The usage had obtained the strength of law, but the General was not on that account debarred from city employment during the interval.

The city must be taken out to him instead of his coming into the city.

Pompey was so great on his return from his Mithridatic victories that the Senate went out to sit with him in the suburbs, as he could not sit with it within the walls.

We find him taking part in these Clodian discussions.

Cicero at once writes of him to Athens with evident dissatisfaction.