Kitap 2
12.86
What a pitiful tomb is here for one who had temples in abundance.Plutarch gives a pathetic account of Pompey’s funeral, which was performed by his freedman Philippus and one old Roman who had served as a soldier under him, and who was now living in exile and poverty. Such, says another historian, was the departure from life of a most excellent and illustrious man, after three consulships and as many triumphs, who had ruled the whole world and had reached a position above which it was not possible to rise, in the 58th year of his age and on the day before his birthday. So greatly had fortune been at strife with herself in his case that he who had been in want of earth to conquer was now in want of enough for a grave. (Velleius, ii. 53.) Dio Cassius (lxix. 11), describing the Emperor Hadrian’s tour in the East A.D. 122, says that while he was passing from Judea to Egypt he offered a funeral sacrifice for Pompey, on which occasion the following verse escaped him: What a pitiful tomb is here for one who had temples in abundance. He also rebuilt the tomb that had fallen into ruin. This is not inconsistent with Appian’s narrative.
