[3] "Delectus ... invitorum est et pugnando ab horrentium."--_To Atticus_, vii. 13. [4] Compare Caesar's account of these conditions, _De Bello Civili_, i. 10, with _Cicero to Atticus_, vii. 17. [5] Between the Apennines and the Adriatic, about Ancona; in the line of Caesar's march should he advance from Kimini. [6] _To Atticus_, vii. 16. [7] _Ibid_., vii. 21. [8] "Balbus quidem major ad me scribit, nihil malle Caesarem, quam principe Pompeio sine metu vivere. Tu puto haec credis."--_To Atticus_, viii. 9. [9] _To Atticus_, viii. 3. [10] _To Atticus_, viii. 11. [11] "Judicavique te bello violari, contra cujus honorem, populi Romani beneficio concessum, inimici atque invidi niterentur. Sed ut eo tempore non modo ipse fautor dignitatis tuae fui, verum etiam caeteris auctor ad te adjuvandum, sic me nunc Pompeii dignitas vehementer movet," etc.--_Cicero to Caesar, enclosed in a letter to Atticus_, ix. 11. [12] Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 11. [13] Pompey had for _two years_ meditated on the course which he was now taking. Atticus had spoken of the intended flight from Italy as base. Cicero answers: "Hoc turpe Cnaeus noster biennio ante cogitavit: ita Sullaturit animus ejus, et diu proscripturit;" "so he apes Sylla and longs for a proscription."--_To Atticus_, ix. 10. [14] _To Atticus_, viii. 13. [15] Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 15. [16] _To Atticus_, viii. 16. [17] _To Atticus_, ix. 4. [18] _Ibid_., ix. 6. [19] _To Atticus_, ix. 7 and 9. [20] _Ibid_. [21] "Ita dies et noctes tanquam avis illa mare prospecto, evolare cupio." [22] "Hunc primum mortalem esse, deinde etiam multis modis extingui posse cogitabam."--_To Atticus_, ix. 10. CHAPTER XXII.