Plut. Pomp. 24.6

Life of Pompey 24.6

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Pompey

24.6

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

6But they heaped most insults upon the Romans, even going up from the sea along their roads and plundering there, and sacking the neighbouring villas. Once, too, they seized two praetors, Sextilius and Bellinus, in their purple-edged robes, and carried them away, together with their attendants and lictors. They also captured a daughter of Antonius, a man who had celebrated a triumph, as she was going into the country, and exacted a large ransom for her. But their crowning insolence was this.