[4] Compare Caesar’s account of these conditions, De Bello Civili, i. 10, with Cicero to Atticus, vii. 17.
[5] Between the Apennines and the Adriatic, about Ancona; in the line of Caesar’s march should he advance from Kimini.
[6] To Atticus, vii. 16.
[7] Ibid., vii. 21.
[8] “Balbus quidem major ad me scribit, nihil malle Caesarem, quam principe Pompeio sine metu vivere. Tu puto haec credis.”—To Atticus, viii. 9.
[9] To Atticus, viii. 3.
[10] To Atticus, viii. 11.
[11] “Judicavique te bello violari, contra cujus honorem, populi Romani beneficio concessum, inimici atque invidi niterentur. Sed ut eo tempore non modo ipse fautor dignitatis tuae fui, verum etiam caeteris auctor ad te adjuvandum, sic me nunc Pompeii dignitas vehementer movet,” etc.—Cicero to Caesar, enclosed in a letter to Atticus, ix. 11.
[12] Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 11.
[13] Pompey had for two years meditated on the course which he was now taking. Atticus had spoken of the intended flight from Italy as base. Cicero answers: “Hoc turpe Cnaeus noster biennio ante cogitavit: ita Sullaturit animus ejus, et diu proscripturit;” “so he apes Sylla and longs for a proscription.”—To Atticus, ix. 10.