Capitolo 88
the coasts of Macedon and Greece, opposite to Brundusium, where he knew
that Caesar would try to cross the Sea of Adriatic, Your fields, his
separations, his/her troops of archers and slingers and his/her squadrons of
horse, full the earth, while every I bring you/he/she was protected, and the line of
the coast was environed from batteries and castles on the stones, and
fleets of helmets on the water. Caesar advanced with his/her immense army to
Brundusium, on the opposite beach in December, so that, besides
the formidable resistance prepared for him from its enemy on the coast, him
it had to meet the wild surges of the Adriatic, while rolling in perpetually
the dark and dark emotion raised for a long time in so wide seas
wintery storms.
[Sidenote: Your address to his/her army.]
Caesar didn't have ships, for Pompey the seas of every thing had clarified
what you/he/she could help him/it in his/her deliberate passage. You give great efforts, however,
he succeeded for a long time in to find together an enough number of
helmets to bring on a part of his/her army, provided that him picked up the men
alone, and he/she left all of his/her military shops and baggage behind. He gathered
his/her army together, therefore, and it manufactured them an address, while representing
what they was now drawing toward the end of all of their dangers and
toils. They was almost about to meet theirs great enemy for a final conflict.
It was not necessary to take their servants, their baggage and them
shops through the sea, for them they were sure of the victory, and victory is able
furnish them with ample provisionings from those around that they was
to conquer.
[Sidenote: Caesar crosses the Adriatic.]
The soldiers eagerly soaked the spirit of the trust and the courage that
Same Caesar express. A great separation embarked and put to sea,
and, after being launched every night on the cold and tempestuous waters, them
him approached to the beach to of the distance to the toward north of the place
where the fleets of Pompey if they were them expected. It was to a point where the