Lucius Nasidius

Family: Pompeian · Role: fleet commander · First appears: The Civil War, Book II, 1–8

Life events

Cneius Pompey sent Lucius Nasidius with a fleet to assist Lucius Domitius and the Massilians.(The Civil War, Book II, 1–8)
- With: Pompey
- “Lucius Nasidius, being sent by Cneius Pompey with a fleet of sixteen sail, a few of which had beaks of brass, to the assistance of Lucius Domitius and the Massilians,”
Lucius Nasidius seized a ship from the docks at Messana.(The Civil War, Book II, 1–8 · 📍 Messana)
- “making the nobles and senate take flight with the sudden terror, carried off one of their ships out of dock.”
Lucius Nasidius arrived at Massilia and urged Domitius and the Massilians to fight Brutus's fleet again.(The Civil War, Book II, 1–8 · 📍 Massilia)
- “Having joined this to his other ships, he made good his voyage to Massilia, and, having sent in a galley privately, acquaints Domitius and the Massilians of his arrival, and earnestly encourages them to hazard another battle with Brutus's fleet with the addition of his aid.”
Lucius Nasidius's ships left the fight, and one escaped with him.(The Civil War, Book II, 1–8)
- “But Nasidius's ships were of no use, and soon left the fight;”
Lucius Nasidius and the surviving ships made for Hither Spain.(The Civil War, Book II, 1–8 · 📍 Hither Spain)
- “all that escaped made the best of their way to Hither Spain, but one of the rest was sent forward to Massilia for the purpose of bearing this intelligence,”

commander: Pompey “In the meantime, Lucius Nasidius, being sent by Cneius Pompey with a fleet of sixteen sail, a few of which had beaks of brass, to the assistance of Lucius Domitius and the Massilians, passed the straits of Sicily without the knowledge or expectation of Curio, and, putting with his fleet into Messana, and making the nobles and senate take flight with the sudden terror, carried off one of their ships out of dock.”
friends with Lucius Domitius “In the meantime, Lucius Nasidius, being sent by Cneius Pompey with a fleet of sixteen sail, a few of which had beaks of brass, to the assistance of Lucius Domitius and the Massilians, passed the straits of Sicily without the knowledge or expectation of Curio, and, putting with his fleet into Messana, and making the nobles and senate take flight with the sudden terror, carried off one of their ships out of dock.”
enemies with Decimus Brutus “Therefore, of the number of the ships not one was lost: of the fleet of the Massilians five were sunk, four taken, and one ran off with Nasidius: all that escaped made the best of their way to Hither Spain, but one of the rest was sent forward to Massilia for the purpose of bearing this intelligence, and when it came near the city, the whole people crowded out to hear the tidings, and on being informed of the event, were so oppressed with grief, that one would have imagined that the city had been taken by an enemy at the same moment.”

Extracted from the original text of Caesar's Commentaries — The Gallic War and The Civil War. Made with Rho MD.