They did not mind. 1 Some lived remote and secure in the enjoyment of hereditary estates, content with the petty dignity of municipal office in the towns of Italy. […] In the West, in Africa and throughout Asia, towns, provinces and kings were bound to the imperator of the Roman People by personal ties of allegiance. […] Caesar the proconsul won to his person the towns of Gallia Cisalpina and the tribal princes of Gaul beyond the Alps. […] Campania, again, a prosperous region, could show Marian and Caesarian connexions in towns like Puteoli, Cales and Nuceria. […] The Liberators departed from Rome early in April, and took refuge in the small towns in the neighbourhood of the capital.