[...], while Pompey was still carrying on war with the kings in Pontus and Armenia, [...]
Edition :
Plutarch Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar, ed. E. H. Warmington, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 99), Cambridge - London 1967 (first ed. 1919).
Notes :
The critical situation in Rome because of revolutionary behavior is described. The war is the reason why there was not enough power to cope with the situation.