 He prosecuted the war vigorously against Caesar, but the town was eventually taken, and Ahenobarbus escaped in the only vessel that was able to get away from the town.Ahenobarbus then proceeded east and joined Pompey in Thessaly, and proposed that, after the war, all senators who had remained neutral should be brought to trial.Cicero, whom he branded as a coward, was not a little afraid of him.