You are engaged in the defence of liberty and of your country; you are supported by its laws, and followed by its magistrates; the world are spectators of your conduct, and wish you success: on the contrary, he whom you oppose is a robber, an oppressor of his country, already nearly sunk with the consciousness of his crimes, as well as the ill success of his arms.

Show then, on this occasion, all that ardour and detestation of tyranny which should animate Romans, and do justice to mankind." 14.

Caesar, on his part, went among his men with that steady serenity for which he was so much admired in the midst of danger.

He insisted on nothing so strongly, as his frequent and unsuccessful endeavours for peace.

He spoke with terror of the blood he was about to shed, and pleaded the necessity that urged him to it.