Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . ted himself with ServiliusIsauricus. To restore credit in Italy, which hadbeen terribly shaken by the Civil War, and to makeit plain to all that he was no wild revolutionist, hepassed a law of debtor and creditor, as a temporaryremedy for social disquietude. He recalled, by aseries of legislative enactments, a number of personswho had been exiled under the rule of Pompeius andthe Senate, and might now be useful to himself. Andthough he does not mention it, we know from othersources that he now fulfilled an old promise, andgave by
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . ted himself with ServiliusIsauricus. To restore credit in Italy, which hadbeen terribly shaken by the Civil War, and to makeit plain to all that he was no wild revolutionist, hepassed a law of debtor and creditor, as a temporaryremedy for social disquietude. He recalled, by aseries of legislative enactments, a number of personswho had been exiled under the rule of Pompeius andthe Senate, and might now be useful to himself. Andthough he does not mention it, we know from othersources that he now fulfilled an old promise, andgave by law the full citizenship to all free inhabitantsof Transpadane Gaul. These, and other enactmentswhich probably belong to the end of this year , will be considered in a subsequent He held his office only eleven When allfhe necessary business had been got throt^h, he left,apparently unwearied by a whole year of incessanttoil, for Brundisium, whither the army had been senton, and reached it before the last day of December. * B. C, iii., CHAPTER XVI. DYRRHACHIUM AND HOEVER would understandthe decisive campaign whichhas made the year 48 landmark in the worldshistory, must first grasp thesituation at its outset geo-graphically and done, he will be ableto pursue the story suffi-ciently in outline, withoutreference to many details which must be omitted inthis chapter. The third book of Caesars Civil Wars,if he is able to read it, will supply these omissions;and he will find no better reading in any militaryhistory, ancient or modern. Pompeius was in unrestricted command of thewhole eastern half of the Empire, with its militaryand naval resources. His fleets, drawn from Egypt 281
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