In the political contests of our day, it is to be observed that the combatants are much more prone to imitate the bigotry of Pompey than the generosity of Caesar, condemning, as they often do, those who choose to stand aloof from electioneering struggles, more than they do their most determined opponents and enemies.
[Sidenote: Caesar arrives at Brundusium.] When, at length, Caesar arrived at Brundusium, he found that Pompey had sent a part of his army across the Adriatic into Greece, and was waiting for the transports to return that he might go over himself with the remainder.

In the mean time, he had fortified himself strongly in the city.

Caesar immediately laid siege to the place, and he commenced some works to block up the mouth of the harbor.

He built piers on each side, extending out as far into the sea as the depth of the water would allow them to be built.

He then constructed a series of rafts, which he anchored on the deep water, in a line extending from one pier to the other.