. This is Holmes’ solution (RR 3.549–551) to the discrepancy between accounts in BHisp. and in Florus and Dio, both of which presumably derive from Livy. According to the author of the BHisp., the left wing of the Pompeians was yielding when the enemy began to transfer a legion from his right wing. It was prevented from reinforcing the hard pressed left by Caesar’s cavalry which moved against that wing as soon as the legion started across (31.4–5). Hence the cavalry was set in motion because the legion had begun to cross its line. Florus (2.13.83) has Labienus sent five cohorts obliquely across the line to aid the Pompeian camp which was being threatened, apparently, by Bogud’s cavalry. According to Dio (43.38.2–3), Labienus left his place in the line to prevent Bogud form assaulting the Pompeian camp. Holmes (3.551) regarded as strong evidence for his view that Bogud must have been acting under Caesar’s orders which were consequently given before Labienus had moved. To the author of the BHisp. the movement of the cavalry, however, appeared to follow that of the legions or five cohorts.
56. BHisp. 31.9; Vell. 2.54.4. App. BC 2.105; Oros. 6.16.8. According to Appian (BC 2.105), Labienus’s head was brought to Caesar.
57. Cf. Labienus’s behavior on the plain of Ruspina when he thought that he had Caesar trapped (BAf. 16), and before the doomed Caesarians at Dyrrachium (Caes. BC 3.71.4).
58. Rambaud, 345. Dyrrachium: Caes. BC 3.13.3–4. Pharsalus: BC 3.87; also Plut. Pomp. 68.1.
59. Mommsen, Hist. of Rome 4.435.
60. Thus Caesar wanted the senators, especially Cicero, to return to Rome (Cic. Att. 7.17.3).
61. See Strasburger, HZ 175 (1953) 225–264, esp. 240 ff. ad 246 ff. After Caesar’s death, Matius who followed the friend but could not approve of his actions wrote to Cicero (Fam. 11.28.2):
Itaque in victoria hominis necessari neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus, quibus praemiis reliqui, minus apud eum quam ego cum possent, inmoderate sunt abusi.