sundered the family ties between Caesar and Pompey, who married
Cornelia, the widow of the young Crassus, and daughter of Metellus
Scipio.




CHAPTER XXXII.

CAESAR'S STRUGGLE WITH POMPEY.--BATTLE OF PHARSALIA.


Pompey was elected sole Consul in February, 52. He at once threw off
all pretence of an alliance with Caesar, and devoted himself to the
interests of the Senate and aristocracy.

The brilliant successes of Caesar in Gaul had made a profound
impression upon the minds of the citizens, to whom the name of the
northern barbarians was still fraught with terror. Caesar had won for
himself distinction as a soldier greater than the Scipios, or Sulla,
or Pompey. "He was coming back to lay at his country's feet a province
larger than Spain, not only subdued, but reconciled to subjugation; a
nation of warriors, as much devoted to him as his own legions." The
nobility had watched his successes with bitter envy; but they were
forced to vote a thanksgiving of twenty days, which "the people made
sixty."

Caesar now declared through his followers at Rome that he desired a
second consulship. But he wished first to celebrate his triumph, and
on this account would not disband his army; for, according to the