Pompey accordingly went to Gaul, where he obtained new victories, and gained new and higher honors than before.
[Sidenote: An example.] [Sidenote: Pompey divorces his wife.] [Sidenote: He marries Sylla's daughter-in-law.] These, and various anecdotes which the ancient historians relate, would lead us to form very favorable ideas of Pompey's character.

Some other circumstances, however, which occurred, seem to furnish different indications.

For example, on his return to Rome, some time after the events above related, Sylla, whose estimation of Pompey's character and of the importance of his services seemed continually to increase, wished to connect him with his own family by marriage.

He accordingly proposed that Pompey should divorce his wife Antistia, and marry Aemilia, the daughter-in-law of Sylla.

Aemilia was already the wife of another man, from whom she would have to be taken away to make her the wife of Pompey.