Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . iolent and the water poured so fastinto the vessel that Caesar, though with reluctance,was obliged to permit the pilot to put back. When hereturned to the camp, the soldiers met him in crowds,complaining loudly that he had not enough confidencein them to be assured of victory by their aid alone, andthat, in his distrust of their support, he had exposedhimself to such peril. Soon after this Antony arrived with the troopsfrom Brundisium, and Caesar in high spirits then offeredbattle to Pompey. His rival was strongly encam
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . iolent and the water poured so fastinto the vessel that Caesar, though with reluctance,was obliged to permit the pilot to put back. When hereturned to the camp, the soldiers met him in crowds,complaining loudly that he had not enough confidencein them to be assured of victory by their aid alone, andthat, in his distrust of their support, he had exposedhimself to such peril. Soon after this Antony arrived with the troopsfrom Brundisium, and Caesar in high spirits then offeredbattle to Pompey. His rival was strongly encamped,and was abundantly supplied \^ith provisions both byway of sea and land, while Caesar from the first had butlittle food, and later on suffered from great soldiers, however, found relief from their hunger ina root which grew in the neighbouring fields, andwhich they prepared in milk. Sometimes they madea kind of bread from it, and throwing it amongstPompeys outposts declared that they would maintainthe siege while the earth continued to produce C^SAR AND THE PILOT. JULIUS C^SAR 803 Pompey would not suffer this bread to be shownnor these speeches to be reported in his camp, for hismen were already discouraged. They shuddered, in-deed, at the hardihood of Caesars troops, who seemedas insensible to fatigue as so many wild around Pompeys entrenchments frequentlytook place, and in all save one Caesar had the advan-tage. That one, however, promised disaster for hiscause, for his troops were driven back in such hurriedflight that his camp was in danger of being himself headed the attack, and none couldstand before him. He drove Caesars troops upontheir own lines in utter confusion, and their trencheswere filled with dead. Caesar ran to stay the flight, but it was beyond hispower to rally the fugitives. He seized hold of thestandards in order to recall his soldiers to a sense ofdiscipline, but the standard-bearers then cast thei
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