He crossed the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cis-alpine Gaul from Italy. Everywhere he was received as the "friend of the people." Without difficulty Caesar entered Rome and Pompey fled to Greece Caesar followed him and defeated his followers near Pharsalus. Pompey sailed across the Mediterranean and escaped to Egypt. When he landed he was murdered by order of young king Ptolemy. A few days later Caesar arrived. He found himself caught in a trap. Both the Egyptians and the Roman garrison which had remained faithful to Pompey, attacked his camp.
于是，他率軍渡過分隔阿爾卑斯高盧行省和意大利的魯比康河，向羅馬挺進(jìn)。所過之處，老百姓將他當(dāng)作"人民之友"來熱烈歡迎。他一舉攻人羅馬，龐培被迫逃到希臘。悄撒率軍追擊，在法爾薩拉附近擊敗龐培及其追隨者。龐培渡過地中海，逃往埃及。當(dāng)他登陸后，年輕的埃及國王托勒密命人暗殺了他。幾天后，愷撒也抵達(dá)埃及，隨即發(fā)現(xiàn)自己落入了一個陰謀的陷阱。埃及人和仍忠于龐培的羅馬駐軍聯(lián)合向他發(fā)動攻擊。
Fortune was with Caesar. He succeeded in setting fire to the Egyptian fleet. Incidentally the sparks of the burning vessels fell on the roof of the famous library of Alexandria (which was just off the water front,) and destroyed it. Next he attacked the Egyptian army, drove the soldiers into the Nile, drowned Ptolemy, and established a new government under Cleopatra, the sister of the late king. Just then word reached him that Pharnaces, the son and heir of Mithridates, had gone on the war-path. Caesar marched northward, defeated Pharnaces in a war which lasted five days, sent word of his victory to Rome in the famous sentence "veni, vidi, vici," which is Latin for "I came, I saw, I conquered," and returned to Egypt where he fell desperately in love with Cleopatra, who followed him to Rome when he returned to take charge of the government, in the year 46.
不過。愷撒很走運(yùn)。他成功地焚毀了埃及艦隊。可不巧的是，大火迸出的火星落在埃及著名的亞歷山大圖書館的屋頂上（它正好位于碼頭邊），將這座珍藏著無數(shù)古代典籍的建筑付之一炬。摧毀埃及海軍后，愷撒回過頭來進(jìn)攻埃及陸軍，將驚慌潰逃的士兵趕進(jìn)尼羅河，托勒密本人也溺水身亡，隨即建立了一個以已故國王的姐姐克婁帕特拉為首的新政府。此時又有消息傳來，米特拉達(dá)特斯的兒子兼繼承人法那西斯準(zhǔn)備發(fā)動戰(zhàn)爭，為自殺的父親復(fù)仇。愷撒立刻揮師北上，持續(xù)作戰(zhàn)五晝夜，打敗了法那西斯。在給元老院的捷報中，他為世人留下了一句名言，"veni，vidi，vici"，意思是"我來了，我看見了，我征服了！"然后愷撒返回埃及，不可救藥地墜入情網(wǎng)，拜倒在女王克婁帕特拉魅力非凡的裙下。公元46年，愷撒攜克婁帕特拉一起返回羅馬，接掌政權(quán)。
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