Chapter I: Cicero and the Camp of Caesar in Gaul 209

i. Cicero’s return to Rome, 210. State of the city, 211.
Leaves the aristocratic party and joins the triumvirs,
216
ii. Renews his intimacy with Caesar, 224. Pompey and Caesar
compared, 226. Caesar in Gaul, 230
iii. Cicero’s letters to his brother and to Trebatius
supplement the _Commentaries_, 241. Effect produced in
Rome by Caesar’s victories, 251