The Rubicon MalanotteArriving at the agreed point at night, Caesar found the camp that welcomed him with the cohorts of legionaries that had been sent before, they had lit a fire with subdued flames and set up a tent for him heated with embers.
A wooden bridge stood before them that crossed the Rubicon.
They were armed on the final and impassable border and on the other side stood Rome.
The guide told Caesar that that the small bridge was a passage that peasants and fishermen used to cross to go to Rimini, while on the other side there was no red fence, because they were a few hundred meters from the beach.
The river was swollen and its waters cold, because of the melting snow from the Apennines.
In the distance the sound of the waves on the sea could be heard carried by the fresh, sa
