Some Roman street fights were no doubt more bloody--as for instance that in which, seven years afterward, Clodius was slaughtered by Milo--but the blood was made to flow, not by the people, but by hired bravoes.

The Roman citizens of the day were, I think, very quiescent.

Neither pride nor misery stirred them much.

Caesar, perceiving this, was aware that he might disregard Bibulus and his auguries so long as he had a band of ruffians around him sufficient for the purposes of the hour.

It was in order that he might thus prevail that the coalition had been made with Pompey and Crassus.