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Quotation from The Civil War by Julius Caesar

“that they themselves were not in good health from their confinement within so narrow a compass, from the noisome smell, the number of carcasses, and the constant fatigue to them, being men unaccustomed to work, and labouring under a great want of water”

Julius Caesar (spoken by Caesar (narrator), reporting deserters)

The Civil War, Book III.49, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869)

Portrait of Julius Caesar

Deserters describe sickness in Pompey's crowded lines, where Caesar had dammed or diverted the streams.

Citation: "that they themselves were not in good health from their confinement within so narrow a compass, from the noisome smell, the number of carcasses, and the constant fatigue to them, being men unaccustomed to work, and labouring under a great want of water" — Julius Caesar, The Civil War, Book III.49, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869). (id the-civil-war-q7)

Portrait: Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped), Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España, Public domain.

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