Plut. Ant. 65.5

Life of Antony 65.5

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Antony

65.5

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

5When Caesar saw this he was delighted, and ordered his right wing to row backwards, wishing to draw the enemy still farther out from the gulf and the narrows, and then to surround them with his own agile vessels and come to close quarters with ships which, owing to their great size and the smallness of their crews, were slow and ineffective.