Note 123 — Chapter XXV · THE CLOSING SCENES OF CÆSAR’S LIFE

Appiang says that Cæsar arrived in Spain from Rome in twenty-seven days, accompanied by a part of his army; Suetoniusi that he reached the Further Province in twenty-four. Straboj seems to rely on the same authorities as Appian. From Rome to Corduba or Obulco is more than a thousand miles, a distance which it is utterly impossible for an army to accomplish in the longest of these periods. The author of the Commentary on the Spanish War is contented with the expression celeri festinatione, and Dion Cassiusk prudently follows him.