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| And so, with all the force he could make, having with much | IULIUS |
| a doe put his enemies to flight: he slue above thirty thowsand | CÆSAR |
| of them in the fielde, and lost of his owne men a thowsand of | Caesars victory |
| the best he had. After this battell he went into his tent, | of the sonnes |
| and told his frends, that he had often before fought for | of Pompey. |
| victory, but this last time now, that he had fought for the | |
| safety of his owne life. He wanne this battell on the very | |
| feast day of the Bacchanalians, in the which men say, that | |
| Pompey the great went out of Rome, about foure yeares | |
| before, to beginne this civill warre. For his sonnes, the | |
| younger scaped from the battell: but within few dayes | |
| after, Diddius brought the heade of the elder. This was | |
| the last warre that Caesar made. But the triumphe he made | Caesars |
| into Rome for the same, did as much offend the Romanes, | triumphe |
| and more, then any thing that ever he had done before: | of Pompeis |
| bicause he had not overcome Captaines that were straungers, | sonnes. |
| nor barbarous kinges, but had destroyed the sonnes of the | |
| noblest man in Rome, whom fortune had overthrowen. And | |
| bicause he had plucked up his race by the rootes, men did | |
| not thinke it meete for him to triumphe so, for the calamities | |
| of his contrie, rejoycing at a thing for the which he had but | |
| one excuse to alleage in his defence, unto the gods and men: | |
| that he was compelled to doe that he did. And the rather | |
| they thought it not meete, bicause he had never before sent | |
| letters nor messengers unto the common wealth at Rome, | |
| for any victorie that he had ever wonne in all the civill | |
| warres: but did alwayes for shame refuse the glorie of it. | |
| This notwithstanding, the Romanes inclining to Caesars pro- | |
| sperity, and taking the bit in the mouth, supposing that to | |
| be ruled by one man alone, it would be a good meane for | |
| them to take breth a litle, after so many troubles and | |
| miseries as they had abidden in these civill warres: they | |
| chose him perpetuall Dictator. This was a plaine tyranny: | Caesar |
| for to this absolute power of Dictator, they added this, | Dictator |
| never to be affraied to be deposed. Cicero propounded | perpetuall. |
| before the Senate, that they should geve him such honors, | |
| as were meete for a man: howbeit others afterwardes added | |
| to, honors beyonde all reason. For, men striving who shoulde | |
| most honor him, they made him hatefull and troublesome | |
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