Rubicon nightmaresMany soldiers encamped with Caesar were Romans and although some of them tried to play down what they were about to do, almost everyone knew that the next morning, when they crossed the border into Rome, they would become enemies of the state.
Some preferred to keep watch outside their tents before the embers of the fire, discussing the consequences of what they were about to do, others played it down and talked about non-existent agreements between Caesar and the newly elected consuls to permit them to cross and reach a peaceful agreement in Rimini.
Most tried to sleep for a few hours, but it was a restless charged sleep that, quiet as it seemed, could be sensed throughout the camp.
Someone while he was trying to sleep began to pray to lares and penates116 to forgive
