regem Armeniae Tigranem, qui et per se magna cum populo Romano bella gesserat et infestissimum urbi nostrae Mithridatem Ponto pulsum viribus suis protexerat, in conspectu suo diutius iacere supplicem passus non est, sed benignis verbis recreatum diadema, quod abiecerat, capiti reponere iussit, certisque rebus imperatis in pristinum fortunae habitum restituit, aeque pulchrum esse iudicans et vincere reges et facere.
Tigranes, king of Armenia, had waged major wars against the Roman people on his own and protected with his power a sworn enemy of our city, Mithridates, when he was driven out of Pontus. Pompey did not let him lie before his eyes in supplication for long, but revived him with kindly words, told him to put the diadem, which he had discarded, back on his head, and after giving orders on certain points restored him to his former state of fortune. He thought it equally fine to conquer kings and to make them.
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