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Cisalpine
What ultimately made the Romans unbeatable were not weapons, however, or well-trained leaders (since Roman generals, like politicians, were essentially amateurs), but the Roman genius for fighting as a unit.
Dumnorix
Caesar had never been able to win the hearts of the nobility. His power base was firmly set among the common people he had served as a magistrate and the soldiers he had recruited and fought along side in battles across Gaul.
But as Caesar says: “Human nature is such that we become either too confident or too fearful when circumstances change.”
If fortune doesn’t go your way, sometimes you have to bend it to your will.
Pompey immediately cut him off and declared: What is the point of my life or citizenship if I hold them by the grace of Caesar?
This was their doing, not mine. They would have destroyed me, even after all my great deeds, unless I had turned to my army for help.
Veni. Vidi. Vici. (I came. I saw. I conquered.)
Imagine what would have happened if Caesar was not assassinated!?
