Marcus Perperna Veiento

So they gave it to him, which made it one more exception.

He fought Sertorius for years, and it was ugly, a slow war, and in the end, Sertorius was only stopped when his own lieutenant, Perperna, murdered him around 72 BC.

Pompey claimed the win anyway and took the credit, because that's how you built a career by this point, by getting the result, whatever the process looked like.

Then came Spartacus in 71 BC.