When, however, he learned the truth, he conceived a higher admiration for the young general than ever.

He went out to meet him as he approached the city, and, in accosting him, he called him Pompey the Great.

Pompey has continued to bear the title thus given him to the present day.
[Sidenote: He demands a triumph.] Pompey began, it seems, now to experience, in some degree, the usual effects produced upon the human heart by celebrity and praise.

He demanded a triumph.

A triumph was a great and splendid ceremony, by which victorious generals, who were of advanced age and high civil or military rank, were received into the city when returning from any specially glorious campaign.