What was the relationship between Julius Caesar and his soldiers? We can imagine that relationship reading this quote, from the “De bello civili” book (III,90):

Exhorting the army to the battle, according to military use, and preaching his uninterrupted care for them, he first remembered that he could use the military as witnesses, with how much effort he had sought peace, how many negotiations he had initiated, in interviews through of Vatinius, with Scipio through Aulus Clodius, how much effort he had made under Orico to obtain the sending of the ambassadors from Libone. He had always wanted to save the soldiers’ blood and not deprive the republic of either of the two armies. After the prayer took place, with the eager and ardent soldiers wanting to fight, he gave the trumpet signal.