Rome

[Caesar's resolution.]

Caesar does not seem to have been much disheartened and depressed by his misfortunes. He possessed in his early life more than the usual share of buoyancy and light-heartedness of youth, and he went away from Rome to enter, perhaps, upon years of exile and wandering, with a determination to face boldly and to brave the evils and dangers which surrounded him, and not to succumb to them.

[His person and character.]

[Caesar aspires to be a soldier.] [His success and celebrity.]

The Grandeur and Failure of its Civilization

by John Lord

 

Epochs of Ancient History

by A.H. Beesley

1921

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