have submitted to laying them aside at this time. [-53-] They insisted a great deal upon the toils and dangers they had undergone and said a great deal about what they had hoped and what they declared they deserved to obtain.  Next they asked to be released from service and were very clamorous on this point, not because they wished to return to private life,—­they were far from anxious for this since they had long become accustomed to the gains from warfare—­but because they thought they would scare Caesar in this way and accomplish anything whatever, since his projected invasion of Africa was close at hand.  He, however, made no reply at all to their earlier statements, but said merely:  “Quirites,[81] what you say is right:  you are weary and worn out with wounds,” and then at once disbanded them all as if he had no further need of them, promising that he would give the rewards in full to such as had served the appointed time.  At these words they were struck with alarm both at his attitude in general and because he had called them Quirites and not soldiers; and humiliated, in fear of suffering some calamity, they changed their stand, and addressed him with many entreaties and offers, promising that they would join his expedition as volunteers and would carry the war through for him by themselves.  When they had reached this stage and one of their leaders also, either on his own impulse or as a favor to Caesar, had said a few words and presented a few petitions in their behalf, the dictator answered:  “I release both you who are here present and all the rest whose years of service have expired.  I really have no further need of you.  Yet even so I will pay you the rewards, that no one may say that I after using you in dangers later showed myself ungrateful, even though you were unwilling to join my campaign while perfectly strong in body and able in other respects to prosecute a war.” [-54-] said for effect, for they were quite indispensable to him.  He then assigned them all land from the public holdings and from his own, settling them in different places, and separating them considerable distances from one another, to the end that they should not inspire their neighbors with terror nor (dwelling apart) be ready for insurrection.  Of the money that was owing them, large amounts of which he had promised to give them at practically every levy, he offered to discharge a part immediately and to supply the remainder with interest in the near future.  When he had said this and so enthralled them that they showed no sign of boldness but expressed their gratitude, he added:  “You have all that is due you from me, and I will compel no one of you to endure campaigns any longer.  If, however, any one wishes of his own accord to help me subjugate what remains, I will gladly receive him.”  Hearing this they were overjoyed, and all alike were anxious to join the new expedition.