friends proposed reconciliation to them, and when he accomplished nothing, he sent envoys from the number of the veterans to them.  He expected by this stroke pretty surely to obtain his request, to adjust present difficulties, and to gain a strength equal to theirs for the future.  And even though he should fail of these aims, he expected that not he but they would bear the responsibility for their quarrel.  This actually took place.  When he effected nothing even through the soldiers, he despatched senators, showing them the covenants made between himself and Antony, and offering the envoys as arbitrators of the differences.  But his opponents in the first place made many counter-propositions, demands with which Caesar was sure not to comply, and again, in respect to everything that they did said they were doing it by the orders of Mark Antony.  So that when nothing was gained in this way either, he betook himself once more to the veterans. [-12-] Thereupon these assembled in Rome in great numbers, with the avowed intention of making some communication to the people and the senate.  But instead of troubling themselves about this errand they collected on the Capitol and commanded that the compacts which Antony and Caesar made be read to them.  They ratified these agreements and voted that they should be made arbitrators of the differences existing.  After recording these acts on tablets and sealing them they delivered them to the vestal virgins to keep.  To Caesar, who was present, and to the other party by an embassy they gave orders to meet for adjudication at Gabii on a stated day.  Caesar showed his readiness to submit to arbitration, and the others promised to put in an appearance, but out of fear or else perhaps disdain did not come. (For they were wont to make fun of the warriors, calling them among other names senatus caligatus on account of their use of military boots.) So they condemned Lucius and Fulvia as guilty of some injustice, and gave precedence to the cause of Caesar.  After this, when the latter’s adversaries had deliberated again and again, they took up the war once more and did not make ready for it in any quiet fashion.  Chief among their measures was to secure money from sources, even from temples.  They took away all the votive offerings that could be turned into bullion, those deposited in Rome itself as well as those in the rest of Italy that was under their control.  Both money and soldiers came to them also from Gallia Togata, which had been included by this time in the domain of Italy, to the end that no one else, under the plea that it was a single district, should keep soldiers south of the Alps.

[-13-] Caesar, then, was making preparations, and Fulvia and Lucius were gathering hoards of supplies and assembling forces.  Meanwhile both sent embassies and despatched soldiers and officers in every direction, and each managed to seize some places beforehand and was repulsed from others.  The most of these transactions, and those connected with no great or important occurrence, I shall pass over, and briefly relate the points which are of chief value.