The prostration of which he spoke, from which Pompey would not raise him, the memory of which was still so bitter to him, was not a prostration of the body.

I hold it to have been impossible that Cicero should have assumed such an attitude before Pompey, or that he would so have written to Atticus had he done so.

It would have been neither Roman nor Ciceronian, as displayed by Cicero to Pompey.

He had gone to his old ally and told him of his trouble, and had no doubt reminded him of those promises of assistance which Pompey had so often made.

Then Pompey had refused to help him, and had assured him, with too much truth, that Caesar's will was everything.