Note 1204 — Chapter V · CONSULSHIP OF CÆSAR AND BIBULUS. (695.)

“At the gates of Rome there was a general invested with authority for many years, and at the head of a great army (cum magno exercitu). Was he my enemy? I do not say he was; but I knew that when people said so, he was silent.” (Cicero, Oration after his return in the Senate, 13.)—“Oppressos, vos, inquit, tenebo exercitu Cæsaris.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 16.)—“Clodius said he would invade the curia at the head of Cæsar’s army.” (Cicero, Oration on the Report of the Augurs, 22.)—“Cæsar had already gone out of Rome with his army.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 17.)