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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
ra g
During the whole time of his seclusion at
Capri, twice only he made an effort to visit Rome.
Once he came in a galley as far as the gardens near the Naumachia, but placed guards along the banks of the Tiber, to keep off all who should offer to come to meet him.
The second time he travelled on the Appian way,
So called from Appius Claudius, the Censor, one of Tiberius's ancestors, who constructed it. It took a direction southward from Rome, through Campania to 'Brundusium, starting from what is the present Porta di San Sebastiano, from which the road to Naples takes its departure.
as far as the seventh mile-stone from the city, but he immediately returned, without entering it, having only taken a view of the walls at a distance.
For what reason he did not disembark in his first excursion, is uncertain; but in the last, he was deterred from entering the city by a prodigy.
He was in the habit of diverting himself with a snake, and upon going to feed it with his own hand, according to cu
He bids them reach
In ten days' march Brundusium, and recall
From old Tarentum and from Hydrus lone
His navy, and from Leucas' point remote,
And the Salapian marsh where Sipus lies
By rich Garganus, jutting from the shore
In huge escarpment that divides the waves
Of Hadria; on each hand, his seaward slopes
Buffeted by the winds; or Auster borne
From sweet Apulia, or the sterner blast
Of Boreas rushing from Dalmatian strands.
But Caesar entered safe without a guard
Rome, trembling, taught to ser eheld the wonted fires
Blaze from his altars on the festal night.
Then through Apulia's fallows, which her hinds
Left all untilled, to sluggish weeds a prey
Passed Caesar onward, swifter than the fire
Of heaven, or tigress dam: until he reached
Brundusium's winding ramparts, built of old
By Cretan colonists. There icy winds
Constrained the billows, and his trembling fleet
Feared for the winter storms nor dared the main.
But Caesar's soul burned at the moments lost
For speedy battle, nor could br
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage of Ingulphus Abbat of Croiland unto
Jerusalem , performed (according to Florentius Wigorniensis ) in the yeere of our Lord, 1064, and described
by the said Ingulphus himselfe about the conclusion of
his briefe Historie. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The woorthy voiage of Richard the first, K. of England
into Asia , for the recoverie of Jerusalem out of the
hands of the Saracens , drawen out of the booke of Acts
and Monuments of the Church of England , written by
M. John Foxe . (search)