attendance he no longer assailed Oricum but journeyed about pillaging various places and once vainly made an attempt upon Brundusium itself, as some others had done.  This was his occupation for awhile.  When his father had been defeated and the Egyptians on receipt of the news sailed home, he betook himself to Cato. [-13-] And his example was followed by Gaius Cassius, who had done very great mischief both in Italy and in Sicily and had overcome a number of opponents in many battles by sea and by land.

Many simultaneously took refuge with Cato because they saw that he excelled them in uprightness, and he, using them as comrades in struggle and counselors to all matters, sailed to the Peloponnesus with the apparent intention of occupying it, for he had not yet heard that Pompey was dead.  He did seize Patrae and there received among other accessions Petreius and Pompey’s son-in-law[74] Faustus.  Subsequently Quintus Fufius Calenus led an expedition against them, whereupon they set sail, and coming to Cyrene there learned of the death of Pompey.  Their views were now no longer harmonious:  Cato, loathing the thought of Caesar’s sovereignty, and some others in despair of getting pardon from him, sailed to Africa with the army, added Scipio to their number, and were as active as possible against Caesar; the majority scattered, and some of them retired to make their peace as each one best might, while the rest, among them Gaius Cassius, went to Caesar forthwith and received assurance of safety.

[-14-] Calenus had been sent by Caesar into Greece before the battle, and he captured among other places the Peiraeus, owing to its being unwalled.  Athens (although he did a great deal of damage to its territory) he was unable to take before the defeat of Pompey.  The inhabitants then capitulated voluntarily and Caesar without resentment released them altogether, making only this remark, that in spite of their many offences they were saved by the dead.  This speech signified that it was on account of their ancestors and on account of the latter’s glory and excellence that he spared them.  Accordingly Athens and most of the rest of Greece then at once made terms with him:  but the Megarians in spite of this resisted and were captured only at a considerably later date, partly by force and partly by treachery.  Wherefore a great slaughter of the people was instituted and the survivors sold.  Calenus had so acted that he might seem to have taken a merited vengeance upon them.  But since he feared that the city might perish utterly, he sold the dwellers in the first place to their relatives, and in the second place for a very small sum, so that they might regain their freedom.