Capitolo 58
one of the principal allurements that conducted him/it to embark in the enterprise.
The dangers of the desert constituted one of the charms that did the
so attractive consignment. He put him/it, therefore to the head of
his/her troop of cavalry, and it put in advance street through the sands of
Gabinius, to take Pelusium in order so to open a way for the principal
the army's body in Egypt. Ptolemy accompanied Antony. Gabinius was
follows.
With all of his/her guilts, to call them from any severers calls, Mark Antony
some great excellences possessed of character. He was ardent, but
then he was fresh, picked, and shrewd; and there was a certain
frank and virile generosity that continually shows him in his/her behavior
and character that made him/it a great favorite among his/her men. He was to
this duration twenty-eight years old verse, of a tall and virile form, and of
an expressive and intellectual throw of expression. Its forehead was
stop, his/her aquiline nose and his/her eyes full of the vivacity and the life. He was
gotten used to dress in a very simple and happy-go-lucky way, and he supposed
an air of the maximum familiarity and the liberty in his/her relationships with his
soldiers. Him if it would unite them to their sports, jokes with them, and
good-naturedly receives their jokes in return; and he/she takes his/her meals,
being standing with them around their ill-mannered tables, in the open field. This way
the habits of relationships with his/her men in a commander of character to the agenda
you/he/she would have been fatal to his/her predominance on them; but in Mark Antony
case, these that frank and family manners is only seemed to make the soldier
genius and the intellectual power that he possessed the more
evident and the admired more universally.
Antony conducted his/her troop of horsemen through the desert in a very sure
and fast way, and it arrived in front of Pelusium. The city was not
him prepared to withstand him/it to. He immediately surrendered, and the whole garrison
you fall in his/her hands as prisoners of war. Ptolemy required that them