1. Sociī Rōmānōrum Pompēium, quī propter [= prope] erat, imperātōrem contrā Mithridātēn dēposcēbant, cuius adventū in Asiam impetūs hostium retardātōs [re- < tardus] esse intellegēbant.
2. Rōmānōs rogābant ut salūtem suam Pompēiō commendārent [= committerent].
3. Hoc eō magis cupiēbant quod sciēbant Pompēium esse māximā temperantiā [< temperāns], mānsuētūdine [= clēmentiā], hūmānitāte [< hūmānus].
4. Ita ille ā cēterīs imperātōribus differēbat [= dissimilis erat].
5. Asia tam opīma [< opēs] ac fertilis est ut ūbertāte [< ūber] agrōrum et varietāte frūctuum [= frūgum] et magnitūdine pāstiōnis [< pāscere] cēterīs terrīs antecellat.
6. Multae mercēs ex Asiā exportantur.
7. Sed cum hostēs appropinquant, etiam sī nōndum irruptiō [< irrumpere] facta est, pecua [= pecudēs] relinquuntur, agrī cultūra [< colere] dēseritur, nāvigātiō cessat.
8. Ergō vectīgālia ex decimā [1/10 frūgum] et ex scrīptūrā [< scrībere: mercēde prō pāstiōne] āmittuntur.
9. Necesse est eōs quī vectīgālia pēnsitant [= pendent], et pūblicānōs [< pūblicus], quī vectīgālia exercent [= administrant] atque exigunt [= exposcunt], nōn modo calamitāte, sed etiam metū calamitātis līberāre.
10. Ūnā excursiōne [< excurrere] equitātūs hostium perbrevī [= brevissimō] tempore tōtīus annī vectīgal auferrī potest.
11. Pūblicānī, quī magnās familiās habent in agrīs et in portibus et in cūstōdiīs [< cūstōs], Rōmānīs frūctuī et ūtilitātī [< ūtilis] sunt.
12. Multī cīvēs Rōmānī gnāvī [= impigrī] et industriī in Asiā negōtiantur [< negōtium] aut illīc pecūniās magnās collocātās habent, quōrum ratiō habenda est [= quibus cōnsulendum est].
13. Nōn semper beātissimus est quī diūtissimē [sup < diū] vīvit.