previous next  He raised troops over the whole province; added
thirty auxiliary cohorts to the two legions he had already under
his command; formed great magazines of corn to supply
Marseilles, and the armies under Afranius and Petreius; ordered
the Gaditani to furnish him with ten ships of war; caused a
considerable number to be built at Hispalis; sent all the money
and ornaments he found in the temple of Hercules to Cales; left
there a garrison of six cohorts, under the command of Caius
Gallonius, a Roman knight, the friend of Domitius, who had sent
him thither to look after an inheritance of his; conveyed all
the arms, public and private, to Gallonius's house; spoke every
where disadvantageously of Caesar; declared several times from
his tribunal, that Caesar had been worsted, and that many of his
soldiers had gone over to Afranius, as he was well assured by
undoubted testimonies: by all which, having struck a terror into
the Roman citizens of that province, he obliged them to promise
him one hundred and n