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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge), THE THIRTEENTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE THIRTEENTH PHILIPPIC., chapter 8 (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, He describes a certain journey of his from Rome
to Brundusium with great pleasantry. (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 2, He sets the conveniences of a country retirement in opposition to the troubles of a life
in town. (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 24 (search)
Pompey, having intelligence of what passed at Corfinium, retreated from Luceria to Canusium, and from thence to Brundusium. He ordered all the new
levies to join him, armed the shepherds and slaves, furnished them with
horses, and formed a body of about three hundred cavalry. M some with the foot,otherswith the horse. Cn. Magius of Cremona, Pompey's chief engineer,
being taken on his way to Brundusium, was brought to Caesar,
who sent him back to Pompey with this message: "That as he had not yet
obtained an interview, his design was to come to Brundusium, there to confer with
him in relation to the common safety; because they soon would be able to
despatch, in a personal treaty, what, if managed by the intervention of
others, could not be hindered from running into a
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 25 (search)
Having dismissed him with these instructions, he arrived before Brundusium with six legions, three
of which were composed of veteran soldiers, and the rest of new levies drawn
together upon his ma d the consuls were gone to Dyrrhachium with great part of the army,
and that Pompey remained in Brundusium with twenty cohorts. Nor
was it certainly known whether he continued there with design to keep
possession of Brundusium, that he might be master
of the whole Adriatic Sea, the extreme parts of Italy, and the country of Greece, in order to make war on both sides
the gulf; o footing in Italy he resolved to deprive him of the
advantages he might receive from the port of Brundusium. The works he contrived
for this purpose were as follows: He carried on a mole on either side t
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 26 (search)
Against these preparations, Pompey made use of several large ships which he
found in the port of Brundusium: and having fi ted them
with towers of three stories, which he filled with a great number of engines
and darts, let them loose upon Caesar's floats, to break through the
staccado, and interrupt the works. Thus daily skirmishes happened with
darts, arrows, and slings, at a distance. Amidst these hostilities, Caesar's
thoughts were still bent upon peace; and though he could not but wonder that
Magius, whom he had sent with proposals to Pompey, was not yet returned with
an answer; and even saw his designs and undertakings retarded by his
frequent offers of this kind, he nevertheless still persevered in these
peaceable resolutions. Accordingl
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 27 (search)
Caesar having spent nine days about his works, had now half finished the
staccado, when the ships employed in the first embarkation, being sent back
by the consuls from Dyrrhachium, returned to Brundusium. Pompey, either alarmed
at Caesar's works, or because from the first he had determined to relinquish Italy, no sooner saw the transports
arrive, than he prepared to carry over the rest of his forces. And the
better to secure himself against Caesar, and prevent his troops from
breaking into the town during the embarkation, he walled up the gates,
barricaded the streets, or cut ditches across them, filled with pointed
stakes, and covered with hurdles and earth. The two streets which led to the
port and which he left open for the passage of his men, were fortified with
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 28 (search)
The people of Brundusium, provoked by the
affronts they had received from Pompey, and the insults of his soldiers,
wished well to Caesar's cause; and having notice of Pompey's intended
departure while the soldiers were busied with the care of embarking, found
means to signify it from the tops o their houses. Caesar, upon this
intelligence, ordered scaling ladders to be prepared, and the soldiers to
repair to their arms, that he might not lose any opportunity of acting
Pompey weighed anchor a little before night, and gave the signal for
recalling the soldiers that were upon the walls, who repaired with all
expedition to the ships prepared for them. Meantime the scaling ladders are
applied to the walls, and Caesar's troops enter the town. But bei
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 30 (search)
He determined, therefore, to lay aside, for the present, the design of
pursuing Pompey, and turn all his thoughts towards Spain. He ordered the magistrates of the
municipal towns to assemble all the vessels they could, and send them to Brundusium. He sent Valerius, one
of his lieutenants, into Sardinia, with one legion, and the
propretor Curio into Sicily with three, ordering him, as soon
as he had mastered Sicily, to pass over with his army into Africa.
M. Cotta commanded in Sardinia; M. Cato in Sicily; and Africa had fallen by lot to Tubero. The
inhabitants of Cagliari, hearing of Valerius's
commission, of their own accord, before he had left Italy, drove Cotta out of their city; who
terrified by the unanimous opposition he met with from the province, fled
in
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 2 (search)