Plutarch, Pomp.  42.3-4  (ca. A.D. 100): Having settled the affairs of the east and made what arrangements seemed good to him, Pompeius started on his journey home. He now traveled with much more pomp and ceremony than before. For example, when he came to Mitylene, he gave the city its freedom for the sake of Theophanes, and he was a spectator of the traditional competition held there for the poets who, this time, had only one theme, which was the exploits of Pompeius. He was very pleased with the theater itself and had sketches and plans of it made for him, with the intention of building one like it in Rome, only larger and more magnificent. (I. Scott-Kilvert, trans.)