a large expanse of plain, so that they could not see each other distinctly.  In the battle each one could recognize only what was opposite him, and when the rout took place each side fled the opposite way to its own fortifications, situated at a distance from each other, without stopping to look back.  Because of this fact and of the immeasurable quantity of dust that rose they were ignorant of the termination of the battle, and those who had conquered thought they had been victorious over everything, and those who were defeated deemed they had been worsted everywhere.  They did not learn what had happened until the ramparts had been laid in ruins, and the victors on each side on retiring to their own head-quarters encountered each other.

[-46-] So far, then, as the battle was concerned, both sides both conquered thus and were defeated.  At this time they did not resume the conflict, but as soon as they had retired and beheld each other and recognized what had taken place, they both withdrew, not venturing anything further.  They had beaten and had proved inferior to each other.  This was shown first by the fact that the entire ramparts of Caesar and Antony and everything within them had been captured. (That proved practically the truth of the dream, for if Caesar had remained in his place, he would certainly have perished with the rest.) It was shown again in the fate of Cassius.  He came away safe from the battle, but stripped of his fortifications he had fled to a different spot, and suspecting that Brutus, too, had been defeated and that several of the victors were hastening to attack him he made haste to die.  He had sent a certain centurion to view the situation and report to him where Brutus was and what he was doing.  This man fell in with some horsemen whom Brutus had dispatched to seek his colleague, turned back with them and proceeded leisurely, with the idea that there was hurry, because no danger presented itself.  Cassius, seeing them afar off, suspected they were enemies and ordered Pindarus, a freedman, to kill him.  The centurion on learning that his leader’s death was due to his dilatoriness slew himself upon his body.

[-47-] Brutus immediately sent the body of Cassius secretly to Thasos.  He shrank from burying it upon the ground, for fear the army would be filled with grief and dejection at sight of the preparations.  The remainder of his friend’s soldiers he took under his charge, consoled them in a speech, won their devotion by a gift of money to make up for what they had lost, and then transferred his position to their enclosure, which was more suitable.  From there he started out to harass his opponents in various ways, especially by assaulting their camp at night.  He had no intention of joining issue with them again in a set battle, but had great hopes of overcoming them without danger by the lapse of time.  Hence he tried regularly to startle them in various ways and disturb them by night, and once by diverting the