14. generī quondam suī: Pompey had married Julia, the daughter of Caesar, in 60 B.C. It was her death in 54 B.C. that tended to loosen the bond existing between them.
Ch. 22.
17. victus: Caesar conquered the royal forces on the banks of the Nile.
18. Alexandrīā: when Caesar set fire to the royal fleet, the flames consumed the great library of Alexandria, containing 400,000 volumes. In this fire some of the greatest literary treasures of antiquity perished.
Cleopatrae: the famous queen who proved to be the ruin of Antony, Bk. VII, 6, 7.
20. Pompēiō in auxilium: Eutropius seldom uses the double Dative; cf. Rōmānīs fuisset auxiliō, Bk. IV, 3.
22. vīcit aciē: it was after this battle that Caesar sent to the senate the famous message vēnī, vīdī, vīcī, ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’
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Ch. 23.
2. eī … dictātōrī: ‘while he was dictator’; dictātōrī is in apposition with eī.