Quod quidem fortuitum ludibrium quasi hereditarium ad eum penetravit: nam pater quoque eius eo usque Menogenis coqui sui similis esse visus est ut vir et armis praepotens et ferox animo sordidum eius nomen repellere a se non valuerit.
This trick of chance came to Pompey as though by inheritance. For his father too was thought to resemble Menogenes, his cook, so closely that, powerful in arms and bold of spirit as he was, he could not keep the fellows base name away from himself.
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