Meeting of Lucullus and Pompey
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their conference
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Pompey (Greek)
Accordingly, when the lictors of Lucullus saw that Pompey’s laurels were withered and altogether faded, they took some of their own, which were fresh, and with them wreathed and decorated his rods.
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Lucullus
Encounter between Lucullus and Pompey in a Galatian village, including the laurel-sharing gesture and their subsequent estrangement.
However, their conference resulted in an equitable agreement, but they left it still more estranged from one another.
Lucullus was the elder man, but Pompey’s prestige was the greater, because he had conducted more campaigns, and celebrated two triumphs.
When the lictors of Lucullus noticed this, they considerately gave Pompey’s lictors some of their own laurel, which was fresh and green.
Pompey
The tense meeting in Galatia between Pompey and Lucullus, marked by omens, courtesy, and mutual recrimination.
Accordingly, when the lictors of Lucullus saw that Pompey’s laurels were withered and altogether faded, they took some of their own, which were fresh, and with them wreathed and decorated his rods.
but in the conferences which followed they could come to no fair or reasonable agreement, nay, they actually abused each other, Pompey charging Lucullus with love of money, and Lucullus charging Pompey with love of power, and they were with difficulty separated by their friends.
Lucullus expostulated through his friends, and it was decided that they should have a meeting;