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During his account of the war against Pompey (Bellum Civile), Caesar is careful to present himself not only as an enemy (and conqueror) of Pompey (as we have seen in an earlier module), but also as a friend to Rome at large. Pompey is a pretender and his supporters are merely in error; real Romans side with Caesar. The narrator suggests that the Romans people themselves agree with this position by telling tale after tale of cities spontaneously abandoning Pompey and defecting to Caesar as his army approaches.