OBSERVATIONS.
THe multiplicity of occasions and troubles which happen to such as have the ordering of any businesses of import, doth make that of Plinie often remembred;* 1.1 Veteribus negot••••s no∣va accr••scunt, nec tamen priora peraguntur; tot nexibus, tot quasi catenis, majus indies occupationum agmen extenditur: New busi∣nesses come in the neck of old, and yet the first are not dispatched: with so many tyes and chains as it were, is the troup of businesses every day made longer and longer. For albeit Pompey had now spent his malice, and was no more to appear in Armes against Caesar: yet his hap was by slying, to draw him (as it were by way of revenge) into a place, where he was necessari∣ly to be intangled in a dangerous war.
To th••se prodigies here mentioned, may be added that of Aulus Gellius,* 1.2 that The same day the battell happened, there fell out a strange wonder at 〈◊〉〈◊〉: where a certain Priest called Cornelius, of Noble race and Holy life, sud∣dainly fell into an extasie, and said, he saw a great battell afar••e off, Darts and Piles she thick in the aire, some slying, and some pursuing, great slaughter, accompanied with many lamen∣table groans and cries: and in the end cried out, that Caesar had got the victory. For which he was m••••ked for the present, but afterwards held in great admiration.
Plinie maketh the small increase of Nilus to be a fore-teller of Pompey's death;* 1.3 Minimum∣que Pharsalico bello: veluti necem Magni, prod••g•••• quodam, slumine aversante: The least increase of Nilus was at the time of the Phar∣salia•••• battell: the very river prodigiously shew∣ing (as it were) a detestation of the murther of the Great Pompey.