Plut. Caes. 24.3

Life of Caesar 24.3

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Caesar

24.3

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

3Caesar deceived them by avoiding battle continually, and when he had found a place suitable for one who was fighting against many with few, fortified a camp, where he kept his men altogether from fighting and forced them to increase the height of their ramparts and the defences of their gates as though they were afraid. His strategy thus led the enemy to despise him, until at last, when their boldness led them to attack in scattered bands, he sallied out, routed them, and destroyed many of them.