After a number of days with both armies setting up in battle array but neither advancing to attack, Caesar broke camp to move on. All the soldiers, they were to say, were worn out with Caesar’s incessant campaigns, they suspected him of seeking the monarchy, they would all desert him if it came to a conflict between him and Pompey, and all they wanted was to leave Caesar’s command, come home to Italy and serve under Pompey. The campaign of Crassus against Parthia was disastrous. The triumvirate only has Julius Caesar remain. (Indeed, the poem is often called Pharsalia.) Not having enough strength to oppose the legions of Caesar in Italy, Pompey got to Greece, where he managed to gather a large army. Pompey had been the son-in-law of Caesar. The constitution had been assailed by all the leading chieftains, and even Cicero could only give vent to his despair and indignation in impotent lamentations. The news created factional discord and unrest in Rome as it was thought that the death brought the end of the ties between Caesar and Pompey. Caesar stayed in Egypt for several months. Increasing tension between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) after the death of Marcus Licinius Crassus soon degenerated into military conflict. He had upset the people of the council and the political people of Rome. More about him in the second book. o The tribunes wanted compromise with Caesar o the senate supported Pompey o Cicero took Pompey’s position; he viewed Caesar as a tyrant and wanted to get rid of him • Describe Caesar’s treatment of the Gauls during his campaigns? [47] The following year, Crassus, his son Publius and most of his army were annihilated by the Parthians at Carrhae. Likewise, it seemed that many of the senators in Rome were not prepared to be sent out as peace negotiators, in spite of Caesar's proposals (Plutarch Caesar 35). 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