In some way or other most of the consuls and governors of military provinces gain admittance to the narrative. […] Of the forces that lay behind or beyond it, next to the noble families the knights were the most important. […] But that was not the plea which Caesar himself valued most it was his personal honour. […] The views of Sternkopf will here be accepted for the most part. […] Possibly true of Pinarius, most unlikely for Pedius, cf.