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However, it is also true that Caesar showed himself merciful as a conqueror; after defeating and capturing the forces of Pompey in Spain, he sent away their commanders, and took the soldiers into his service.1 Then he re-crossed the Alps, marched rapidly through Italy, and came to Brundisium shortly after the winter solstice.2
1 See Caesar, Bell. Civ. I. xli.-lxxxvii.
2 Of 49 B.C.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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