9. By the lavish but unconstrained suffrages of the people,
Pompey had obtained a military command scarcely inferior to
that of Augustus. Among the extraordinary acts of power
executed by the former we may remark the foundation of
twenty-nine cities, and the distribution of three or four
millions sterling to his troops. The ratification of his
acts met with some opposition and delays in the senate. See
Plutarch, Appian, Dion Cassius, and the first book of the
epistles to Atticus.