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This small stream does not appear to be identified with certainty.
Some writers make it the Fiumicino.
Ariminum was not in Caesar's province, and Plutarch must have known
that, as appears from his narrative. Kaltwasser thinks that he may
mean that it was originally a Gallic town, which was true.]
[Footnote 520: In Plutarch's time the system of naming the Romans was
greatly confused, and he extended the confusion to earlier times. C.
Asinius Pollio, who was with Caesar at the Rubico and at the battle of
Pharsalia, wrote a history of the Civil Wars. He was also a poet.
(Horatius, _Od._ ii. 1.) His work, as we may collect from c. 46,
furnished materials for anecdotes about Caesar.]
[Footnote 521: This dream according to Suetonius (_Caesar_, c. 7) and
Dion Cassius (41. c. 24) he had at Cades (Cadiz) in Spain during his
quaestorship. The time of the dream is not unimportant, if the
interpretation of it was that he was destined to have the dominion of
the world. Caesar has not recorded his dream. Sulla recorded his
dreams. He was superstitious and cruel. Caesar was not cruel, and there
is no proof that he was superstitious.]
[Footnote 522: Pompeius went to Capua, where he thought of making a
stand, but he soon moved on to Brundisium. On the confusion in the
city see Dion Cassius (41. c. 5-9).]
[Footnote 523: The author of the Eighth book of the Gallic War (c. 52)
speaks of Labienus being solicited by Caesar's enemies.
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