Pompeius, threatened in his dignitas, with his acta needing ratification and loyal veterans clamorous for recompense, was constrained to a secret compact. […] To loyal support of Cato, Ahenobarbus and Brutus joined a sacred vendetta against Pompeius. […] The patricians were loyal to tradition without being fettered by caste or principle. […] Gaul remained loyal during the Civil War. […] Etruria and Umbria, though wavering, had remained loyal to Rome: the propertied classes had good reason to fear a social revolution.