his tunc Pompeius super: Corona, miles, equidem te dono libens, quia vindicasti laudem Romani imperi; sed exstillescant oculi sic inquit mei, turpe illud imitans ius iurandum militis, nisi tu abstulisti sarcinas nuper meas.
Then Pompey made this comment: Soldier, I take pleasure in presenting you with a crown, since you have upheld the honour of the Roman command; but may my eyes ooze away like this, he continued, imitating the unseemly gesture with which the soldier had accompanied his oath, if it wasnt you who carried off my baggage the other day.
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