'All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exact
ed from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were over
turned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war betwee
n himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in Januar
y 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn o
f the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pom
pey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Al
exandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a yea
r of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C.
This generously annotated editio
n places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail an
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