beholding them for the last time:  others bewailed their own lot and joined their prayers to those of the departing:  the larger number, on the ground that they were being betrayed, uttered maledictions.  The whole population, even those that stayed behind, were there with all the women and all the children.  Then the one group set out on their way and the other group escorted them.  Some interposed delays and were detained by their acquaintances:  others embraced and clung to each other for a long time.  Those that remained accompanied those setting out, calling after them and expressing their sympathy, while with invocations of Heaven they besought them to take them, too or to remain at home themselves.  Meanwhile there were shrill sounds of wailing over each one of the exiles even from outsiders, and insatiate floods of tears.  Hope for the best they were scarcely at all inclined to entertain in their condition; it was rather suffering which was expected, first by those who were left and subsequently by those who were departing.  Any one that saw them would have guessed that two peoples and two cities were being made from one and that one was being driven out and was fleeing, whereas the other was being left to its fate and was being captured.

[-10-] Pompey thus left the city drawing many of the senators after him; some remained behind, either attached to Caesar’s cause or maintaining a neutral attitude toward both.  He hastily raised levies from the cities, collected money, and sent garrisons to almost every point.  Caesar, when he learned this, did not hurry to Rome:  it, he knew, was offered as a prize to the victors, and he said that he was not marching against that place as hostile to him but against his political opponents in its behalf.  And he sent a letter throughout all Italy in which he summoned Pompey to a kind of trial, encouraged all to be of good cheer, bade them remain in their places, and made them many promises.  He set out next against Corfinium, which, being occupied by Lucius Domitius, had not joined his adherents, and after conquering in battle a few who met him he shut up the rest in a state of siege.  Pompey, inasmuch as these citizens were being besieged and many of the others were falling off to Caesar, had no further hope of Italy but resolved to cross over into Macedonia, Greece, and Asia.  He derived much encouragement from the remembrance of what he had achieved there and from the friendship of the people and the princes. (Spain was likewise devoted to him, but he could not reach it safely because Caesar had possession of both the Gauls.) Moreover he calculated that if he should sail away, no one would pursue him on account of the lack of boats and on account of the winter,—­the late autumn being far advanced,—­and meanwhile he would at leisure amass both money and troops, much of them from subject and much from allied territory. [-11-] With this design, therefore, he himself set out for Brundusium and bade Domitius abandon Corfinium