Indeed up to
 this time your generals have been, contending with the king so as to carry off tokens of victory
 rather than actual victory. Lucius Sulla has triumphed, Lucius Murena has triumphed over
 Mithridates, two most gallant men, and most consummate generals; but yet they have triumphed in
 such a way that he, though routed and defeated, was still king. Not but what praise is to be
 given to those generals for what they did. Pardon must be conceded to them for what they left
 undone; because the republic recalled Sulla from that war into Italy , and Sulla recalled Murena.