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Browsing named entities in C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan). You can also browse the collection for Corfinium or search for Corfinium in all documents.
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C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 32 (search)
He then dismissed the council; and assembling the soldiers, put them in mind
of what advantage their steadiness and zeal had been to Caesar at Corfinium, and how serviceable
towards the conquest of the greatest part of Italy. " It was you," said he, "that gave
the example, and all the municipal towns soon followed: their submission to
Caesar was your work; and therefore it is not without reason
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 10 (search)
We have seen that L. Vibullius Rufus, Pompey's chief engineer, had fallen
twice into Caesar's hands, and been as often set at liberty; the first time
at Corfinium, the next in Spain. Having been therefore twice
indebted to him for his life, and being also much in Pompey's esteem, Caesar
thought him a proper person to negotiate between them. His instructions
were; "That it was now time for both to desist from their obstinacy, and lay
down their arms, without exposing themselves any more to the precarious
events of fortune. That the losses they had already sustained ought to serve
as lessons and cautions, and fill them with just apprehensions with regard
to the future. That Pompey had been forced to abandon Italy, had lost Sicily and Sardinia, the two Spains, with abou