[917] Cæsar, De Bello Civili, I. 6, 30.—Cicero, Epist. Familiar., V. 20; XVI. 12; Epist. ad Atticum, X. 16.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 34.
[918] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., XV. 11.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 34.—Cæsar, De Bello Civili, I. 7.
[919] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 36.
[920] The “Commentaries,” it is true, say that the tribunes of the people rejoined Cæsar at Rimini: but it was more probably at Ravenna, as reported by Appian (II. 33), or in his camp between Ravenna and Rimini.
[921] The words of the proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon on landing in the gulf of Juan in 1815.
[922] Suetonius, Cæsar, 68.
[923] Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 12.
[924] “Cæsar has received a terrible blow: T. Labienus, who had so much influence in his army, has refused to become his accomplice: he has left him and has joined us. This example will have numerous imitators.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., XVI. 12.)—“Labienus considers Cæsar as utterly unable to maintain the struggle.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 16.)
[925] “Is that honourable ... (in Cæsar) to think of nothing but abolition of debts, calling back exiles, and so many other outrages?” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 11.)
[926] “A power after the manner of Sylla, that is what Pompey desires, and what all those wish who surround him.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VIII. 11.)