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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 268132" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter VII -- Enemy of the StateIn full armor, helmet, and scarlet general's cloak now -- there was no longer any need to disguise himself -- Caesar walked to where Colonel Pollio waited with a horse for his commander.  The first of Caesar's reinforcements...were only several days march away....Any other general would have waited for them to arrive so that he entered Italy with at least three legions.  But not Caesar.As the author suggests, Julius Caesar lives by the same motto as Patton: Audacity, audacity, always audacity.  He's willing to invade Italy with just one legion -- even though Rome knows he's coming.Everyone expects him to wait at the Rubicon for his three legions to gather.  He waltzes in early -- and Pompey doesn't really have ten legions ready; he has his elite 1st, the 15th, a legion that used to serve under Caesar, and muster rolls to fill another eight [legions] with draftees and veterans eligible for recall from retirement.</blockquote>