Done to a turn, for I superintended the cooking of it myself: It was a little Gallician of my own raising, may it please your Holiness, and the flesh was as white as an egg-shell, as indeed Donna Elvira told me herself.
Meanwhile, Rome had already pushed its northern boundaries to the foot of the Alps and was looking over the Alps into southern Gaul, modern day France. This would be a potential second point of conflict with Carthage.
Instead, in January forty nine, Cesar brought down his legions from Gaul, crossed the Rubicon river, and started the Civil War of forty eight to forty six BC.
Sometimes Roman provincial leaders seceded from the Roman Empire as did Posthumous in Gaul or they even established their own empire as Ordinadus in Zenobia did on the fringes of Western Syria.