I think I speak for all of us, Nepos, when I tell you that the Senate would not be happy with a complete withdrawal.”

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CELER, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother-in-law of Pompey who married his sister, husband of Clodia, brother of Nepos; member of the College of Augurs; praetor; head of the most extensive and powerful family in Rome; a war hero with a powerful military reputation

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“Then let us have Pompey the Great without his army,” countered Nepos.

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They soon established that Pompey had a force of eight well-equipped legions, with his personal headquarters encamped—at any rate the last time Nepos had seen him—south of Judea, a few hundred miles from the city of Petra.

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“I wondered if perhaps they came back with Metellus Nepos.”

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Then the tribune-elect Metellus Nepos demanded the floor.

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Nepos says that if the rebels in Etruria are as serious as we make out, Pompey himself should be brought home to deal with them.

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“Actually, I understand he favors withdrawing,” said Nepos.

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