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An excellent critic says "Quo saepius eum perlegebam, eo magis me detinuit cum dicendi nitor et brevitas tum perspicacitas iudicii sensusque vorax et ad agendum accommodatus, quibus omnibus genuinam repraesentat nobis civis Romani imaginem."

We are so near the west pole, that our longitudes are as long as any wise man would wish and somewhat longer. I scarce know any adage more grateful than 'Grata brevitas'." Mr. Cotton was no exception to this rule, but his hearers would not have had him shorter.

He notices the tall stature of both Gauls and Germans, which was at first the cause of some terror to his soldiers, and some contemptuousness on their part. "Plerisque hominibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum suorum brevitas nostra contemptui est." Caesar himself was of commanding presence, great bodily endurance, and heroic personal daring.

Caesar issued it under the unpretending name of Commentarii "notes" on the events of his campaigns, which might be useful as materials for history; but there was no exaggeration in the splendid compliment paid it a few years later by Cicero, that no one in his senses would think of recasting a work whose succinct, perspicuous, and brilliant style pura et inlustris brevitas has been the model and the despair of later historians.