the Senate after its flight from Rome. The substance of its reply was,
that Pompey did not wish a personal interview, but would go to Spain,
and that Caesar must leave Ariminum, return to his province, and give
security that he would dismiss his army.

These terms seemed to Caesar unfair, and he would not accept them.
Accordingly he sent his lieutenant, Mark Antony, across the mountains
to Arretium, on the road to Rome. He himself pushed on to Ancóna,
before Pompey could stop him. The towns that were on his march threw
open their gates, their garrisons joined his army, and their officers
fled. Steadily he advanced, with constantly increasing forces, until
when he reached Corfinium his army had swelled to thirty thousand
troops.

This place had been occupied by Domitius with a party of aristocrats
and a few thousand men. Caesar surrounded the town, and when Domitius
endeavored to steal away, his own troops took him and delivered him
over to Caesar. The capture of Corfinium and the desertion of its
garrison filled Pompey and his followers with dismay. They hurried to
Brundisium, where ships were in readiness for them to depart.

Hoping to intercept Pompey, Caesar hastened to this port. On his
arrival outside of the town, the Consuls, with half the army, had
already gone. Pompey, however, was still within the place, with twelve
thousand troops, waiting for transports to carry them away. He refused
to see Caesar; and, though the latter endeavored to blockade the port,
he was unsuccessful, owing to want of ships.

Thus Pompey escaped. With him were the Consuls, more than half the
Senate, and the aristocracy. Caesar would have followed them, but a