and defeated a large Greek army in Egypt; while Tigranes and Mithridates never recovered from the overthrow they sustained from Lucullus.  Mithridates was so crushed and broken in strength that he never dared to march out of his entrenchments and fight with Pompeius, but retired to Bosporus and died there; while Tigranes of his own accord came into the presence of Pompeius naked and unarmed, and cast down his royal diadem at his feet, not flattering him for the victories which he had won, but for those for which Lucullus had triumphed.  He was well pleased to be allowed to resume the ensigns of royalty, and thereby admitted that he had before been deprived of them.  He, therefore, is to be held the better general, as he is the better wrestler, who leaves his enemy weakest for his successor to deal with.  Moreover, Kimon found the power of the Persians impaired, and their spirit broken by the series of defeats which they had sustained from Themistokles, Pausanias, and Leotychides, and was easily able to conquer men whose hearts were already vanquished:  whereas Lucullus met Tigranes when he was full of courage, and in the midst of an unbroken career of victory.  As for numbers, one cannot compare the multitudes who were opposed to Lucullus with the troops who were defeated by Kimon.  Thus it appears that from whatever point of view we regard them, it is hard to say which was the better man, especially as heaven seems to have dealt so kindly with them both, in telling the one what to do, and the other what to avoid:  so that it seems to appear by the testimony of the gods themselves, that they were both men of a noble and godlike nature.

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