[Footnote 533: Dion Cassius (41. c. 45) tells this story of the boat
adventure; and (Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii. 57) Cæsar was uneasy at
the delay of M. Antonius and his legions, and he feared that Antonius
might desert him. Cæsar says nothing of this attempt to cross the sea.
He very seldom mentions his personal risks. He left this to the
anecdote collectors.]
[Footnote 534: The river appears to be the Anas of Dion (41. c. 45)
which is near Apollonia, though he does not mention the river in his
account of Cæsar's attempted voyage. This is the river which Strabo
calls Æas, and Hekatæus calls Aous (Strabo, p. 316).
For the events in these three chapters see the Life of Pompeius, c.
65, &c., and the references in the notes.]
[Footnote 535: Cæsar calls the root Chara (_Civil War_, iii. 48. Comp.
Plinius, _N.H._ 19, c. 8). These facts are mentioned in Cæsar. The
events in the neighbourhood of Dyrrachium and Apollonia must be
studied in Cæsar, Dion Cassius, Book 41, and Appianus, Book ii.]
[Footnote 536: Cæsar mentions the capture of Gomphi (_Civil War_, iii.
80), but he says nothing of the wine. Cæsar let his men plunder
Gomphi. The town had offered him all its means and prayed him for a
garrison, but on hearing of his loss at Dyrrachinm the people shut
their gates against him and sent to Pompeius for aid. The town was
stormed on the first day that it was attacked.]
[Footnote 537: As Kaltwasser observes, there was no bad omen in the
dream, as it is here reported. We must look to the Life of Pompeius,
c. 68, for the complete dream. Perhaps something has dropped out of
the text here. Dacier, as Kaltwasser says, has inserted the whole
passage out of the Life of Pompeius.]
[Footnote 538: This is an error. The name is Q. Cornificus. See the
note of Sintenis. He was a quæstor of Cæsar. Calenus is Fulvus
Calenus, who had been sent by Cæsar into Achaia, and had received the
submission of Delphi, Thebæ, and Orchomenus, and was then engaged in
taking other cities and trying to gain over other cities. (Cæsar,
_Civil War_, iii. 55.)]
[Footnote 539: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 71.]
[Footnote 540: I have omitted the unmeaning words [Greek: ê dia theias
hêttês tethambêmenos] ἢ διὰ θείας ἥττης τεθαμβημένος. See the note of
Sintenis.]
[Footnote 541: These words of Cæsar are also reported by Suetonius
(_Cæsar_, 30), on the authority of Pollio. They are: Hoc voluerunt:
tantis rebus gestis C. Cæsar condemnatus essem, nisi ab exercitu
auxilium petissem. These words are more emphatic with the omission of
'they brought me into such a critical position,' and Casaubon proposes
to erase them in Plutarch's text, that is, to alter and improve the
text.]
[Footnote 542: A rich town of Lydia in Asia Minor on the north side of
the Mæander. This miracle at Tralles and others are enumerated by
Cæsar (_Civil War_, iii. 105; Dion Cassius, 41. c. 61). The book of
Livius, in which this affair of Patavium (Padua) was mentioned (the
111th), is lost. See the Supplement of Freinsheim, c. 72.]
[Footnote 543: See life of Pompeius, c. 42, notes; and Appianus
(_Civil Wars_, ii. 88).]
[Footnote 544: Cæsar crossed the Hellespont, where he met with C.
Cassius Longinus going with a fleet to aid Pharnakes in Pontus.
Cassius surrendered and was kindly treated, in consideration of which
he afterwards assisted to murder Cæsar. (Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii.
88.)]
[Footnote 545: Of Knidus. The same who is mentioned by Cicero (_Ad
Attic._ xiii. 7) as a friend of Cæsar, and by Strabo, p. 48, &c.