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a lot in the spirit of the generosity and the mercy with which he entered
on the great dispute in front of them. Pompey ordered every city to connect
his/her standard, declaring that he should consider every neutrals as his
hostile. Caesar, on the other hand it gave free permission to every one to
it declines, if he chose, while he/she is taking some part in the dispute, saying that him
you/he/she should consider everybody that didn't act against him as his/her friends. In the
political disputes of our day, will be observed that the fighters
it is very prone to imitate the fanaticism of Pompey that the generosity
of Caesar, condemning, as they often does, those that choose to be standing to distance
from struggles that they make electoral propaganda, more than them they do more theirs they determined
opponents and enemies.
[Sidenote: Caesar reaches Brundusium.]
When, for a long time, Caesar reached Brundusium, he founded that Pompeys you/he/she had
sent a part of his/her army through the Adriatic in Greece, and it was
waiting for the transports to return that it is probable that him he goes above with
the rest. Of bad duration, he was strongly strengthened in
the city. Caesar immediately placed siege to the place, and he started
of the jobs to stop on the mouth of the I bring. He built benches on each
you side, while extending out far himself/herself/itself as in the sea as the depth of the water is able
allows that they is built. He built then a series of floats that him
anchored on the deep water in a line that extends him from a bench to the,
other. He built towers on these floats, and it furnished them of garrison with
soldiers, in the hopes from this he/she means to prevent to every exit of the strong one. Him
thought that, when this job was completed, Pompey would be completely
closes in, over every possibility of escape.
[Sidenote: He besieges Pompey.]
[Sidenote: the plan of Pompey of escape.]
However, the transports returned before the job was completed. His/her
progress was, clearly, slow, as the constructions were the scene of a