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Quotation from The Civil War by Julius Caesar
“struggling moreover with a fatal pestilence, from their long confinement and change of victuals (for they all subsisted on old millet and damaged barley, which they had formerly provided and laid up in the public stores against an emergency of this kind”
The Civil War, Book II.22, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869)
The condition of besieged Massilia before its surrender, linking epidemic disease to confinement and spoiled stores.
Citation: "struggling moreover with a fatal pestilence, from their long confinement and change of victuals (for they all subsisted on old millet and damaged barley, which they had formerly provided and laid up in the public stores against an emergency of this kind" — Julius Caesar, The Civil War, Book II.22, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869). (id the-civil-war-q4)
Portrait: Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped), Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España, Public domain.
