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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 34 (search)
Of his subsequent proceedings I shall give a cursory detail, in the order in which they occurred.
A.U.C. 70
He took possession of Picenum, Umbria, and Etruria; and having obliged Lucius Domitius, who had been tumultuously nominated his successor, and held Corsinium with a garrison, to surrender, and dismissed him, he marched along the coast of the Upper Sea, to Brundusium, to which place the consuls and Pompey were fled with the intention of crossing the sea as soon as possible.
After vain attempts, by all the obstacles he could oppose, to prevent their leaving the harbour, he turned his steps towards
Rome, where he appealed to the senate on the present state of public affairs; and then set out for Spain, in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro; declaring amongst his friends, before he set forward, "That he was going against an
army without a general, and should return thence against
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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 30 (search)
Only once in his life did he take an active part in military affairs, and then not from any set purpose, but during his journey to Mevania, to see the grove and river of Clitumnus.
Mevania, a town in Umbria. Its present name is Bevagna. The
Clitumnus is a river in the same country, celebrated for the breed of white cattle, which feed in the neighbouring pastures.
Being recommended to recruit a body of Batavians, who attended him, he resolved upon an expedition into Germany.
Immediately he drew together several legions, and auxiliary forces from all quarters, and made every where new levies with the utmost rigour.
Collecting supplies of all kinds, such as never had been assembled upon the like occasion, he set forward on his march, and pursued it sometimes with so much haste and precipitation, that the pretorian cohorts were obliged, contrary to custom, to pack their standards on horses or mules, and so follow him.
At other times, he would march so slow and luxuriously, that he was car
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Vespasianus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)