Note 867 — Chapter IX · EVENTS OF THE YEAR 704.
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“I should like to come nearer to you; but, I regret to say, I dare not trust myself to the two legions.... The two legions must not be exposed in the presence of Cæsar without the cohorts from Picenum.” (Letter from Pompey to Domitius, Proconsul.—Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VIII. 12.)—“All my resources are reduced to two legions, which Pompey has retained in an odious manner, and of which he is no more sure than of foreigners.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 13.)