Deed — 2 authors face each other below

crossing of the Rubicon

kind: crossing · 49 BCE — the editor’s frame · 4 mentions across 4 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Caesar's armed crossing of his province's boundary river, the act that opened the civil war.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Suetonius gives a supernatural summons — the wondrous piper seizing a trumpet and striding across — before 'The die is cast'; Plutarch gives a philosopher's hesitation, communed in silence with his friends. Whether heaven or calculation moved the army is exactly the kind of question the parallel columns exist for.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 49 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 49 BCE — date secure ·

January 49 BCE; all served accounts hang the civil war on this night march.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

32 the principal narrative The deliberation at the bank, reasoned rather than portended.

now that he drew nearer to the fearful step and was agitated by the magnitude of his ventures, he checked his speed. Plut. Caesar 32

Caesar · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

60 in passing The crossing as Rome received it — panic in the city, from Pompey's side.

when he was come to the river Rubicon, which was the boundary of the province allotted to him, he stood in silence and delayed to cross Plut. Pompey 60

Pompey · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Suetonius · one account

31–32 the principal narrative The paused column, the apparition, and the proverb.

overtaking his cohorts at the river Rubicon, which was the boundary of his province, he paused for a while Suet. Jul. 31

On a sudden there appeared hard by a being of wondrous stature and beauty, who sat and played upon a reed Suet. Jul. 32

The Deified Julius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Caesar — a candidate entry Julius Caesar — 2 episodes shared Cato — a candidate entry Cato the Younger — 1 episode shared Favonius — 1 episode shared Hortensius — 1 episode shared Pollio — a candidate entry Pompey — 1 episode shared Tullus — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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