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105 “Caesar had long ago decided” Plut Caes XXVIII 1–2
106 “My one consolation” Att 95 (V 2)
107 “When we arrived” Att 94 (V 1)
108 “I leave him in the most patriotic frame of mind” Att 100 (V 7)
109 Pompey “is apt to say one thing, and think another” Fam 77 (VIII 1)
“The creatures are in remarkably short supply” Fam 2 (II 11)
“When all’s said, … this isn’t the kind of thing” Att 108 (V 15)
110 “forlorn and, without exaggeration.… In a phrase” Att 109 (V 16)
111 “Malicious persons” Fam 69 (III 6)
“Your army is hardly capable” Fam 83 (VIII 5)
112 “My best resource is winter” Att III (V 18)
113 “On October 13 we made a great slaughter” Att 113 (V 20)
“A merry Saturnalia was had by all” Att 113 (V 20)
114 “Our Consuls are paragons” Fam 88 (VIII 6)
“What he wants” Att 355 (XIV 1)
115 “I shall be sorry to have incurred his displeasure” Att 115 (VI 1)
“He is apt in his letters to me” Att 115 (VI 1)
“My dear Atticus” Att 116 (VI 2)
“I shall keep him on a tighter rein” Att 113 (V 20)
116 “Let me say only one thing” Att 116 (VI 2)
“He does seem very fond of his mother” Att 116 (VI 2)
“There’s something” Att 118 (VI 4)
117 “Here I am in my province” Att 121 (VI 6)
“We all find him charming” Att 126 (VII 3)
Chapter 10—“A Strange Madness”: 50–48 BC
The main sources for these years are Appian, Dio Cassius and Cicero’s correspondence, together with Caesar, Plutarch and Suetonius.
118 “From the day I arrived in Rome” Fam 146 (XVI 12)
“Pompey the Great’s digestion” Fam 94 (VIII 13)
“great quarrels ahead” Fam 97 (VIII 14)
119 “There looms ahead a tremendous contest” Att 124 (VII 1)
“While I am not cowardly” Quintil XII I 17
120 Caesar’s “army is incomparably superior” Fam 97 (VIII 14)
121 “He at once sent a few troops” Suet I 31
122 “Since nearly all Italy” Plut Pomp LXI 1–3
“thoroughly cowed” Att 177 (IX 10)
123 “I have decided on the spur of the moment” Att 133 (VII 10)
“He scorns me” Att 179 (IX 12)
“It looks to me” Att 141 (VII 17)
124 “I am sure you find” Att 164 (VIII 14)
“How utterly down he is” Att 145 (VII 21)
125 “Our Cnaeus is marvelously covetous of despotism” Att 174 (IX 7)
126 “I was made anxious before” Att 172 (IX 6)
“Nothing in [Pompey’s] conduct” Att 177 (IX 10)
Cicero’s meeting with Caesar Att 187 (IX 18)
127 “you have disapproved” Att 199B (X 83)
128 “I cannot believe that you mean to go abroad” Att 199a (X 8a)
“Do you think that if Spain is lost” Att 199 (X 8)
129 “I hope my plan won’t involve any risk” Att 208 (X 16)
“You ask me about the war news” Att 214 (XI 4a)
130 “I’ll make you win” Fam 156 (VIII 17)
131 “To go against him now” Fam 153 (VIII 16)
“He has no idea how to win a war” Suet I 36
“Consult your own best interests” Fam 157 (IX 9)
132 “I came to regret my action” Fam 183 (VII 3)
133 “[There] could be seen artificial arbors” Bell civ III 96
“They insisted on it” Suet I 30
“Excellent, if we were fighting jackdaws” Plut Cic XXXVIII 5
Chapter 11—Pacifying Caesar: 48–45 BC
The same sources as for the preceding chapter, with the addition of speeches by Cicero.
134 “He expressed himself pretty strongly on these points” Att 218 (XI 7)
135 “As to Pompey’s end” Att 217 (XI 6)
“It is the most unbelievable thing” Att 219 (XI 8)
136 “Her own beauty” Plut Ant XXVII 2ff.
137 “Came, saw, conquered” Plut Caes L 2
“Her own courage, thoughtfulness” Att 228 (XI 17)
138 “I must ask you to get me out of here” Att 230 (XI 18)
“quite a handsome one” Fam 171 (XIV 23)
“Kindly see that everything is ready” Fam 173 (XIV 20)
139 “I think the victory of either” Fam 182 (V 21)
140 “I decline to be under an obligation” Plut Cat LXVI 2
“The gods favored the winning side” Luc I 128
141 “It’s a problem for Archimedes” Att 240 (XII 4)
142 “As for our present times” Fam 177 (IX 2)
“Like the learned men of old” Fam 177 (IX 2)
“I have set