Pompey's flight from Rome
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
departure from the city · flight from Rome · hurried away from Rome
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Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey
Pompey's hasty departure from Rome upon Caesar's advance, leaving fellow citizens undefended.
but Pompey, after Caesar had occupied a single city of Italy with only fifty-three hundred men, hurried away from Rome in a panic, either yielding ignobly to so few, or conjecturing falsely that there were more;
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Pompey's edict declaring civil war and his departure from Rome by night, followed by senators and citizens.
For those who dwelt outside the city came rushing in hurried flight from all quarters into Rome, and those who dwelt in Rome were rushing out of it and abandoning the city, where, in such tempestuous confusion, the better element was weak, and the insubordinate element strong and hard for the magistrates to manage.
Indeed, one would have found that those who fled the city for the sake of liberty were not so numerous as those who did so because they were unable to forsake Pompey.
Under these circumstances he issued an edict in which he recognized a state of civil war, ordered all the senators to follow him, declared that he would regard as a partisan of Caesar any one who remained behind, and late in the evening left the city.