nec ullum finem tam egregium certamen habuisset, nisi patriae voluntati auctoritas Pompeii adfuisset: filium enim et regem appellavit, et diadema sumere iussit, et in curuli sella considere coegit.
So noble a conflict would never have ended if Pompeys authority had not come to the aid of the paternal wish. For he addressed the son as king, told him to put on the diadem, and forced him to sit in the curule chair.
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