55.
He himself set out for Italy; where he was
informed on his arrival, that the two legions sent home by him, and which by the
senate's decree, should have been sent to the Parthian war, had
been delivered over to Pompey, by Caius Marcellus the
consul, and were retained in Italy. Although from
this transaction it was evident to every one that war was designed against Caesar, yet he resolved to submit to any thing, as long
as there were hopes left of deciding the dispute in an equitable manner, rather
than to have recourse to arms.
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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