ABSTRACT
Scholarly discussion of the Pompeians’ portrayal in the Bellum Civile mostly rests on their description in BC III, especially the account of their camp at Pharsalus. is in turn bolsters a common and prevalent assumption that Caesar regards the Pompeians as barbarian ‘others’.2 I suggest that in BC I Caesar’s judgement of the Pompeians diers from that in the nal book and stresses other aspects of their conduct, especially as reected in the description of Pompey himself.
