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dramatic and additional interest to the account of the crossing of the
Rubicon, must have gone away for every reader to decide.
[Sidenote: Caesar assembles his/her troops.]
[Sidenote: Your address to them.]
The bridge was hardly crossed, Caesar called a the reunion of his
troops, and, with signals of great excitement and the nervousness, it did a
address to them on the magnitude of the crisis through which they was
passing. He showed them as completely he was in their power; he exhorted
them, from the most eloquent appeals to be nearby him believer and truth,,
promettendoloro to the amplest rewards when he would have had to reach the
you object to that he aimed. The soldiers answered to this appeal with
promises of the non shaky fidelity.
[Sidenote: Surrenders him of various cities.]
The first city on the Roman side of the Rubicon was Ariminum. Caesar
advanced to this city. The authorities opened its gates to him--a lot
wanting, as it appeared, to receive him/it as their commander. Caesar
strength was still rather small, as he had been accompanied from only an individual
legion in to cross the river. However, he had sent orders for the other
legions that had been gone away in Gaul to connect him/it without any delay,
although some king-strengthening of its troops didn't seem really necessary, as him
you don't find any indications of opposition to his/her progress. He gave his/her soldiers
the most severe injunctions not to make damage to any ownerships, public or
private, as they advanced, and not to suppose, in some respect a hostile
attitude toward the people of the country. The inhabitants, therefore,
the gives the welcome one wherever he came, and all the cities and city followed the
example of Ariminum, surrendering himself/herself/itself in fact, faster than him
possession of them.
[Sidenote: Domitius named to replace Caesar.]
In the confusion of the debates and he/she votes first in the Senate in Rome
Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a deliberation that had deposed him from had passed
his/her command of the army, and naming a successor. The name of the