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his/her own history, had but on half as strong a strength as Pompey. The army
of the second, he says, it consisted of almost fifty thousand men, while
its his/her own number was among the winds and the thirty thousand. General,
however it is prone to magnify the military grandeur of their enterprises from,
overestimating the strength with which they had to contend, and
under-appraising them really. We have to receive therefore with some
you distrust the affirmations served as Caesar and his/her partisans; and as for
The history of Pompey, the total and irreparable downfall in that him him and
everybody that immediately stuck to him was completely I submerged after the
fights, it ever prevented his/her said being.
[Sidenote: Aspect of the field of Pompey.]
[Sidenote: the curtain of Pompey.]
In the back of the plan where the lines of Pompey were wide it was the field
from that the army had been drawn out for preparing for the battle. The
fires of field of the preceding night went away moldering, for him it was a heat
morning in summer; the intrenchmentses were protected, and the curtains, now
almost empty, is standing spread out in long file inside the enclosure. In the
half of their was the magnificent tent of the general, furnished
with every imaginable article of luxury and the shine. Companions were
busy here and there, some that rearrange that from which had been gone away in trouble
the call to arm from which the troops had been summoned by their places
of rest and others that provide refreshment-and food for them victorious
comrade when they should return from the battle. In the curtain of Pompey a
magnificent fun was preparing. The tables were shed with
every luxury, the beliefs were loaded with flat, and the whole scene
it was resplendent with utensils and silver decorations and gold.
[Sidenote: Your trust of the victory.]
Pompey and all of its generalses were perfectly sure of the victory. In fact,
the peace and the harmony of their suggestions in field had been destroyed for
many days from their arguments and disputes on the disposition of the