Gaul and the West stood firm; but the horsemen of the Parthians were seen in Syria and on the western shore of Asia. […] The extended commands of Pompeius in the West and in the East furnished scope for political patronage as well as for military experience. […] In the West, in Africa and throughout Asia, towns, provinces and kings were bound to the imperator of the Roman People by personal ties of allegiance. […] In Spain young Pompeius, a fugitive after the Battle of Munda, conducted guerrilla warfare with some success against the Caesarian governors in the far West. […] For the present, the other provinces of the West were a counterbalance to D.