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m does not appear to be identified with certainty. Some writers make it the Fiumicino. Ariminum was not in Caesar's province, and Plutarch must have known that, as appears from his narrative. Kaltwasser thinks that he may mean that it was originally a Gallic town, which was true.] [Footnote 520: In Plutarch's time the system of naming the Romans was greatly confused, and he extended the confusion to earlier times. C. Asinius Pollio, who was with Caesar at the Rubico and at the battle of Pharsalia, wrote a history of the Civil Wars. He was also a poet. (Horatius, _Od._ ii. 1.) His work, as we may collect from c. 46, furnished materials for anecdotes about Caesar.] [Footnote 521: This dream according to Suetonius (_Caesar_, c. 7) and Dion Cassius (41. c. 24) he had at Cades (Cadiz) in Spain during his quaestorship. The time of the dream is not unimportant, if the interpretation of it was that he was destined to have the dominion of the world. Caesar has not recorded his dream. Sulla recorded his dreams. He was superstitious and cruel. Caesar was not cruel, and there is no proof that he was superstitious.] [Footnote 522: Pompeius went to Capua, where he thought of making a stand, but he soon moved on to Brundisium. On the confusion in the city see Dion Cassius (41. c. 5-9).] [Footnote 523: The author of the Eighth book of the Gallic War (c. 52) speaks of Labienus being solicited by Caesar's enemies. Caesar had put him over Gaul south of the Alps. In the Civil War, Book 1, he is merely mentioned as having fortified Cingulum at his own cost. Cicero (_Ad Attic._ vii. 7) says that he was indebted to Caesar for his wealth. His defection is mentioned by Cicero several times, and it gave a temporary encouragement to the party of Pompeius. (_Ad Attic._ vi. 12, 13.) Labienus joined Pompeius and the Consuls at Teanum in Campania on the 23rd of January.] [Footnote 524: Corfinium three miles from the river Aternus. Caesar (_Civil War_, i. 16-23) describes the siege of Corfinium. L. Domitius Ahenobarbus was treated kindly by Caesar. He afterwards went to Massalia and defended it against Caesar. This most excellent citizen, as Cicero calls him, met the death he so well deserved at the battle of Pharsalia, and as Cicero says (_Phillipp._ ii. 29), at the hand of M. Antonius.] [Footnote 525: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 62.] [Footnote 526: From this it appears that the Life of Pompeius was written after the Life of Caesar
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