CHAPTER VIII.
FLIGHT AND DEATH OF POMPEY.
[Sidenote: Pursuit of the vanquished.] [Sidenote: Pompey recovers himself.] Caesar pursued the discomfited and flying bodies of Pompey's army to the camp.

They made a brief stand upon the ramparts and at the gates in a vain and fruitless struggle against the tide of victory which they soon perceived must fully overwhelm them.

They gave way continually here and there along the lines of intrenchment, and column after column of Caesar's followers broke through into the camp.

Pompey, hearing from his tent the increasing noise and uproar, was at length aroused from his stupor, and began to summon his faculties to the question what he was to do.

At length a party of fugitives, hotly pursued by some of Caesar's soldiers, broke into his tent.