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failure plainly to indicate return to his main theme must be due 

 to a careless literary technique. 



Nissen thought that fit deinde, c. 54, i, followed grammatically 

 and logically on the preceding chapter.^^® So far as the chrono- 

 logical relations of events in the year 50 are concerned, the senate's 

 decree with reference to the two legions was voted in the same 

 period of the year in which Curio attempted to secure the decree 

 disarming Pompeius and Caesar recorded in c. 52, 5.^^^ It is 

 highly probable that with fit deinde Hirtius intended to resume his 

 notice of events that occurred in the spring of 50, the summary 

 being interrupted by c. 53. 



VII 



What cause is to be assigned for the rumor, current in Rome 

 between September 19 and 23, that Placentia would be occupied 

 by four legions October 15? It could not have been the fact of 

 Caesar's first journey to Italy, as he came in early August, not in 

 September. May the rumor have been due to the movements of 

 troops in or from Transalpine Gaul ? The march of the thirteenth 

 legion into Italy could not have been responsible, owing to the 

 comparatively early date at which it came to Italy; and it was 

 merely taking the place of the fifteenth.^-® Nor can the rumor 

 be connected with the march of the legions to winter quarters 

 after the review. The review can not have been held before 

 October; and there followed a period of waiting before the legions 

 scattered. The date of the march of the legions in this instance 

 was too late to be responsible for the rumor. It must have been 

 due to some cause operative during the time when the legions were 

 still in the winter camps of 51/50. 



If Caesar was to make such a move as the occupation of Pla- 



'-" Ausbr., p. 71, I. 



^^ Note 97. 



^"^ Nissen (Ausbr., p. 70, 2) argues that the officers who conducted the 

 first and fifteenth legions to Rome took them over in October, probably, 

 and reached the city not before the middle of November, the time being 

 attested by the fact that Caesar sent the thirteenth legion into Italy at the 

 latter date; further, that to the coming of the thirteenth legion into Italy 

 may have been due the rumor that Caesar vi^as marching on the city. 



