They were generally biremes, and well adapted for
sea manoeuvres.]
[Footnote 351: A town in Macedonia west of the Thermaic Gulf or Bay of
Saloniki. It appears from this that Pompeius led his troops from the
coast of the Adriatic nearly to the opposite coast of Macedonia (Dion
Cassius, 41. c. 43). His object apparently was to form a junction with
the forces that Scipio and his son were sent to raise in the East (c.
62).]
[Footnote 352: The Romans were accustomed to such exercises as these
in the Campus Martius.
------"cur apricum
Oderit campum patiens pulveris atque solis?
* * * * *
------saepe disco
Saepe trans finem jaculo nobilis expedito."--Horatius, _Od_. i. 8.
Compare the Life of Marius (34).
The Romans maintained their bodily vigour by athletic and military
exercises to a late period of life. The bath, swimming, riding, and
the throwing of the javelin were the means by which they maintained
their health and strength. A Roman commander at the age of sixty was a
more vigorous man than modern commanders at the like age generally
are.]
[Footnote 353: Pompeius passed the winter at Thessalonica (Saloniki)
on the Thermaic Gulf and on the Via Egnatia, which ran from Dyrrachium
to Thessalonica, and thence eastward. He had with him two hundred
senators. The consuls, praetors, and quaestors of the year B.
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