The Epirot militia nowhere offered resistance; the important seaport towns of Oricum and Apollonia along with a number of smaller townships were taken, and Dyrrhachium, selected by the Pompeians as their chief arsenal and filled with stores of all sorts, but only feebly garrisoned, was in the utmost danger.
Caesar Cut Off from Italy But the further course of the campaign did not correspond to this brilliant beginning.

Bibulus subsequently made up in some measure for the negligence, of which he had allowed himself to be guilty, by redoubling his exertions.

He not only captured nearly thirty of the transports returning home, and caused them with every living thing on board to be burnt, but he also established along the whole district of coast occupied by Caesar, from the island Sason (Saseno) as far as the ports of Corcyra, a most careful watch, however troublesome it was rendered by the inclement season of the year and the necessity of bringing everything necessary for the guard-ships, even wood and water, from Corcyra; in fact his successor Libo--for he himself soon succumbed to the unwonted fatigues--even blockaded for a time the port of Brundisium, till the want of water again dislodged him from the little island in front of it on which he had established himself.

It was not possible for Caesar's officers to convey the second portion of the army over to their general.

As little did he himself succeed in the capture of Dyrrhachium.