Martina vežba

Caesar, observing his former custom, had placed the tenth legion on the right, the ninth on the left, although it was very much

weakened by the battles at Dyrrachium. He placed the eighth legion so close to the ninth, as to almost make one of the two, and ordered them to support

one another. He drew up on the field eighty cohorts, making a total of twenty-two thousand men.
He left two cohorts to from each of the legions composing the third line, formed of them a fourth line, and opposed them to Pompey's cavalry, and, acquainting them with his wishes, admonished them that the success of that day depended on their courage. At the same time he ordered the third line, and the entire army not to charge without his command: that he would give the signal whenever he wished them to do so.