"--_To
Atticus_, viii. 9.
[9] _To Atticus_, viii. 3.
[10] _To Atticus_, viii. 11.
[11] "Judicavique te bello violari, contra cujus honorem, populi Romani
beneficio concessum, inimici atque invidi niterentur. Sed ut eo
tempore non modo ipse fautor dignitatis tuae fui, verum etiam
caeteris auctor ad te adjuvandum, sic me nunc Pompeii dignitas
vehementer movet," etc.--_Cicero to Caesar, enclosed in a letter to
Atticus_, ix. 11.
[12] Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 11.
[13] Pompey had for _two years_ meditated on the course which he was
now taking. Atticus had spoken of the intended flight from Italy as
base. Cicero answers: "Hoc turpe Cnaeus noster biennio ante cogitavit:
ita Sullaturit animus ejus, et diu proscripturit;" "so he apes Sylla
and longs for a proscription."--_To Atticus_, ix. 10.
[14] _To Atticus_, viii. 13.
[15] Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 15.
[16] _To Atticus_, viii. 16.
[17] _To Atticus_, ix. 4.
[18] _Ibid_., ix. 6.
[19] _To Atticus_, ix. 7 and 9.
[20] _Ibid_.
[21] "Ita dies et noctes tanquam avis illa mare prospecto, evolare cupio."
[22] "Hunc primum mortalem esse, deinde etiam multis modis extingui posse
cogitabam."--_To Atticus_, ix. 10.
CHAPTER XXII.
[Sidenote: April B.C. 49.]
Pompey was gone, gone to cover the Mediterranean with fleets which were to
starve Italy, and to raise an army which was to bring him back to play
Sylla's game once more.
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