e battle_.]

[Footnote 11: /Labienus\, Caesar's most faithful and skillful
lieutenant in the Gallic War. On the outbreak of the Civil War, in
49 B.C., he deserted Caesar and joined Pompey. His defection caused
the greatest joy among the Pompeian party; but he disappointed the
expectations of his new friends, and never accomplished anything of
importance. He fought against his old commander in several battles
and was slain at the battle of Munda in Spain, 45 B.C.]

[Footnote 12: /Nolite existimare\, _don't think_.]

[Footnote 13: /proeliis\, Sec. 501.15.]

[Footnote 14: /citeriore Gallia\. This name is applied to Cisalpine
Gaul, or Gaul south of the Alps.]

[Footnote 15: /Haec\, obj. of /dixisset\.]

[Footnote 16: /Hoc idem\, obj. of /iuraverunt\.]

[Footnote 17: /animo\, Sec. 501.30.]

[Footnote 18: /praesidio castris\, Sec. 501.17.]

[Footnote 19: /Quod\, obj. of /animadvertit\.]

[Footnote 20: /aciem\, subj. of /procurrere\.]

[Footnote 21: /impetum\, obj. of /sustinere\.]

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LXXVI. THE TRIUMPH OF CAESAR

Pompeio amicisque eius superatis atque omnibus hostibus ubique victis,
Caesar imperator Romam rediit et [1]extra moenia urbis in campo Martio
castra posuit. Tum vero amplissimis honoribus adfectus est. Dictator
creatus est, et ei triumphus a senatu est decretus. [2]Quo die de Gallis
triumphum egit, tanta multitudo hominum in urbem undique confluxit [3]ut
omnia loca essent conferta. Templa patebant, arae fumabant, columnae
sertis ornatae erant. [4]Cum vero pompa urbem intraret, quantus hominum
fremitus ortus est! Primum per portam ingressi sunt senatus et
magistratus. Secuti sunt tibicines, signiferi, pedites laurea coronati
canentes: "Ecce Caesar nunc triumphat, qui subegit Galliam," et "Mille,
mille, mille, mille Gallos trucidavimus." Multi praedam captarum urbium
portabant, arma, omnia belli instrumenta. Secuti sunt equites, animosis
atque splendidissime ornatis equis vecti, inter quos Publius adulescens
fortissimus habebatur. Adducebantur tauri, arietes, [5]qui dis
immortalibus immolarentur. Ita longo agmine progrediens exercitus
[6]sacra via per forum in Capitolium perrexit.

Imperator ipse cum urbem intraret, undique laeto clamore multitudinis
salutatus est. Stabat in curru aureo quem quattuor albi equi vehebant.
Indutus [7]toga picta, altera manu habenas et lauream tenebat, altera
eburneum scept