Neque tamen senatus provinciam invitus dederat, quippe foedum hominem a re publica procul esse volebat; simul quia boni complures praesidium in eo putabant et iam tum potentia Pompei formidulosa erat.
The senate, however, had not unwillingly given him the province, for it wished to remove the detestable fellow to a distance from the seat of government and at the same time, because a great many good men thought they had in him a safeguard against Pompey, whose power was even then becoming formidable.
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