What were Pompey's expectations and boasts?
12. What was the conduct of the generals?
13. Repeat Pompey's address to his troops?
14. How did Caesar encourage his men?
15. What effect had this speech, and what was the word on both sides?
16. In what manner did the attack commence?
17. Describe the progress of the battle?
18. What means did Caesar adopt to prevent a defeat?
19. Was this measure successful?
20. What was the consequence?
21. What were Caesar's farther commands?
22. What followed?
23. What use did Caesar make of his victory?
24. Did not fatigue abate the ardour of Caesar's troops?
25. Did they attempt to defend the camp?
SECTION V.
Sad Pompey's soul uneasy thoughts infest,
And his Cornelia pains his anxious breast,
To distant Lesbos fain he would remove.
Far from the war, the partner of his love.--_Lucan._
1. Caesar, seeing the field and camp strewed with his fallen
countrymen, was strongly affected at the melancholy prospect, and
cried out to one that stood near him, "They would have it so.
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