If Caesar and Antonius by contrast are treated rather leniently, the reason may be discovered in the character and opinions of the historian Pollio—a Republican, but a partisan of Caesar and of Antonius. […] Another eminent historian was also constrained to omit the period of the Triumvirate when he observed that he could not treat his subject with freedom and with veracity. […] Mytilene was in the clientela of Pompeius: Theophanes of that city was his friend, domestic historian and political agent. 2 But Caesar, too, had his partisans in the cities of Hellas, augmented by time and success. 3 Pompeius constantly employed freedmen, like the financier Demetrius of Gadara. 4 Caesar rivalled and surpassed the elder dynast: he placed three legions in Egypt under the charge of a certain Rufinus, the son of one of his freedmen. 5 Such in brief was the following of Caesar, summarily indicated and characterized by the names of representative members senators, knights and centurions, business men and provincials, kings and dynasts.