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He was placed over the library which Caesar built for public use, an appointment equally complimentary to Varro and honourable to Caesar. Antony, however, incapable of the generosity of his chief, placed Varro's name on the list of the proscribed, at a time when the old man was over seventy years of age, and had long ceased to have any weight in politics.
We want all the "state papers" and political correspondence of the day not Cicero's letters only, but those of Caesar and Pompey and Lentulus, and much information besides that was never trusted to pen or paper in order to lay down with any accuracy the course which a really unselfish patriot could have taken.
In all great affections there is one peculiarity; if one loves a person, one gets to the point of changing that person to an idol inside oneself, and from that moment it seems that the person divides into the unreal idol, which is like a false picture of the adored one, and the living being, who resembles the idolized object very slightly. Caesar found something absurd in being loved like that.
Caesar took him and sent him to his father, making this entry in the records, that Caesar returned to its father Nero the child borne by Livia, his own wife.
An Embassage To Caesar; And How Caesar Confirmed Herod's Testament.
"Caesar tells me that he is going up to London to-night." "Oh, he told you that, did he?" "Yes; you wished him to tell me?" "Perhaps." Scaife laughed louder. "You want to prove to me," said John, slowly, "that you are the stronger?" "Perhaps." Scaife laughed. "Well, if I surrender, if I admit that you are the stronger, that you have defeated me, won't that be enough?" "Eh? I don't quite take you."
"You are the one that may have to pay by going to prison," replied the inspector. "Just try to arrest me, you poor fool, and I'll shoot your head off!" The police inspector jumped up from the table where he was seated, and, as he went out, he let one of the ballots fall. Caesar looked over the men who were with the police inspector; one of them was "Sparkler."
A certain settlement worker in New York City in charge of a club of fourteen- to eighteen-year-old boys tried to arouse an interest in literature, using one plan after another without success. Finally the class undertook to read Julius Caesar with the object of selecting the best parts and acting them out in public.
He, however, once more, upon some unfavorable stories, taking offense against Caesar, set sail with three hundred ships for Italy, and, being refused admittance to the port of Brundusium, made for Tarentum.
Assume, to fix our ideas, a universe composed of two things only: imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay, and me, saying 'Caesar really existed. Most persons would naively deem truth to be thereby uttered, and say that by a sort of actio in distans my statement had taken direct hold of the other fact.
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