[sect. 2]
ostentare crebro solebat: cf. Intr. 79.
Italia: for ex Italia. Cicero never omits ex with names of countries, and, with the exception of one passage in Caesar (B. C. 3.58), perhaps the construction does not occur in prose again until we reach Silver Latin.
circumvallato: a dative. Pompey was surrounded by Caesar's forces; cf. Caes. B. C. 3.42 ff.
animum adverte : for animadverte, a Plautine usage.
illud te peto : cf. quod [gap in text] hortatur, Ep. XXXVII. 1n. and Intr. 83a.