If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.
It's only hubris if I fail.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.