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C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 42 (search)
Pompey, thus excluded from Dyrrhachium, and unable to execute his
first design, came to a resolution of encamping on an eminence, called Petra, where was a tolerable harbour,
sheltered from some winds. Here he ordered part of his fleet to attend him,
and corn and provisions to be brought him from Asia, and the other provinces subject to
his command. Caesar, apprehending the war would run into length, and
despairing of supplies from Italy, because the coasts were so strictly
guarded by Pompey's fleet; and his own galleys, built, the winter before, in Sicily, Gaul, and Italy, were not yet arrived; despatched L.
Canuleius, one of his lieutenants, to Epirus, for corn. And because that country
lay at a great distance from his camp, he built granaries in several places,
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