Cato assailed him bitterly, because when he himself had often foretold that Caesar's power and his [p. 215] rise to fame boded no good to the democracy, Pompey had taken the opposite side; whereupon Pompey replied, ‘Your words were more prophetic, but my actions were more friendly.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Pompey, chap. lx. (651 E); Life of Cato Minor, chap. lii. (787 D).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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