21The Roman senate, on learning of these successes, decreed sacrifices to the gods and cessation from business, with festival, for fifteen days, a greater number than for any victory before.38Quod ante id tempus accidit nulli (Caesar, B. G. ii. 35, 4). For the danger was seen to have been great when so many nations at once had broken out in revolt, and because Caesar was the victor, the good will of the multitude towards him made his victory more splendid. Caesar himself, after settling matters in Gaul, again spent the winter3957-56 B.C. Cf. the Pompey, li. 3 f. in the regions along the Po, carrying out his plans at Rome.