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argument
I. Different opinions in the senate in relation to Caesar’s letter. III. The origin and causes of the opposition formed against him. IV. The senate’s severe decree, and flight of Caesar’s friends. V. War against Caesar resolved on. VI. Caesar harangues his troops. VII. Pompey sends proposals of peace. VIII. Caesar’s answer IX. Pompey sends proposals a second time. X. Which not pleasing Caesar, he prepares for war. XI. Caesar makes himself master of Iguvium and Auximum. XII. Which so alarms his enemies at Rome, that they hastily quit the city, and retire to Capua. XIII. Caesar, by his expedition, obliges many of the towns in Italy to submit. XXIII. Pompey, after the reduction of Corfinium by Caesar, withdraws with his troops to Brundusium. XXIV. Caesar besieges him there. XXVI. He escapes by sea, after which the town surrenders. XXVIII. Caesar cannot pursue him for want of a fleet. XXIX. Valerius and Curio, partisans of Caesar, drive Cotta from Sardinia, and Cato from Sicily. Varus compels Tubero to desist from his design upon Africa. XXX. Caesar’s speech to the senate. XXXI. Which producing no effect, he sets out for Transalpine Gaul. XXXII. The people of Marseilles shut their gates against Caesar. XXXIV. Who commands Brutus and Trebonius to besiege the place. XXXV. Fabius sent before into Spain. XXXIX. Caesar follows, and comes up with Afranius and Petreius at Lerida. XLI. A skirmish, with almost equal advantage on both sides. XLVI. A sudden storm having broke down his bridges, Caesar is shut up between two rivers. XLVIII. And reduced to great straits for want of provisions. LI. He extricates himself at length, and surprises the enemy’s foragers. LII. Brutus defeats the people of Marseilles in a sea-fight. LIII. Caesar obtains the superiority near Lerida. LIV. Many states declare for him. LV. Afranius and Petreius remove towards Celtiberia. LVI. Caesar pursues them with his cavalry. LVII. Then drawing out the legions, continues to urge them in their retreat. LXIV. He cuts off their provisions. LXVI. Afraniius and Petreius’s men talk with Caesar’s about a surrender. LXVII. Petreius interrupts the conference. LXVIII. And obliges the soldiers to take an oath of fidelity to their generals. LXX. Who, finding both their provisions and forage intercepted, resolve to return to Lerida. LXXI. Caesar follows, and greatly molests them in their march. LXXIII. At length, water, forage, and every thing failing them, they are forced to sue for peace, and accept of Caesar’s terms.
