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CAESAR'S STRUGGLE WITH POMPEY .-- BATTLE OF PHARSALIA.
Pompey was elected sole Consul in February, 52.

He at once threw off all pretence of an alliance with Caesar, and devoted himself to the interests of the Senate and aristocracy.
The brilliant successes of Caesar in Gaul had made a profound impression upon the minds of the citizens, to whom the name of the northern barbarians was still fraught with terror.

Caesar had won for himself distinction as a soldier greater than the Scipios, or Sulla, or Pompey.
"He was coming back to lay at his country's feet a province larger than Spain, not only subdued, but reconciled to subjugation; a nation of warriors, as much devoted to him as his own legions." The nobility had watched his successes with bitter envy; but they were forced to vote a thanksgiving of twenty days, which "the people made sixty." Caesar now declared through his followers at Rome that he desired a second consulship.

But he wished first to celebrate his triumph, and on this account would not disband his army; for, according to the custom, he could not triumph without it.