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  • He even thought of a phrase for Gabinius to deliver, which afterwards became quite famous: “Pompey the Great was not born for himself alone, but for Rome!”

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • He even thought of a phrase for Gabinius to deliver, which afterwards became quite famous: “Pompey the Great was not born for himself alone, but for Rome!”

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • "Gabinius," roared Servius, in impotent fury, "what are you doing?

    A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

  • We found the great man drinking in his bachelor den with his old army comrade and fellow Picenian Aulus Gabinius.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • One was concerned with the allocation of consular provinces for the following year and awarded Macedonia to Calpurnius Piso, and Syria I think it was to Aulus Gabinius.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • But now Gabinius was back in Rome—just as ambitious, a hundred times as rich, and determined to become consul.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • “The Hasmonaean royal house has spelled nothing but trouble, ask anyone from the late Aulus Gabinius on down.”

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • But the Metulans, who had captured siege engines and apparatus from Aulus Gabinius years before, promptly used their excellent Roman spades and shovels to undermine the mound; riddled with tunnels, it fell apart.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He was in Syria years ago when Gabinius was its governor, so he must be aware how obstreperous the Jews are.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Posthumia, wife to Sergius Sulpitius; to Lollia, wife to Gabinius; to Tertulla, of Crassus; to Mutia, Pompey's wife, and I know not how many besides: and well he might, for, if all be true that I have read, he had a license to lie with whom he list.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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