Duruy says there were senators in Pompeius' camp, out of a total of between 500 and 600.

Mommsen says, "they were veritably emigrants.
This Roman Coblentz presented a pitiful spectacle of the high pretensions and paltry performances of the grandees of Rome." (Vol.iv., p.

397.) Almost all the Consulars were with Pompeius.
(5) By the will of Ptolemy Auletes, Cleopatra had been appointed joint sovereign of Egypt with her young brother.

Lucan means that Caesar would have killed Pompeius if young Ptolemy had not done so.

She lost her hare of the kingdom, and Caesar was clear of the crime.
(6) Appius was Proconsul, and in command of Achaia, for the Senate.
(7) See Book IV., 82.
(8) Themis, the goddess of law, was in possession of the Delphic oracle, previous to Apollo.