With the death of sulla in 79b.c. civil war looked imminent. When Lepidus revolted against the roman senate the immediate decree of senatus ultimatum was pasted giving pompey the powers of a dictator. Pompey defeated lepidus only to be faced with a new problem Quintus sertorius, who was general of the roman division in Spain. "As more Roman troops joined his cause, he organized an alternative Roman governmentwith a 'senate',preatators and quaestors, but 'he longed to return home from exile." Many of the romans who had joined sertorius after lepidus' revolt became "foolishly resentful of his authority." Perpena carried out a conspiracy and murdered sertorius. He in turn was defeated and murdered by pompey, which brought the war to an end. Pompey gra

"thought himself extremely lucky to have the opportunity of passing this particular measure, since if some other statesman had anticipated him in this, he could have never have found an equally good way of expressing his thanks to the people for their goodwill which they had shown him."

In 67b.c. the food supply of Rome was menaced by raids carried out by cilician and cretan pirates. A tribune, Aulus Gabinius proposed Lex Gabinia, a special command of three years duration be made to suppress the pirate threat. The general would be given authority over the Mediterranean and the territories inland for fifty miles. He would be allowed to raise troops, to appoint a staff of legates and to raise funding in addition to the initial grant. Pompey was given this command and within three months he had cleared both the western and eastern basins of the Mediterranean of the pirates and destroyed their fleet and basses. Following this success pompey was given command in the east in the war against mithrates.

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