These affairs being announced to Caesar in Italy, at the time when he understood that matters in the city had been reduced to a more tranquil state by the energy of Cneius Pompey, he set out for Transalpine Gaul.
His rebus in Italiam Caesari nuntiatis, cum iam ille urbanas res virtute Cn. Pompei commodiorem in statum pervenisse intellegeret, in Transalpinam Galliam profectus est.
After he had arrived there, he was greatly at a loss to know by what means he could reach his army.
Eo cum venisset, magna difficultate adficiebatur, qua ratione ad exercitum pervenire posset.
For if he should summon the legions into the province, he was aware that on their march they would have to fight in his absence;
Nam si legiones in provinciam arcesseret, se absente in itinere proelio dimicaturas intellegebat;
he foresaw too that if he himself should endeavor to reach the army, he would act injudiciously, in trusting his safety even to those who seemed to be tranquilized.
si ipse ad exercitum contenderet, ne eis quidem eo tempore qui quieti viderentur suam salutem recte committi videbat.