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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · siege logistics · siege and fortification · improvised root food · caesar’s strategic reflection
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · wonder (1)
“The victory to-day had been on the enemies' side, if they had had a general who knew how to gain it.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · insight
At the siege at Pompey’s camp, Caesar’s men suffer from shortages, feed with improvised roots, skirmish around outworks, and after hard fighting Caesar recognizes strategic missteps and considers altering operations toward Macedonia.
a victory by their sole assistance, but must disturb himself, and expose his life for those who were absent, as if he could not trust those who were with him. After this, Antony came over with the forces from Brundisium, which encouraged Caesar to give Pompey battle, though he was encamped very advantageously, and furnished with plenty of provisions both by sea and land, whilst he himself was at the beginning but il…