We  loibt  inexorably  open  this  state
of  relations,  as  existing  between  Cicero
»nd  the  two  coqibatants.  We  reftise  to
qoit  this  position.  We  sfllrffl  that,
at  a  lime  when  Gloero  argued  upon
the  purposes  of  Cnsar  In  a  matmef
confessed! V  conjectural,  ou  the  other
bund,  whh  regard  to  Pompey,  from
oonlldeBtlal  communications,  he  re*
ported  it  as  a  dreadful  discovery,  that
inere  destruction  to  Rome  was,  upon
Pompey's  policy,  the  catastrophe  of
the  war.  bsesar,  he  mtgbt  persnadf
faknself,  would  revolutiunfse  Rome;
but  Pompey,  he  knew  tn  confldence*
meant  to  l^ave  no  Rome  In  existence.
