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Caesar cum Pompei castris adpropinquasset, ad hunc modum aciem eius instructam animum advertit: [2] erant in sinistro cornu legiones duae traditae a Caesare initio dissensionis ex senatus consulto; quarum una prima, altera tertia appellabatur. in eo loco ipse erat [3] Pompeius. mediam aciem Scipio cum legionibus Syriacis tenebat. Ciliciensis legio coniuncta cum cohortibus Hispanis, quas traductas ab Afranio docuimus, in dextro [4] cornu erant collocatae. has firmissimas se habere Pompeius existimabat. reliquas inter aciem mediam cornuaque interiecerat numeroque cohortes cx expleverat. [5] haec erant milia xlv, evocatorum circiter duo, quae ex beneficiariis superiorum exercituum ad eum convenerant; quae tota acie disperserat. reliquas cohortis vii castris propinquisque castellis praesidio disposuerat. [6] dextrum cornu eius rivus quidam impeditis ripis muniebat; quam ob causam cunctum equitatum, sagittarios funditoresque omnes sinistro cornu obiecerat.
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